To think that DH is being a bit strange?

[BendyMum15]

He won't eat the top 'pointy' bit of a banana -he breaks almost 1/4 of the banana off and throws it away. His reason - its horrible and all spikey!

Never noticed the spikeyness myself so passing it over to mumsnet. Is it normal to eat the top of a banana or is it normal to break it off and is it indeed spikey as DH suggests?

I can't eat it either. Makes me want to gag. I don't waste that much though!

We can assume he doesn't eat pineapple?

I sometimes break the top bit off if it looks brown. Never eat the bottom bit.

I don't eat that bit either usually, but only take about half an inch off

I'd agree more about the bottom tbh. Top? Nah that's v weird

I bite it off and chuck it in the bin, but only a teeny little bite, just to get rid of the pointy tip bit. Not strange at all.

What a waste. No, he is ridiculous. Completely ridiculous.

I hadn't thought about it until now but I don't eat the 'ends' of most things. I always break of a bit of banana, eat the second slice from a loaf, cut of ends of a sausage etc. Don't know why I do it

I have to take that bit off as well, it gives me the boak.

Must have money to burn... what a waste. More for you I suppose.

I hate that bit too - give DH the top and bottom of all my bananas or throw them in the compost if he's not here

I do this! I hate the top bit of the banana! But I don't waste 1/4 of it, just 1cm or so.

I won't say YABU though, DH thinks I'm off my rocker. But then I also peel every tiny piece of pith off tangerines and satsumas, it can take me 45 minutes to eat a small one!

Ooh yes can't eat a pithy fruit.

The top bit is where you should start to peel a banana.

I was liberated from parental insistence that a banana should be peeled from it's stalk very recently.

but there is a horrid black spikey bit

some bananas have a blacker, harder, spikier bit than others

I wouldn't take the risk, but I stopped eating bananas some years ago as they are unpleasant

He is being U! He should chuck the whole manky thing in the bin

Well, it's a bit like this...

I have to admit that I don't eat the top if its all squished and I never eat the bottom of a banana.

What is more surprising than this banana based revelation is that I have been with him for 9 years and married for 5 and have never ever noticed it until now. Its like he's a banana top removing ninja!

I used to break off just the pointy bit for Ds when he was little he called it the nubble He still removes the nubble and eats the rest.
I don't eat bananas, I love them, but they don't love me.

DH is perfectly normal. Anyone who eats the entire banana is a weirdo.

I don't eat the bottom bit of a banana because that can be spiky.
interestingly I read recently that what we assume to be the top of a banana (the bit we peel down) is actually the bottom.
is it the end that you peel that your husband doesn't eat or the other end?

Its the bit by the 'stalk' so the bit you peel down from.

I don't eat the bottom bit of the banana (I just leave it in the skin). I eat the top though. I'm really confused by everyone saying the top is spiky? Unless they are considering top and bottom the other way round from me (top = stalk end, as in the bit that's at the top when its hanging from a bunch).

Monkeys peel them from the bottom. Tbf its an easier way of doing it. Bottom sticky out bit is Vile. Remainder of banana is nice and all eaten.

I have eaten quite possibly thousands of bananas in my life and have never noticed a particularly pointy end. How have I missed this?!

DP doesn't like the bottom bit of a banana (the 'bottom' here being the bit at the opposite end to the stalk) because, as a child, he once read about/was told/imagined that someone once found lots of spiders erupting out of eggs in this part!!