How do you open your Banana?

Nos150
Nos150 Posts: 150
edited November 12 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)

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  • horsesandhipbones
    horsesandhipbones Posts: 53
    From the top! Far too difficult to do it from the bottom...
  • netsirk12
    netsirk12 Posts: 220 Member
    Bottom you silly pants, its how monkeys do it! :)
  • HarlCarl
    HarlCarl Posts: 266 Member
    Woah, wait a minute. You PEEL the banana? :noway:
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    Bottom. But your husband is wrong, there isn't a right and wrong way to do it.
  • WhiteCoc0
    WhiteCoc0 Posts: 160 Member
    I totally do it from the top. So easy!
  • CoryIda
    CoryIda Posts: 7,870 Member
    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
    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
    From the bottom. I thought everyone knew that!
  • Tonnina
    Tonnina Posts: 979 Member
    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: 1,298 Member
    i cut the top off and slit it down the middle with a knife.
  • lazatin
    lazatin Posts: 452 Member
    From the bottom...it is so much easiet!
  • netsirk12
    netsirk12 Posts: 220 Member
    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
    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
    ...from the bottom... just easier for me that way. prevents squishy-ness.
  • runnercheryl
    runnercheryl Posts: 1,314 Member
    From the bottom. The monkeys know best, and it's so much easier.
  • catherine4211
    catherine4211 Posts: 944 Member
    From the bottom
  • iKristine
    iKristine Posts: 288 Member
    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
    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
    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
    I open my banana with my hands.
  • hiker282
    hiker282 Posts: 983 Member
    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...

    Oh my gosh, minin mouth-gasm. Peanut butter and banana is right there under beanut butter and chocolate. Yum, I think I'm having toast with peanut butter and banana and this morning.

    PS...I always thought you opened it from the top...never had anybody tell me differently. I think I'll start a new habit today!
  • emmabrackpool
    emmabrackpool Posts: 61 Member
    always from the top but i used to work with a guy who opened it along the side using a knife and fork on a plate - very posh!
  • jandk09
    jandk09 Posts: 99 Member
    lol, top but chimps do it from the bottom :))
  • Lovinglife12
    Lovinglife12 Posts: 110
    I open it from the top. Hmm, I never really thought about it...lol
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,412 Member
    Wow! I'm so uneducated! How does one get it started, if you open it bottom-first?
  • freezerburn2012
    freezerburn2012 Posts: 273 Member
    From the bottom so that I have a handle!
    I grasp the handle in my right hand and use the thumbnail on my left hand to tear open the bottom of the banana.

    And then I devour it like a monkey.
  • Canis8Lupus
    Canis8Lupus Posts: 3
    How ironic. I have to make Banana muffins today.

    I've never even fathomed the idea of opening a banana from the bottom o.O.....

    I'm totally going to have to try it.
    Then I'll be more suitable to input about this topic.
  • AZKristi
    AZKristi Posts: 1,801 Member
    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.

    Me too! I only eat bananas when they are still a lil green, so a knife is pretty much a must for me.
  • Nos150
    Nos150 Posts: 150
    Wow! I'm so uneducated! How does one get it started, if you open it bottom-first?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBJV56WUDng

    :)
  • neverstray
    neverstray Posts: 3,845 Member
    WTH. Never heard of opening them from the bottom.
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