How do you open your Banana?

24

Replies

  • sc1572
    sc1572 Posts: 2,309 Member
    top/stem :D
  • kak2m4
    kak2m4 Posts: 167 Member
    From the top. How do you open it from the bottom?? (Other have probably asked this, I didn't look through the thread...) :-)
  • wickedcricket
    wickedcricket Posts: 1,246 Member
    what!? see THIS is why I'm not married. NOBODY to tell me I'm peeling fruit wrong. I'd have shoved that banana .. oh well nevermind he's YOUR husband
  • l_oudman
    l_oudman Posts: 373 Member
    From the top, with teeth (easiest way for me). To shake things up I'll try it from the bottom next time.
  • teeley
    teeley Posts: 477 Member
    I am in the middle of teaching my kids to open their own banana's. I just thought everyone opened them from the top, didn't know there was another way....that being said,

    Everytime my kids open them, they grab the steam and yank it back, one part will split, they will just keep going and the next thing you know the banana has squished out the little slit!!! Then they don't want it....but today is the start of a new day

    from here on out banana's will be peeled from the bottom, I will have to pick some up on my way home, kinda excited....hehehe


    edit** this is probably the most informative thread of the day!!! Thank you
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,412 Member
    Wow! I'm so uneducated! How does one get it started, if you open it bottom-first?

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

    :)

    Oh! That's fantastic! Thanks! I've learned something fun and useful today!

    And the guy had on his monkey jammies. Too awesome.
  • swaymyway
    swaymyway Posts: 428 Member
    Never even seen or heard of it being opened from the bottom before, I've always peeled from the top. Will have to give the other way a go lol
  • NoAdditives
    NoAdditives Posts: 4,251 Member
    Wow! I'm so uneducated! How does one get it started, if you open it bottom-first?

    That's what I'm wondering! I had no idea it was even possible to do it from the bottom.
  • I did not know that there were other ways to peel a banana.
  • michellecorvin
    michellecorvin Posts: 36 Member
    I like it on top. I mean I start at the top. ;D
  • iqnas
    iqnas Posts: 445 Member
    Top! I didn't even know people opened their banana from the bottom!
  • MMarvelous
    MMarvelous Posts: 1,067 Member
    From the top if I plan to eat it all. If I just want half now and the other half later, I simple break it in half. No need to dirty a knife :-)
  • paigemarie93
    paigemarie93 Posts: 778 Member
    Top, I never even knew that it was possible to open it from the bottom.
  • paigemarie93
    paigemarie93 Posts: 778 Member
    Wow! I'm so uneducated! How does one get it started, if you open it bottom-first?
    Yeah, I'm wondering the same, 'cos when you do it from the top, you just snap the stem & hey presto, never even heard of anyone opening their banana from the bottom.
  • Aww man, I was hoping we were talking dirty here. I like to keep my bananas guessing what way I'm gonna eat em... Sometimes I start at the tip, sometimes at the bottom and sometimes right in the middle. Most of the time I go for the plums first tho, lol.
  • From the top. I know it is easier and the correct way to open it from the bottom but with 40+ years of doing it one way its habit.
  • Wow! I'm so uneducated! How does one get it started, if you open it bottom-first?

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

    :)

    Oh! That's fantastic! Thanks! I've learned something fun and useful today!

    And the guy had on his monkey jammies. Too awesome.

    That's a must see video for all of us who have always opened bananas from the top!
  • Becky1971
    Becky1971 Posts: 979 Member
    My son told me the right way is from the bottom, I thought it was crazy, doesn't even look like it should be opened from there. But I got so tired of trying to open bananas from the top that wouldn't open without mushing the heck out of my banana, so opening from the bottom. Now it's the only way I open it. It opens right up without any problems, so I'm convinced my son was right. lol
  • mdj1501
    mdj1501 Posts: 388 Member
    I LOVE peanut butter on my naners, but honestly I never gave thought to opening it from the bottom?? lol I will try to remember to try that next time tho!!:laugh:
  • Ninatoots
    Ninatoots Posts: 192 Member
    My husband is always telling me the correct way to do things, like the correct way to boil an egg!:grumble:

    I never knew before the right way to peel a banana !

    I wash mine first though.

    Nina
  • Dilfster
    Dilfster Posts: 416 Member
    top
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,412 Member
    Wow! I'm so uneducated! How does one get it started, if you open it bottom-first?

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

    :)

    Oh! That's fantastic! Thanks! I've learned something fun and useful today!

    And the guy had on his monkey jammies. Too awesome.

    That's a must see video for all of us who have always opened bananas from the top!


    Yes, it's a short video, and MONKEY JAMMIES. Priceless.


    Plus, how often do you learn something simple and useful like this??
  • Nos150
    Nos150 Posts: 150
    My husband is always telling me the correct way to do things, like the correct way to boil an egg!:grumble:

    I never knew before the right way to peel a banana !

    I wash mine first though.

    Nina

    the only reason that it bothered me is because my mother said the same thing not a week earlier!
  • domsmoms
    domsmoms Posts: 174 Member
    Top. I had never even considered opening it from the bottom. Now I'm curious to try.
  • kdc0587
    kdc0587 Posts: 166 Member
    Stem to nub
  • atjays
    atjays Posts: 797 Member
    I am in shock that so many open it from the bottom. I've never heard of doing it that way before... definitely going to have to try that tomorrow lol
  • BumInTheSun73
    BumInTheSun73 Posts: 37 Member
    I never even thought it was possible to start at the bottom. Will definitely be trying this next time. Thanks for the link to that video, learned something new!
  • _Ben
    _Ben Posts: 1,608 Member
    From the nup, because thats how I was told monkeys do it
  • annie7hudds
    annie7hudds Posts: 199 Member
    Woah, wait a minute. You PEEL the banana? :noway:
    Ha ha ha - good answer :):laugh:
  • annie7hudds
    annie7hudds Posts: 199 Member
    Reluctantly! I don't like bananas - l do eat them occasionally - emergency, portable snack before a run. But I pull a face..:sick: whilst eating it..


    I had never beforeheard of opening a banana from the bottom.

    I shall impress the boys by showing them the 'new' way :)
This discussion has been closed.