Supermarket triggers. Leave The Bananas Alone!!

The worst in supermarkets is couples on romantic strolls, holding hands in the middle of the aisle. Or families who take both parents and all the children..

People squeezing baguettes makes my stomach turn. I understand why, but I just don’t like to see it!

Don’t be ridiculous. Fruit and vegetables need to be touched to pick what’s ripe and not over/under ripe.

people are so used to supermarkets that they forget how to actually choose fruit and vegetables FFS.

I agree it love a "stalky" brocoli it is where the taste is.

She's missing out. The stalks are the best bit. Chop them up and put them in your pasta sauce.

It's normal in most countries I think. Most melons aren't ripe enough to be edible so I always sniff them. It's a good tip - you should try it!

Have you no idea tha amount of handling fruit/vegs goes through from farm to store? At least the bananas are peeled before you eat them. I hate when I see whole families wandering around aimlessly. Order online or have one parent shop the other at home with the kids.

The fruit on the supermarket shelve has already been man handled, mauled, pissed on by rodents in its transit to the supermarket shelve, seems a bit daft to get upset about a couple of squeezes of a banana skin.

Even worse are those people who stand with the chiller door open, blocking everyone else from grabbing something, as they have the 'what shall we have for dinner tonight' on the phone, even taking pictures so send for opinions!

I’ve heard of a banana queue—admittedly more in the context of Bonnie Blue, rather than John James Sainsbury.

I sniff tomatoes too. No smell = no flavour it seems.

Oh that takes me back almost 70 years when I would wander into the greenhouse and just stand inhaling the smell of the ripening tomatoes, my mother would do the same although she was unable to eat anything tomatoey. Even now I like to 'smell the greenhouse' on tomatoes!

It surprises me that you see this MORE with bananas than any other fruit. I'd think stone fruits, melons, pineapples, citrus, and perhaps pears would get handled most often. But I agree that bananas generally don't need to be squeezed and neither the bananas nor the squeezer nor the banana buyers who come after them will benefit.

People mindlessly poking them about when they don’t even intend to buy them. It would be odd for someone to fondle the bananas if they had no intention of buying bananas at all, but the shopper in your example considered and rejected the loose bananas and then bought other bananas instead. Presumably he might have bought the loose ones if they'd passed his touch test. Also, of course, he could have had bananas on his list but decided against them if NONE of them met his standards.

... usually by someone of a certain age demographic ...

What is the "age demographic"? I'm imagining teenagers, but not sure how much banana buying they routinely do.

Well from the poll it looks like most of you like buying fruit that someone else has messed about with and damaged. Yeah, sure you do…

That's really not the most logical conclusion from the poll results.

Not sure about the "making love" analogy where prodding and poking is involved...

Genuinely no. I actually do witness a tailback at the banana station frequently, so I do believe you. However as a careful picker of my bananas, I do think you’re overreacting need to get over it.

I wonder if instead of getting huffy you could try a different approach. Perhaps by asking them to stop fondling the fruit and get a wiggle on? Or just ramming your trolley into the back of their ankles? Or…the very innovative idea of politely asking them if you could just reach over and grab some?

There's a man who does a quick look for staff then whips out a penknife to cut his broccoli stalks in our Sainsburys...I quite admire his commitment! 😂

I’m immune suppressed so can’t risk it at all, but it’s just highlighted how bad it is.

I hate the people who don't queue at the entrance to the self service tills, but who decide to walk up behind you when you're using one and scanning your shopping, glowering and standing there impatiently waiting for you to finish. It's happened to me three times, all middle-aged men, and I could swing for them.

Just move the trolley yourself, if you wait for most people you will be there all day. Some peeps are so unaware of others around them. Standing in the middle of an aisle yakking about their operation and the clogging up till queue types, get on my bloody nerves. Patience to a point, with idiots and piss takers none.

Oh yes I have done this in the past and then I get tutted at or get an angry look because I've touched their precious trolley. I just dont understand why they cant just put it to the fucking side in the first place!

I often move their trolley for them. No one's biffed me on the nose yet

Oh no 😂

I do my food shopping online. Anything that can't be peeled or cooked, I order the version that comes wrapped in a packet so there's a barrier between my food and dirty strangers fingers.

Just move the trolley yourself, if you wait for most people you will be there all day. Some peeps are so unaware of others around them. Standing in the middle of an aisle yakking about their operation and the clogging up till queue types, get on my bloody nerves. Patience to a point, with idiots and piss takers none.

No, I think most of us just aren't really bothered, and think you're getting a bit overly worked up about a very minor irritation.

I buy bananas every week. I just pick up a bunch that look OK, personally, and I don't see the need for prodding or sniffing. But I've never had to come home without pristine bananas, so I don't think other people's banana-prodding is something that really affects me. Finding undamaged bananas really isn't a difficulty I experience in my life.

Not All Greengrocers Are Like This?

Buy the stuff on the top shelves, where nobody could possibly have sneezed on them.

Although I'm thinking of going to my local M&S later, & theirs doesn't go above chest height. In that case, buy from the bottom of the pile.