Supermarket triggers. Leave The Bananas Alone!!

The people that remove the stalks off avocados so they can see what colour the avocado is. Remove the stalks is what causes them to go that horrible grey colour. I buy the unripe with stalks and ripen at home.

These are the sort of threads I live for.

Completely not the point of the thread but I was once bitten by a spider that came out of a bunch of bananas.

I check the fruit too. I'm not sorry. It's getting so expensive and quality is going down so quickly, that I want something decent for my money.

I don't damage things. But I do have a good look.

I have been going to supermarkets for decades, and have bought bananas many times, but I've never seen anyone loitering near the bananas long enough for a queue to start forming.

My mum will always test the grapes by eating one. She was scarred by a terrible incident in the 70s where she bought a sour bunch of grapes. She never got over it.

Hmm. Come on op, triggered is not the word, it irritates you more than it should that is what you mean.

Let’s save triggered for the ex soldier with ptsd when he or she hears fireworks and it “triggers” memories of the war zone they were in , or someone sitting next to an arguing couple in a restaurant and feeling an adrenaline surge as they are transported back to their awful childhood and their warring parents.

unless you are going to reveal some banana incident from childhood?

As someone who works in a supermarket, we know that some people do this because it's 'funny'. We've found bags of frozen peas 'hidden' behind the nappies, tins of peas carefully put in between tins of dogfood... yeah, Barry, it's hilarious that someone has to spend their time searching these things out to save wasteage which gets slapped onto the cost of your groceries...

Monkey and Grape experiment

This thread has really cheered me up on this freezing morning.

I like my bananas to have a tinge of green to them so that they ripen fully at home. They last longer that way!

You've never seen the ruckus when the zookeeper gives one gorilla a big banana and the other gorilla a medium sized one. Worse than EastEnders Christmas Specials.

I say good on you though I would have been tempted to pick it up and follow them in the hope I could sneak it back in their trolley at some point.

i can’t walk past the freezer section without looking for partially open lids to slide shut.

It’s just not that much of an issue in the grand scheme of things, is it?

Bananas are strange these days, green ones ripen inside without going yellow.

So do I. I was taught to inspect fruit and veg before buying. I am of a 'certain age demographic' and we used to do the shopping for our mothers from a very young age, so were expected to know how to check for bruises, under or over-ripeness, to avoid waste.

Of all fruit, bananas are the ones I'd least mind other people touching as they have a thick protective skin you don't eat. I'd be put off by people doing this with peaches or nectarines.

For me it’s the cunts who eat something without paying and just leave the wrapper on a shelf. I see that a lot in my local Sainsbury’s.

I'm not a bread squeezer, but I do like to examine the date labels and get the best one from the back. I usually have to put 2 pairs of glasses on to do this, which is a bit of a clue to my age. I don't poke bananas though.

Some of these replies are hilarious.

40 minutes!
No need to be so hasty!
If I'm buying bananas I bring my camping chair.

My local Waitrose still has PYO bakery, a deli counter where you can specify exactly how much you want and how you'd like it sliced, and a fresh fish and meat counter.

The Tesco here never reopened theirs after Covid, and everything is now prepacked. Consequently, I buy a lot less in there than I used to.

Oh I feel your pain on the fingers going too deep in the fruit and on the soft cucumbers 😫

My local supermarket had Satsuma's in last weekend for the first time this year. I was there for so long that I could have set up a tent tbh. I was checking every single bag for the greenest ones I could find to they would last. It worked though, I still have a bag of entirely green satsumas. Perfect😍

I don't know if it's just around me, but I find 'seasonal' fruit tends to be the worst for going rotten quickly or rotting in the store. I'm not sure why, but it's very off-putting

I hate it when people say TRIGGERED
Ridiculous

can I throw mine pet peeve in the mix...

I hate it when im in a queue at the till. person in front is every so carefully packing their shopping in the relevant bags. I can handle that, even though its delaying me.

but then, they start looking for their purse, phone, money, card etc to pay, delaying me even further. saying things like "oh where did I leave it" its like this is their first day on planet earth, did you not realise you would need this to pay mary? sometimes mary will apologise to the cashier for delaying them...

have your fooking money or method of payment ready mary before you reach the checkout.

Im sorry to say that I am this person. I’m very picky with fruit and they need to be thoroughly inspected to make sure I can eat them

So what age demographic are you talking about?