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To ask what you do about cocoons on bananas?!

73 replies

jaseyraex · 20/02/2018 17:10

This is a ridiculous question but no one in this house can agree with what to do and google is just giving me horror stories! There's a little white webby cocoon thing on one of our bananas, delivered by asda on Sunday. My DH says just bin it but I'm thinking what if it's filled with deadly spider eggs?! Shouldn't we let someone know about it? I don't want them hatching and running around our food waste bin. What would you do if you found a cocoon on your bananas? I think I might be over reacting Blush

OP posts:
NightRaven52 · 20/02/2018 18:45

But what if there were spider eggs on the other bananas and they hatched before you saw them Shock

Sorry OP but the only reasonable thing to do in this situation is to burn your house down

Original poster
jaseyraex · 20/02/2018 19:05

NightRaven52

There was a spider in the kitchen after my delivery came and now I'm wondering if mummy spider was hiding in the bananas and I didn't notice!

I have terrible arachnophobia. I can't even attempt to catch a spider let alone kill it's potential babies! I got in touch with customer services in the end. Have to take the banana back to a store and someone will deal with it just in case they might be tropical spiders. Feel like I done the right thing! I'm giving them the whole bunch back, just in case Grin

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Rottweilers · 20/02/2018 19:09

I’d just move house/set fire to it and be done with it all.

Ladymadness · 20/02/2018 19:12

Nope nope nope this would be my house

To ask what you do about cocoons on bananas?!
Purplehammer · 20/02/2018 19:14

Go outside,peel banana,eat the fruit.
Then put the banana skin through your letter box plus a can of petrol (other inflammable liquids are available) followed by a lighted match.
This will avoid the possibility of an invasion of a venomous alien species.
You also have the comfort of knowing you have not paid for an uneaten banana.

SomeKnobend · 20/02/2018 19:16

Personally I'd obviously set fire to the house and then move countries. But I'm not fond of spiders.

LivingInMidnight · 20/02/2018 19:18

I'm with Ladymadness. At the very least burn the entire delivery.

WineAndTiramisu · 20/02/2018 19:26

Sealed plastic bag and bin

GrannyGrissle · 20/02/2018 19:34

There is a mner with a spider farm. Post it to her ?

Scullerymaid · 20/02/2018 20:43

You have to take it back to Tesco?
They're being CF - demand they send a full
Haz mat squad at your house pronto as minimum.

frankie001 · 20/02/2018 20:45

#sexyegg# do you mind? I'm on a tube and just laugh snorted. Now everyone is looking as I've tried to turn it into a cough.

BeesAndChiscuits · 20/02/2018 20:46

OMG.

Acid

Fire

Liquid Nitrogen

Chuck it in the sea

chala86 · 20/02/2018 20:49

Put it in a sealed container and freeze it for 48 hours. Then you can put it in the bin without fearing a swarm of deadly baby spiders hatching and invading your house.

OuchMyFoof · 20/02/2018 20:49

I kind of want to know what’s in it! But I would probably burn it/move personally

poddige · 20/02/2018 20:56

@GrannyGrissle a WHAT NOW!?

MooseBeTimeForSnow · 20/02/2018 21:02

I know someone who worked in the Merchant Navy on a Geest ship, transporting bananas. He sometimes had to go into the void spaces underneath the hold ....

IJustLostTheGame · 20/02/2018 21:02

Put it in a freezer bag and freeze it. That will kill it

anxious2017 · 20/02/2018 21:10

This happened to me and what I did was quite ridiculous, but I do have anxiety disorder, so I'll use that as an excuse.

I put on gloves, picked up the banana with tongs, placed both tongs and banana in a carrier bag and tied the top. I then put the carrier bag in a black bag and tied that. Then I took the gloves off, put them in a carrier bag which went into another black bag along with the banana bag and tied that. Then I put the bag outside my front door while furiously texting everyone I knew about what I should do. All this was done accompanied by much squealing.

The general consensus was that I should drive the bag far away from civilisation, so I drove 20 miles up the nearest mountain and deposited the bag in a bin at the viewing point. I then took my car to be valeted and threw away everything that had been in the bag with the bananas even though they'd been in a sealed bag.

My friends thought it was hilarious. At the time I was frantic with worry but looking back I can see how ridiculously idiotic I was.

BelindasRedPlasticHandcuffs · 20/02/2018 21:20

What is it with bananas?! We have definitely seen a spider-infested-banana thread before. Eek! This is why I avoid bananas. BURN IT DEAD ConfusedGrin

FuckyNellYaBastad · 20/02/2018 21:25

A posters dad boiled a banana with a cocoon on a few weeks ago didn’t they?

InterstellarSleepingElla · 20/02/2018 21:33

Fucky I remember that thread - they got a roasting off some other posters for that....

wakemeupbefore · 20/02/2018 21:34

Start your own Spider Shop. Halo

SpiderShop

brizzledrizzle · 20/02/2018 21:34

I never buy bananas in bags and if I absolutely must buy a banana then I buy an individual one.

I inspect them in the shop and if I found a cocoon then I think I might have to nuke the place.

Skittlesss · 20/02/2018 21:36

Anxious... I have anxiety too and my thoughts were along the same line...

Bag banana in small bag. Tie bag.
Put in carrier bag with all others that came with it. Tie bag.
Put in bin bag. Roll it over so it's all wrapped up.
Put in another carrier bag. Tie bag.
Drive to council yard and gently place it in the skip.
Drive to garage and vac whole car.
Drive home and disinfect and vac whole house.
Breathe.
Panic.

Dahlietta · 20/02/2018 21:38

I had something that looked that on my car for a while, just above the wheel. Didn't think much of it, just a bit of web or something, I thought. One day I looked and there were HUNDREDS of little spidery fuckers crawling around on there. They hung around for a couple of days and then one day I got up in the morning and they were gone - off to wreak havoc somewhere, no doubt. Burn them.