Supermarket triggers. Leave The Bananas Alone!!

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…

So what about the ones you put back? You’re not paying for those or eating them. Other people are, which is the whole point.

Why the heck did you name change! Nothing to be remotely embarrassed about

I’m wondering what the age demographic is, so I’m can watch out for it 🤔

Name Changed.

But, having been stung too many times by rotten fruit in the supermarket...when I do go now, I am a fruit fiddler and I am proud.

I turn packs of berries upside down (they often hide the rotten ones at the bottom I've found), I fondle bananas to make sure they're not already bruising, I squeeze my avocado and remove the little stem at the top and, if I am buying onions, I will sometimes peel back the first layer if I can by going from the nobbly bit at the top because I've had too many that were already rotten inside.

So yeah. People are well within their rights to be fruit fiddlers when supermarkets are consistently serving rotten fruit. Admittedly you can tell if bananas are or aren't rotten, but you can't see the bruises unless you closely inspect them.

Long live the fruit fiddlers.

I do miss the old fashioned green grocers where you asked for what you wanted and one of the staff picked, bagged and weighed it for you - rarely got damaged fruit that way and they were incredibly efficient (not efficient enough to offer prices as low as the supermarket, but the food was better quality).

I'm not buy fruit and veg that's bruised, unripe or or damaged if I can help it, though. So I'm probably one of the old people standing in front of the bananas, OP. Sorry.

I scared a young lad (staff) in Morrisons once by barking “do you know where this comes from?” while wielding a cucumber. I wanted to know if it was UK grown but he probably was thinking “it came from that shelf in front of you”

Last week I saw somebody just plonk an enormous steak from the fridge section onto a normal shelf of food and walk off, obviously just decided they didn’t want it and didn’t care that it would spoil and go to waste there. I was so angry (and put it back in the fridge)

I too sniff the packs of tomatoes! When my DH came shopping with me once, he thought I was bonkers doing this until I explained why - now he gives them a good sniff too 😂

This really triggers me and drives me absolutely mad. I can’t stand people excessively touching and handling fruit they have no intention of buying. Every time I am in the supermarket and I go to buy some bananas, I always just pick up the first bunch that look almost ripe, are a nice colour and look undamaged, then put them in my basket and walk away. Even if one is a little damaged I just eat that one first. Job done.

But time and time again the display is being body blocked by one person and their trolley while a queue builds up behind them, usually by someone of a certain age demographic removing every single bunch from the stand and inspecting them individually, prodding and poking them then putting them back.

Are you buying them or making love to them? Stop prodding and poking them all ffs! Other people have to buy those and they don’t want your hands all over them squeezing them and poking them.

No other supermarket fruit goes through this undignified ritual of prodding and poking then being put back on the shelf. It’s so unhygienic and rude. Just leave the bananas alone if you don’t want them! Other people have to buy those after you’ve finished messing about with them!

OMG - this has just brought back a memory I have tried to suppress of shopping with my octogenarian uncle. I won't say all the odd things he did - but this was one, he wanted six bananas but wouldn't take a bunch, he took one of the optimum size (for him) from six different bunches - aaarghh!

You'd hate me. I thoroughly examjne them and then select individual ones I like best. I don't prod though.

Bananas - if the bunch is obviously a perfect yellow and looks medium firm then I'll just pick it up, but if there aren't many to choose from I'll give them a gentle squeeze to see if they are edible.

Oranges - is there anything more disappointing than taking ages to peel an orange only to find it's dehydrated. A squeeze is the only way to see if it's a good 'un.

Melons - squeeze to see if over ripe, or rock hard. I also smell it.

I'm not damaging them.

Name Changed.

But, having been stung too many times by rotten fruit in the supermarket...when I do go now, I am a fruit fiddler and I am proud.

I turn packs of berries upside down (they often hide the rotten ones at the bottom I've found), I fondle bananas to make sure they're not already bruising, I squeeze my avocado and remove the little stem at the top and, if I am buying onions, I will sometimes peel back the first layer if I can by going from the nobbly bit at the top because I've had too many that were already rotten inside.

So yeah. People are well within their rights to be fruit fiddlers when supermarkets are consistently serving rotten fruit. Admittedly you can tell if bananas are or aren't rotten, but you can't see the bruises unless you closely inspect them.

Long live the fruit fiddlers.