To be underwhelmed and not a little angry about misleading banana peeling advice?

[Proudnscary]

Ok so I read on a MN Classics thread that I've been peeling bananas the wrong way for 40 odd years (how stupid did I feel?) and that there was an incredible, life-changing way to open said fruit. It's a secret monkeys have known for thousands of years.

The MNetters on this thread were astonished and thrilled by this discovery.

I gathered my children, told them 'Hurry, get a banana, I have something amazing to show you!'.

Went on to Youtube to view a video that has had THREE AND A HALF MILLION hits of a guy showing you how to peel a banana the correct way. In his preamble he tells us this demo will change our lives.

He pinches the banana at non-stalk end and peels it. And, err, that's it. It didn't peel itself. The skin didn't pop off. He just didn't have to wrestle with the stalk. My son says 'That was crap'.

WTF?

I don´t squidge the banana just because I don´t hold it with the stalk.

Must be because I´m quiet

I too was stunned when I first saw a pineapple growing, and it wasn't on a tree ! Just who knew ???? this was 20 odd years ago mind, so sorry I hadn't shared before now

But if you open it non-stalk end you get that inedible chewy seed bit in your mouth and have to spit it out.
I've reverted to stalk end and opening ds's bananas for him...

If you open it the "wrong" way then you don't get horrible stringy bits all down the banana, which is a nice bonus.

However I always find it makes the end go squishy when I'm squeezing it, so I open it the normal way, and slice the stalk across with a knife first to make it easy.

How did I get to the ripe old age of 41, always assuming that pineapples grew on trees? I had images of them falling off palm-like trees, just like coconuts.

I was going to buy one of those apple corer things this year, but sadly, our apple tree that bore much fruit for the last 2 years, has produced but four apples this year . We think the late frost killed off the blossom before it had the chance to turn into baby apples, but if anybody has a better explanation, I'd love to hear it. Secretly glad I won't have to spend hours and hours washing, peeling, chopping and juicing.

The pineapple in the ground thing has BLOWN MY MIND

I knew that pineapples didn´t grow on trees as I know it´s a pineapple plant-but still would imagine that it looked more like this

Diddl - not sure if Lakeland do a pineapple slicer that big .

'scuse me, bananas are berries, not fruit.

I went past a pineapple field in Australia and made the cabbie stop so I could take a picture. He thought I was mad then pissed himself when I said I'd always believed them to grow on trees

Hold the phone. Pineapples don't grow on trees a la Coconuts?!

Well fuck me

the banana thing is just bollocks.

i am also amazed that pineapples dont grow on trees! its not something i ever gave much thought to put modt fruit grows on trees and i would have assumed that pineapples did!

didl is that picture in Rhodes?

Ohh and meant to say I learnt about pineapples growing in the ground playing one of those addictive farming games on FB.

I have the apple peeling contraption. Great for making apple crumble, apple jam etc.

Hi all - well my banana related anger has subsided somewhat ().

But my pineapple related angst is OFF THE SCALE. They grow in the ground?

And for all these years I was getting angry at farmVille showing pineapples growing in the ground.

Who knew!

Have searched every memory stick I can find for my picture of a pineapple field and I cannot find it anywhere

If you peel not using the stalk, you get to pull the horrible stringy bit out and then not worry about how far down you can eat before you get it in your mouth! You can eat All The Banana.

So all those evil, huge stringly bits are eradicated?

Stringly?? Stringy.

I said about the stringy bits five hours ago!

YANBU

You might all like this though: grow your own pineapple

Sorry Bertie...but is it true? Every time??

I've hot a pineapple plant. When it came it had a dinky little pineapple. Unsurprisingly it's failed to fruit again and now I've got a big, ugly spiky plant