AIBU to never eat a banana properly in the office?

[PoorPawsPickPawpaws]

I would never just eat a banana by biting chunks from the whole fruit (which is how I would eat it at home)? I would always break a chunk off and eat it. As if taking a bite is too.... rude, suggestive?

Am I weird?

YABU: you are an overthinking weirdo for changing how you eat a banana in the office
YANBU: we all adjust how we eat bananas in case we come across like the women in the old Flake adverts

Yes yabu. I doubt anyone is salivating across the office at Jenny eating a banana.

I have literally never thought about how to eat a banana before reading this.

Oh dear.

It IS just me

I don't care how anyone eats it but please don't have an over ripe black one 🤢

I break mine up too

Unless you practice deep throat actions while eating a banana at home just eat the flaming thing at work as usual.

I don't eat bananas, but I believe I'd eat them the normal way, wherever I was. Unnecessarily touching food with you hands is worse (in an office setting, with the increased potential for germs) than the slim chance you'd ever look "suggestive" eating something. If someone sees and thinks, "ooooh", that's all on them for having their mind in the gutter.

Not because it’s suggestive though!

Would a bloke really find someone biting a banana a turn on? Strange

You have to do banana to mouth. Not mouth to banana.

@MattHancocksSexTape

Would a bloke really find someone biting a banana a turn on? Strange

No. I genuinely don't think they would. But I still adjust how I eat one because of it.

I am wierder that I realised....

I was eating a banana once, in my twenties. A man came over and said ‘I love watching women eat bananas’
So yanbu. There are some weird men out there.

Just make sure you maintain eye contact with your favourite co-worker while you're eating it.

Just don't make eye contact with any men while you're eating a banana and you'll be fine.

It's a very common Jilly-Cooperism to say something like: "She's such a prude that she eats bananas sideways".

My MiL (a great stickler for etiquette) used to peel her bananas the opposite way from most: holding it by the little stalk - the bit most people use to start peeling the first strip - as if it was an ice-lolly stick, then awkwardly peeling from the blunt end.

I can’t eat a banana at my work without someone making a carry-on type innuendo. (And the women are the worst!) YANBU op.

@UnwantedGain

I was eating a banana once, in my twenties. A man came over and said ‘I love watching women eat bananas’ So yanbu. There are some weird men out there.

Well he definitely was bananas.

I always break mine up. My friend found a spider in a banana once so basically I'm breaking it up and looking for spiders.

@scottmichael

I always break mine up. My friend found a spider in a banana once so basically I'm breaking it up and looking for spiders.

It depends where you leave the skin. Rancid smelly banana skins in office wastepaper bins are disgusting.

I once ate a banana at work (small office and I was the only woman, lots of innuendo) and two of the guys gathered around me to watch me eat it. They thought it was hilarious.

It depends. What do you do with the peel? IDK why but banana peel in the bin makes me boak

I wouldn't care how you ate it, but would definitely appreciate it not being eaten near me. Banana is one thing I really hate the smell of, it genuinely makes me heave and it's so awkward because it's not something people usually react to! I just remove myself for a bit and make sure the peel isn't thrown in a bin near where I have to be.

Yanbu at all! When I worked in an office I was the same. For me it definitely wasn’t because I thought anybody would be ‘salivating’ over me eating it as a PP has said it was more that it just made me cringe! Same with ice creams and having to lick them😬

Yup I’m with you op. I’ve also heard too many jokes, I also break it up into pieces to eat it.