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Mine is that I pour the milk before the cereal. people are always extremely confused by that.

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[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 71 points 10 months ago

I open bananas by pinching the bottom instead of ripping at the top (because it works better) and people act like I’m insane.

[-] SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml 43 points 10 months ago

That is how apes open bananas too.

Not that I'm implying anything of course.

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 48 points 10 months ago

See? The experts agree with me. Your bananas are upside down, not mine.

[-] CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

As someone who also has to argue about how wrong everyone else is...

I always tell them to imagine the iconic 'slipping on a banana peel' joke. Sometimes I make them draw it.

If you peel from the stem, it would never look like that. We have so many references that I challenge anyone to show me any media from any time period that shows the banana opened from the stem.

People learn the stem way as children because it's easier with limited motor skills and just never give it up.

[-] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

I looked into this and was unable to find quality evidence of such. I also open my bananas from the bananus

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

bananus

This shit is bananas.

[-] weaponG@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Technically, humans or homo sapiens sapiens are apes.

[-] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 9 points 10 months ago

I break bananas in half instead of peeling them

[-] wildcardology@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

You still have to peel them off right?

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

You just squeeze them like a gogurt

[-] lechatron@lemmy.today 8 points 10 months ago

Technically you're opening from the top.

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In a hand yes. ~~In a tree it's the bottom~~

Edit; No, I was wrong. Stick part always down

[-] lechatron@lemmy.today 11 points 10 months ago

Incorrect, bananas grow from the stem upwards making the stem end, where most people open them, the bottom, OP opens their bananas from the other end.

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[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Huh TIL thanks

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

How does this work with that nasty little stump at the bottom of the banana? (Which everybody knows is pure poison... TIL: AKA the 'bananus')

Easy to discard or no?

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I slice it a bit above the bananus and when you peel it it comes right out. Easy peasy

[-] QuesoBlanco@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Holy shit, “bananus,” I am crying from laughing right now. Phew, I needed that!

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it’s easy to discard if a little bananus bothers you. But I ain’t a’feared.

Also, I’m usually making smoothies so it’s not much of a concern.

Pro Tip: another advantage of peeling the gorilla-approved way is that you don’t have to separate them when peeling multiple. I usually eat a couple one-offs while the bunch is ripe and then, before the rest get brown and mushy, peel the rest to freeze for smoothies or banana bread or whatever. You can just peel several from the bananus side and save the step of separating them.

I worked in a restaurant that served Bananas Foster so that’s actually a pro tip. You may never have to quickly peel a whole bunch at once but cooks, busy parents, smoothie artisans, etc. frequently do.

[-] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 5 points 10 months ago

It's how the other great apes do it too, which as far as I'm concerned is pretty much the end of the issue. It really is one of those things where there's a right and wrong way to do it.

[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

I run my thumb up the middle splitting it into 3 slim bananas.

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