The Monkey End?

[Zak33]

I had NO IDEA a banana could be opened like that!!

I have been opening it at the stalk end for ...ever

I had NO IDEA that was even a thing!

And it turns out HALF our office knew about it and the other half... no idea at all like moi.

EVERY DAY is a school day

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Okay.



BTW,wait until you had different tasting bananas,which have a totally different texture and feel to the ones you normally get!

[Ferral]

So as the old saying goes : Monkeys can be taught!!!

[Ttaskmaster]

Always done it that way.
Wife was making banana pancakes (it's a Paleo diet thing) and, after laughing at her breaking several in a row from the stalk end, I felt compelled to teach her nature's way.

[Gerrard]

Knew about it, but never tried it myself.

[Zak33]

im still amazed....

it takes a lot to amaze me...

but this has genuinely done it.

How could I not know for over 40 years....?

[spacein_vader]

im still amazed....

it takes a lot to amaze me...

but this has genuinely done it.

How could I not know for over 40 years....?

I'm with you. Mind. Blown.

[Zak33]

chimps are FAR advanced compared to me.

How, the hell, did I NEVER EVER try to open a banana at the other end? even once...?

I mean.... I've opened coconuts with hammers, drills, bricks... and coconuts aren't daily food.

I've eaten apples with the stalk on... and I've spun them off.
I've peeled oranges and also sliced them and sucked out the juice and flesh.
I've peeled pineapples different ways.

so.. how with a binary combination of top or bottom.... stalk or monkey end... have i NEVER tried the other end?

brain......fondue

[Pob255]

Also considering that is the end the fruit pod which would naturally open if bananas where not such a strange mutant plant.

here's a fun bit of trivia
Q = Why doesn't banana flavoured stuff taste like banana's?
A = It does, but that species of Banana no longer exists.

[Zak33]

Also considering that is the end the fruit pod which would naturally open if bananas where not such a strange mutant plant.

here's a fun bit of trivia
Q = Why doesn't banana flavoured stuff taste like banana's?
A = It does, but that species of Banana no longer exists.

explain please

[Biscuit]

Also considering that is the end the fruit pod which would naturally open if bananas where not such a strange mutant plant.

here's a fun bit of trivia
Q = Why doesn't banana flavoured stuff taste like banana's?
A = It does, but that species of Banana no longer exists.

Bring back the banana flavoured bananas!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

explain please

Because like I said earlier there are far more varieties of Banana out there,but most bananas sold in Europe are of one or two varieties and others do taste different and have different textures and even the skins are different. Even the shape,etc is not the same. Its like with coconuts,did you realise there are different types?? Ones which are orange,for example??

Most commercially sold bananas are actually clones of each other and hence have very little genetic variability meaning they are very vulnerable to diseases,and as a result if one commerically available type of banana is suseceptible to a disease it is easy for all of it it to be wiped out. So if one earlier variety was wiped out,it means another probably replaced it and tasted a bit different.

In fact there is a major concern that the current popular banana varieties might be wiped out quite easily if a disease were to take hold:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...-a7953416.html

Bring back the banana flavoured bananas!

The bananas here are a tad meh tasting!

Miss the bananas I had abroad,but they are the kind which won't keep well being exported!

Its like the passion fruit here,they are not that great since they are picked when they are not fully ripened. Had wild ones and they taste so much better.

[Pob255]

explain please

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana This is the banana that banana flavour is supposed to taste like.
It nearly became extinct due to a fungal infection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_disease a new strain of the fungus is attacking the current banana, but is under control atm.
The Gros Michel banana is still alive in a few small and more remote places under stick quarantine.

The banana plant is a really an odd thing to start with and the fact that we only eat sterile mutant strains makes it stranger.

Because like I said earlier there are far more varieties of Banana out there

actually there's not that many esp of edible verities, however there are more than the single variety that we eat in Europe

[Galant]

I've tried the 'monkey end' thing and I don't find it easier than the other way I'd been doing it all my life. If anything it can be messy. Maybe I need more practise but I haven't been convinced.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana This is the banana that banana flavour is supposed to taste like.
It nearly became extinct due to a fungal infection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_disease a new strain of the fungus is attacking the current banana, but is under control atm.
The Gros Michel banana is still alive in a few small and more remote places under stick quarantine.

The banana plant is a really an odd thing to start with and the fact that we only eat sterile mutant strains makes it stranger.

actually there's not that many esp of edible verities, however there are more than the single variety that we eat in Europe

I lived in Asia for a bit,so trust me there are far more varities than you can get over there you can eat!! Looking at the UK there are not that many types,since many of the types of bananas you can get in Asia would be uneconomic to grow in quantity and are much more fragile,ie,not economic to transport here. People's definition of what they consider a banana here is very narrow,since you are only really getting large scale commercially grown breeds mostly from parts of South America and the Caribbean. Its the same with rice,and so on.

Most of the tropical fruit you get here also has been exported to Europe partially ripe and it does not taste the same!

Like I said I don't like the passion fruit here - the wild ones I had were much nicer.

[Pob255]

I lived in Asia for a bit,so trust me there are far more varities than you can get over there you can eat!!

I never said there where not more varieties, just far fewer in total compared to most other fruit, around 1,000 of banana (including plantains) vs 7,500 of apple

Just to clear this up a bit, all banana's sold in the UK are Cavendish variety and not just the same variety but from the same plant.
Ok it's not 1 singular plant but all of the bananas we get are from cuttings & splits made from one singular plant.
so they

And I'm well aware there are more types I've had a couple.
My nieces/nephews who grew up in Singapore find it weird that we only have one type of banana.