• livingcoder@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    You can just pinch the end of a banana to start peeling it. The effort required is far less than trying to overcome the ripping force of the stem.

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      4 months ago

      I just use my fingernail to make a small cut at the stem end and then it’s super easy to peel that back

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        4 months ago

        Bananas are the way they are through millenia of selective breeding, so there’s no reason to think that monkeys know anything we don’t. If pinching the bottom is easier than bending the stem, your banana isn’t ripe yet and doesn’t want to be eaten until later.

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            Yes. Every time, it’s gone less well than opening a banana from the stem end, unless the banana was horrendously underripe. I’ve never had the problem the alternative approach is claiming to fix unless I’ve intentionally opened the banana badly on purpose to prove a point about the problem really being people opening from the stem end incompetently.

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              While I can concede your point that it’s feasible and possibly even more practical to open from the stem, I gotta say that since switching to the other end years ago(because I saw a similar thread on reddit), it’s been super easy and I’ve had zero issues. The stem just has a higher rate of fucking up, but it’s not like either end will fully decimate the banana. Peeling properly after it’s opened is an easy fix either way.

    • Faresh@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      I don’t get the banana trick. What do I do after pinching? I just end up ripping through the skin of one while trying it out.