Supermarket triggers. Leave The Bananas Alone!!

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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!

What age demographic is inclined to inspect the bananas?

Seriously?

I’m wondering what the age demographic is, so I’m can watch out for it 🤔

Ooh. You would hate me at the Avocados!

My name is SuckerForBread and like @youalright I am a fruit feeler and a bread squisher.

I won’t be changing. I have been caught out too many times by ‘ripe’ plums that are anything but ripe. Or bread that claims to be freshly baked but you could break your teeth on the crust. I mostly bake my own now so I do less squishing.

But I do always wash my fruit and vegetables.

So your beef is with the people who damage fruit that they don’t buy? Perfectly reasonable. Leave us careful fruit handlers alone to carefully inspect before we make our choice.

I can honestly say I have never seen anyone remove every bunch of bananas in any supermarket I’ve visited. In addition, if someone were blocking my access to the bananas, I’d wait a few seconds and then if they hadn’t moved I’d politely say ‘excuse me can I just get to the bananas’ and pick my bunch.
Furthermore, your sneaky dig at older people is pathetic.

Feel this way when I see people firmly squeeze a bunch of avocados before they choose the one they want. Poor avocados! Squeezed to mush by overzealous squeezers!

You don't need to squeeze avocados in the middle to see if they are ripe, you can do this at the pointed end. It saves the avocado being unnecessarily bruised (injured!) for another poor person to buy.

Also makes me shudder when I see people shove their hand in the fruit and seem to be really heavy handed disregarding the ones they want. I have been so close to saying, "Please, be gentle!!" 😉

Don't get me started on the cashiers who grab your fruit, put it through the till and then throw it down for you to put it in your bag! Already bruised fruit before they have been brought home.

No one wants to be held up by the avocados (fnarr, fnarr)

EE millenials 😂
Judging by myself

Has it been in the Daily Mail? Maybe you could give them a call?

Bananas - if the bunch is obviously a perfect yellow and looks medium firm then I'll just pick it up, but if there aren't many to choose from I'll give them a gentle squeeze to see if they are edible.

Oranges - is there anything more disappointing than taking ages to peel an orange only to find it's dehydrated. A squeeze is the only way to see if it's a good 'un.

Melons - squeeze to see if over ripe, or rock hard. I also smell it.

I'm not damaging them.

I too sniff the packs of tomatoes! When my DH came shopping with me once, he thought I was bonkers doing this until I explained why - now he gives them a good sniff too 😂

This. I'm amazed people don't check the fruit and veg, it's no wonder supermarkets think they can get away with selling fruit that is a) So hard that it will never ripen or b) one step short of rotten (avocados especially).
People have become so used to sanitized, plasticized food.
You know it grows in fields, with animal manure and birds crapping on it, it's often handled a lot during picking and packing. It isn't germ free.

Weight. The heavier orange (any citrus), the juicier in my experience 😉
I do last one standing. Pick too, keep heavier one, lose light one, pick new one, lose the lighter ones and so on until I have my perfect similarly heavy bunch😂 sounds bit mental written down

OMG - this has just brought back a memory I have tried to suppress of shopping with my octogenarian uncle. I won't say all the odd things he did - but this was one, he wanted six bananas but wouldn't take a bunch, he took one of the optimum size (for him) from six different bunches - aaarghh!

I scared a young lad (staff) in Morrisons once by barking “do you know where this comes from?” while wielding a cucumber. I wanted to know if it was UK grown but he probably was thinking “it came from that shelf in front of you”

Where I live supermarket aisles are not that narrow that there are ques in fruit and veg aisles.

I don't consider it odd af all to select the items I actually want.

🤣

Me too.

I do miss the old fashioned green grocers where you asked for what you wanted and one of the staff picked, bagged and weighed it for you - rarely got damaged fruit that way and they were incredibly efficient (not efficient enough to offer prices as low as the supermarket, but the food was better quality).

I'm not buy fruit and veg that's bruised, unripe or or damaged if I can help it, though. So I'm probably one of the old people standing in front of the bananas, OP. Sorry.

I hate people that do this, bloody selfish, lazy and ignorant. Not to mention criminally wasteful

Why did you bark at him?
He may have thought you were asking him how cucumbers grow rather than their origin.
Why do you think he probably thought it came from the shelf? Younger people are quite capable of understanding where their food comes from.

I sniff tomatoes 🍅

But you know the solution is online shopping OP, just do that.

Green grocers and markets tend to have produce that isn't rotten or rock hard. The overripe/damaged produce is sold off cheaply at the end of the day.
You just can't guarantee that in the supermarket.