To ask how you would eat a banana?

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I got a banana case for a stocking present at Christmas. It stops your banana getting bruised in your bag.
The thing that I find weird is that it comes with a little fork. Does anyone actually eat a banana with a fork?

A banana fork? No-I haven't heard of that.

I don't eat them at all. Yuck.

That's a forking joke , sorry. Never heard of that

Did you know, it's easier to open a banana at the short end rather than the long stalk-y end?

I dunno what you do with a fork.

At school there were rumours that another local girls school had to have them chopped up in their canteen - those poor ladies were apparently completely ignorant to the true form of the lowly banana .

i read today on an american website that all English people use a knife and fork to eat a banana

there was no comments section for me to complain in

unless you all use a knife and firm and I've been doing it wrong all these years?

Also: bananas are radioactive and if you smoke about 10 million dried nana skins you can get high.

only monkeys open the banana from the pointy end

Is it to mash for babies?

I don't know, the great thing about bananas is that they naturally come in their own protective case (halfway across the world).

My PIL eats it with a knife and a form on a plate.
Pillock.

superbagpuss - that's fabulous!

I eat mine with a fork (cut it into even slices first) and so does dd. Obviously it is better with an additional smothering of hot custard. I don't like them unsliced.

I also slice up Mars bars, though I would pick up the slices with my fingers. I wouldn't just bite into a whole one.

The last time I stayed in an upmarket hotel (for work), room service offered me a banana as a snack - on a silver plate with a knife and fork...

Moppy: do you mean the stalk-y end when you say pointy end? I heard gorillas open them from the non-stalk-y end because it IS easier.

Maybe other apes/monkeys haven't realised??

I eat banana with a fork if I've mashed it up with said fork.

I eat it with a spoon if it's with custard.

But usually, I peel it and eat it without any cutlery.

I was taught to use a knife and fork to eat a banana and even how to cut the skin properly.

But everyone I know and even my family just eats it the same way as everyone else, you hold it upright, peel and eat.

How do I eat a banana?

1. peel
2. bite off chunk
3. chew
4. swallow
5. repeat steps 2-4 until banana is finished
6. put peel in bin

Nope, can't see any need for a fork in there.

snap the stalk backwards you get a whole banana.

push the pointy end then you get a mushy end. ive only ever seen a monkey open it like this till one of my clients told me as some sort of revelation... arent we stupid we are all opening bananas the wrong way

i tried it... and decided he was a dickhead

Just peel and bite whilst avoiding awkward banana eating eye contact.

How is it easier to open a banana from the short end? What exactly do you do to it- there's nothing to grab hold of and it's a bit tough to use your nails like a would a satsuma.

I throw the peel away before eating and break off mouth size chunks with my fingers. Saves the awkward banana eating eye contact problem.

I saw in good food magazine that it's easier to open the none stalk end but I have never had a problem with the stalk end.
It appears it may be 'proper' to eat a banana with a fork. I think I shall perhaps take a napkin to work too and see how I get on.

I wouldn't eat a banana at all - I don't like them

I wouldn't. Bananas are the fruit of the devil.

If I'm having a banana along with breakfast (eggs and toast and such) I'll slice it onto the plate and eat it with a fork.

A banana by itself as a snack gets peeled and eaten, no utensils.

I had an ex-boyfriend who loved to go on about the 'revelation' about the proper way to peel a banana scientists observed in monkeys (the non-stalky end). Absolutely ridiculous. It's clearly not easier, it's hard to grip and the peel doesn't peel right and the end smushes. Why the feck would something a less evolved version of us did be the 'right way'? We beat them! We're smarter! The smarter way to defecate doesn't involve flinging our feces around, either.