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!

Bananas dont bother me being touched because we take the skin off? Also how do you think the handling process is on these before they even make it to shelf?

I agree this is something that really narks me

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 ffs this place gets worse..of course you have to check the fruit before you buy it..I check how green or yellow bananas are..how firm grapes are,check the bottom of cherry toms to make sure they're not mouldy..fruits are very very expensive

Bananas are peeled, and the bunches are handled by croppers and preparation work. Oranges are peeled. Apples should be washed anyway. Anyone coming behind to chose fruit will probably do the same.

I will scan the bananas and then pick up a few to make sure they look good all round. I pick them up by the end bit so I don’t squash them.
I have never in my life seen a banana queue though 😹
I also check avocados.

Actually squeezing fruit is not nice but there is no reason why not to pick up and have a check.

My ex husband used to enjoy going supermarket shopping to just watch the way people behaved around the bananas 😂.

Change of tone after you had your ass handed to you on a plate @TrippingOverMyAssets

Well, you mentioned that the man that you (and someone else with time to waste) stood and watched while he was rubbing bananas was "older", but - as I said in one of my posts - older than who/what?
This is part of my post:

LaMarschallin · Yesterday 12:45
Coffeeishot · Yesterday 12:28
Oh I am sure we know what demographic the Op is on about, going by their co op bannana queue story.

Good point.
We know the man was "older", but older than what/who?
The pyramids?
Harry Styles?
His teeth (but just as old as his gums)?

Maybe the 😉 you used indicates you've got something in your eye, so couldn't read it properly...?

And Deliccoffee has called it correctly, imo:
Change of tone after you had your ass handed to you on a plate

Not looking at them you say? He might have poor eyesight. I love bananas when the yellow skin has brown speckles but hate a banana that's over ripe and brown. If he can't use his eyes to see he can only use his hands.

I don’t buy or eat bananas but check all food to see if it meets my exacting standards!’
Not just sell by/use by dates but fat contact for meat, evenness and freshness of fruit and veg etc

I saw a man poking steaks in Sainsburys and apparently watching to see how fast they rose again. I wish I’d thought to ask why.

You can eat the stalk too.