Supermarket triggers. Leave The Bananas Alone!!

[TrippingOverMyAssets]

This really triggers me and drives me absolutely mad. I can’t stand people excessively touching and handling fruit they have no intention of buying. Every time I am in the supermarket and I go to buy some bananas, I always just pick up the first bunch that look almost ripe, are a nice colour and look undamaged, then put them in my basket and walk away. Even if one is a little damaged I just eat that one first. Job done.

But time and time again the display is being body blocked by one person and their trolley while a queue builds up behind them, usually by someone of a certain age demographic removing every single bunch from the stand and inspecting them individually, prodding and poking them then putting them back.

Are you buying them or making love to them? Stop prodding and poking them all ffs! Other people have to buy those and they don’t want your hands all over them squeezing them and poking them.

No other supermarket fruit goes through this undignified ritual of prodding and poking then being put back on the shelf. It’s so unhygienic and rude. Just leave the bananas alone if you don’t want them! Other people have to buy those after you’ve finished messing about with them!

It is the bread squashers that annoys me. Especially when they put a hole in the pack and put it back.

I don’t mind people turning over a few bunches to check whether they meet their requirements but it’s when they decide they don’t and just throw them down roughly. Same with bargain stuff, just rifle through and then just sling them back into the fridge with no care.

For me it’s the people who go “What are we having for dinner tonight?” - FFS discuss that beforehand and know what you’re going in for! Don’t stand in the middle of the damn aisle debating it!

You don't eat the skin do you? I check avocados and oranges too before buying, they can be so variable and I don't want them if they're already on the turn.

That’s not the point though. Bananas bruise easily from excessive handling, hence why messing about with them so much makes it more likely you’re going to damage the ones that other people are going to be left with on the shelf.

Last week I saw somebody just plonk an enormous steak from the fridge section onto a normal shelf of food and walk off, obviously just decided they didn’t want it and didn’t care that it would spoil and go to waste there. I was so angry (and put it back in the fridge)

I even sniff some fruits 🤷
I am paying and I am the one eating it, so I am picking what exactly I need/want.
You should see me hand weighting citrus fruits.

Well from the poll it looks like most of you like buying fruit that someone else has messed about with and damaged. Yeah, sure you do…

Now this absolutely boils my piss. Chilled just peft somewhere random. It's not like it takes more than 45sec to walk back to chillers

s, I always just pick up the first bunch that look almost ripe, are a nice colour and look undamaged, then put them in my basket and walk away.

I don’t. I have a good look and a feel.

You would no doubt have a breakdown watching me and I’d have a chuckle and stroll off!

I have never seen this. I have seen people pick them up to see if they are bruised, but never seen anyone loiter long enough for a queue to form.

What is the “certain age demographic” you are referring to?

So what about the ones you put back? You’re not paying for those or eating them. Other people are, which is the whole point.

usually by someone of a certain age demographic

Darn those banana-prodding teenagers!

Personally I'm not handling it roughly enough to damage it unless it was already bruised/rotten. I don't throw it around or prod it.

Hi my name is youalright and I am a bread squasher

So it’s either “like” OR be “triggered”

no middle ground of… not particularly bothered and I do it myself

Name Changed.

But, having been stung too many times by rotten fruit in the supermarket...when I do go now, I am a fruit fiddler and I am proud.

I turn packs of berries upside down (they often hide the rotten ones at the bottom I've found), I fondle bananas to make sure they're not already bruising, I squeeze my avocado and remove the little stem at the top and, if I am buying onions, I will sometimes peel back the first layer if I can by going from the nobbly bit at the top because I've had too many that were already rotten inside.

So yeah. People are well within their rights to be fruit fiddlers when supermarkets are consistently serving rotten fruit. Admittedly you can tell if bananas are or aren't rotten, but you can't see the bruises unless you closely inspect them.

Long live the fruit fiddlers.

Are you, gulp, “triggered” by a lot in life OP?

The fruit will have been handled - being picked , packed , unpacked and sent to store to display

i have never had to queue up behind anyone because of their excessive fruit selection process - I think you have hit unlucky there

Go to my local Sainsbury’s. You’ll see the queue build up while the banana blocker remains completely oblivious.

Why the heck did you name change! Nothing to be remotely embarrassed about

I won’t eat anything from the bakery section in Lidl after seeing a woman allow her little brats to pick up and put down donuts, cookies, rolls etc. Turns my stomach.

Quite the creative writer 😂

But I don't damage fruits. I am not a twat. I turn it, check it, see if I like the colour, mentally weight it for juicyness, occasionally sniff some to see if it's actually smelling of what it should be. Can be quite game changer for tomatoes btw.

You'd hate me. I thoroughly examjne them and then select individual ones I like best. I don't prod though.