How do you open your Banana?

Options
Nos150
Nos150 Posts: 150
in Chit-Chat
So last night I opened a banana to eat and my husband told me that I was doing it wrong...

So that got me thinking, how do others open their bananas?

From the top (or stem)
Or
From the bottom (or nub)

Calories-in-Banana-1-1.jpg
«1345

Replies

  • horsesandhipbones
    horsesandhipbones Posts: 53
    Options
    From the top! Far too difficult to do it from the bottom...
  • netsirk12
    netsirk12 Posts: 220 Member
    Options
    Bottom you silly pants, its how monkeys do it! :)
  • HarlCarl
    HarlCarl Posts: 266 Member
    Options
    Woah, wait a minute. You PEEL the banana? :noway:
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    Options
    Bottom. But your husband is wrong, there isn't a right and wrong way to do it.
  • WhiteCoc0
    WhiteCoc0 Posts: 192 Member
    Options
    I totally do it from the top. So easy!
  • CoryIda
    CoryIda Posts: 7,887 Member
    Options
    I've heard you're supposed to open it from the bottom because that way you won't get those stringy things.

    I haven't tried it though. I'm strictly a top kind of banana opener.
  • Tonnina
    Tonnina Posts: 979 Member
    Options
    From the top, but if it's a little unripe and won't pull, I take a knife to it's neck (right a the bottom of the stem) and then peel it that way.
  • sjtreely
    sjtreely Posts: 1,014 Member
    Options
    From the bottom. I thought everyone knew that!
  • Tonnina
    Tonnina Posts: 979 Member
    Options
    Oh and I wanted to add that actually the way a banana grows, we do eat them upside down (If you eat them from the stem side first) since the grow upwards.
  • _snw_
    _snw_ Posts: 1,305 Member
    Options
    i cut the top off and slit it down the middle with a knife.
  • lazatin
    lazatin Posts: 452 Member
    Options
    From the bottom...it is so much easiet!
  • netsirk12
    netsirk12 Posts: 220 Member
    Options
    I've heard you're supposed to open it from the bottom because that way you won't get those stringy things.

    I haven't tried it though. I'm strictly a top kind of banana opener.

    It also helps avoid bruising the bananna. I worked in a kndergarden, taught the kids how to open it from the bottom and we never had to help them again with it.
  • eating4balance
    eating4balance Posts: 743 Member
    Options
    Top. If that doesn't work though I will resort to the bottom.

    I love informing people that that's how monkeys do it!
  • lisakyle_11
    lisakyle_11 Posts: 420 Member
    Options
    ...from the bottom... just easier for me that way. prevents squishy-ness.
  • runnercheryl
    runnercheryl Posts: 1,314 Member
    Options
    From the bottom. The monkeys know best, and it's so much easier.
  • catherine4211
    catherine4211 Posts: 944 Member
    Options
    From the bottom
  • iKristine
    iKristine Posts: 288 Member
    Options
    Brings new meaning to "monkey see monkey do".

    I always did the top, because no one showed me different, and I was not the wiser.

    I will try the bottom next time.
  • ChaosMoosie
    ChaosMoosie Posts: 77 Member
    Options
    Middle - Never like doing things like anyone else.... lol.. seriously, cut it in half, peel middle up and middle down and the end of the banana in both cases forms a handle/holder to keep your fingers nice and tidy (and you can peel it all the way up and down and still not drop it.

    If no knife, then from the top down halfway and work on it till the banana surrenders... lol.
  • bcampbell54
    bcampbell54 Posts: 932 Member
    Options
    I give them my scary look and yell at them in my dad voice, and they peel themselves.
    It's good to be a dad..

    If only they would slather themselves with peanut butter...
  • Lift_This_
    Lift_This_ Posts: 2,756 Member
    Options
    I open my banana with my hands.

Categories