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Supermarket triggers. Leave The Bananas Alone!!

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TrippingOverMyAssets · 21/11/2025 07:48

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!

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DiscoBeat · 21/11/2025 08:10

YABU. Sometimes there are black marks underneath. I like pure yellow bananas!
Also my elderly mum isn't nearby so I can only do her shopping once a week so she has 4 bananas of varying colours, sometimes I have to break up a bunch to do that.

Excelnotexcellent · 21/11/2025 08:09

Onefortheroad25 · 21/11/2025 08:03

I won’t eat anything from the bakery section in Lidl after seeing a woman allow her little brats to pick up and put down donuts, cookies, rolls etc. Turns my stomach.

I pick from the back in UK. 😁
It's such a shame people bwhave badly around these. I grew up with pick your own bakery in supermarkets and love it. I don't need prepacked 6 rolls, I want 3 so I would love to just pick 3. Imho per weight and per piece should come back. Less waste and allows people to buy small amounts they need or can afford.
"Can I have 100g/15 slices thickly sliced of this please" is one of the sentences I greatly miss in my life.

Coffeeishot · 21/11/2025 08:09

TrippingOverMyAssets · 21/11/2025 07:58

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…

Your bannanas probably get more handling from being packed and unpacked than shoppers checking them out on the shelf.

guesscorrect · 21/11/2025 08:08

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youalright · 21/11/2025 08:07

countrygirl99 · 21/11/2025 08:04

I always shop in Sainsbury's and have never seen a banana queue in over 40 years

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A banana queue 🤣🤣🤣

Prelim · 21/11/2025 08:07

TrippingOverMyAssets · 21/11/2025 07:58

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…

But that wasn’t your question. Seems like the majority don’t mind people going through the fruit to take the one that suits them (I hate ripe bananas so will buy the green ones). You don’t ask about the people who damage fruit beyond usability (which I’ve personally never witnessed).

If I want a melon for a recipe in the next few days, I’m obviously going to pick a ripe one (yes I do smell it!). Why would I pay for something unsuitable. Picking up a melon doesn’t damage it.

LaMarschallin · 21/11/2025 08:06

This sounds like my SiL. She'll wait, passive-aggressively rolling her eyes, while someone does this and only once they've left will she pick up the bloody bananas or whatever.
Just say "Excuse me, I'm just going to reach behind you/over your trolley to pick up some bananas" and do so.

Trentdarkmore · 21/11/2025 08:06

TrippingOverMyAssets · 21/11/2025 07:58

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…

No, I voted yabu because of the ageism.

youalright · 21/11/2025 08:06

Unescorted · 21/11/2025 08:05

Heathen 😉

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🤣🤣

Unescorted · 21/11/2025 08:05

youalright · 21/11/2025 08:01

Hi my name is youalright and I am a bread squasher

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Heathen 😉

Hoardasurass · 21/11/2025 08:05

@TrippingOverMyAssets you do know that the banana skin is lined and not eaten right?
People touching the skin causes no harm or contamination to the fruit so what's your issue

countrygirl99 · 21/11/2025 08:04

TrippingOverMyAssets · 21/11/2025 08:02

Go to my local Sainsbury’s. You’ll see the queue build up while the banana blocker remains completely oblivious.

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I always shop in Sainsbury's and have never seen a banana queue in over 40 years

GehenSieweiter · 21/11/2025 08:03

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

Excelnotexcellent · 21/11/2025 08:03

TrippingOverMyAssets · 21/11/2025 08:00

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.

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But I don't damage fruits. I am not a twat. I turn it, check it, see if I like the colour, mentally weight it for juicyness, occasionally sniff some to see if it's actually smelling of what it should be. Can be quite game changer for tomatoes btw.

guesscorrect · 21/11/2025 08:03

TrippingOverMyAssets · 21/11/2025 08:02

Go to my local Sainsbury’s. You’ll see the queue build up while the banana blocker remains completely oblivious.

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Quite the creative writer 😂

Onefortheroad25 · 21/11/2025 08:03

I won’t eat anything from the bakery section in Lidl after seeing a woman allow her little brats to pick up and put down donuts, cookies, rolls etc. Turns my stomach.

guesscorrect · 21/11/2025 08:03

Fruitfiddler · 21/11/2025 08:01

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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.

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

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TrippingOverMyAssets · 21/11/2025 08:02

ElizabethsTailor · 21/11/2025 08:00

I have never seen this. I have seen people pick them up to see if they are bruised, but never seen anyone loiter long enough for a queue to form.

What is the “certain age demographic” you are referring to?

Go to my local Sainsbury’s. You’ll see the queue build up while the banana blocker remains completely oblivious.

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itsthetea · 21/11/2025 08:02

The fruit will have been handled - being picked , packed , unpacked and sent to store to display

i have never had to queue up behind anyone because of their excessive fruit selection process - I think you have hit unlucky there

guesscorrect · 21/11/2025 08:02

Are you, gulp, “triggered” by a lot in life OP?

Fruitfiddler · 21/11/2025 08:01

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.

guesscorrect · 21/11/2025 08:01

TrippingOverMyAssets · 21/11/2025 07:58

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 it’s either “like” OR be “triggered”

no middle ground of… not particularly bothered and I do it myself

youalright · 21/11/2025 08:01

Unescorted · 21/11/2025 07:50

It is the bread squashers that annoys me. Especially when they put a hole in the pack and put it back.

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Hi my name is youalright and I am a bread squasher

Mt563 · 21/11/2025 08:01

Personally I'm not handling it roughly enough to damage it unless it was already bruised/rotten. I don't throw it around or prod it.

LaMarschallin · 21/11/2025 08:01

usually by someone of a certain age demographic

Darn those banana-prodding teenagers!