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!

All of this . I'm not buying concrete avocados , furry grapes or cucumbers with the weird squashy bit at the end. I'm fiddling

These bananas have been processed in their native country by converyeor belts, tipper trucks, hydraulic chutes, human hands, cranes, lorries, haulage machinery, before arriving at the supermarket.
I think you need to calm down.

Fucking Generation Z.
Looking for the perfect bunch of bananas for their fucking Instagram update.
Bastards

Prior experience telling me people will hunt me from thread to thread if I don't say something they agree with! Someone once found me on a thread about relationships and had a go at me for a post in Pets. People are odd.

Now I understand why you namechanged 🤣
So there are other fruit militants out there and not just the OP?

I always check out my fruit and veg when buying. I don't prod or squash though. I picked up some red peppers the other day and when I turned them over there were a few that had some damage. I do a lot of baking and check lemons for blemishes if I need to grate the rind.

I gently squeeze avocadoes to check for ripeness, especially if I want to eat them the same day. Who doesn't?

@Fruitfiddler like you I'm a gentle berry tipper. You need to be able to spot the squishy ones that don't move as they should. I'm also a cucumber fondler. It's upsetting to find part of the cucumber is a lot softer than the section you initially handled. Since putting my finger through a rotten Clementine when I was picking up the net bag I also check these and reject the bags containing overly soft ones.

At least we know OP can't be generation Y. If she were she wouldn't look twice at the bananas. She'd be too busy pushing past everyone else so she could fondle the poor innocent avocados.

Doesn't everyone belong to 'a certain age demographic '?

Even cats and dogs, ...and crocodiles and giraffes and gorillas (although the latter are not know for mishandling bananas).

Well, when I buy kiwi I can't stand that other people have looked at them first and probably caused them to go bitter through direct consumer eye contact. So I always take my kiwis from the bottom of the pile, but even then I feel I'm taking my chances.

Honestly, not worth getting so het up about.

Last week I took 40 minutes checking my bananas.I was aware of the massive , furious queue forming behind me as my trolley blocked the whole display.I , however, am of a certain age demographic, and won't tolerate mushy fruit.

So what age demographic are you talking about?

Im sorry to say that I am this person. I’m very picky with fruit and they need to be thoroughly inspected to make sure I can eat them

can I throw mine pet peeve in the mix...

I hate it when im in a queue at the till. person in front is every so carefully packing their shopping in the relevant bags. I can handle that, even though its delaying me.

but then, they start looking for their purse, phone, money, card etc to pay, delaying me even further. saying things like "oh where did I leave it" its like this is their first day on planet earth, did you not realise you would need this to pay mary? sometimes mary will apologise to the cashier for delaying them...

have your fooking money or method of payment ready mary before you reach the checkout.

I hate it when people say TRIGGERED
Ridiculous

Oh I feel your pain on the fingers going too deep in the fruit and on the soft cucumbers 😫

My local supermarket had Satsuma's in last weekend for the first time this year. I was there for so long that I could have set up a tent tbh. I was checking every single bag for the greenest ones I could find to they would last. It worked though, I still have a bag of entirely green satsumas. Perfect😍

I don't know if it's just around me, but I find 'seasonal' fruit tends to be the worst for going rotten quickly or rotting in the store. I'm not sure why, but it's very off-putting

My local Waitrose still has PYO bakery, a deli counter where you can specify exactly how much you want and how you'd like it sliced, and a fresh fish and meat counter.

The Tesco here never reopened theirs after Covid, and everything is now prepacked. Consequently, I buy a lot less in there than I used to.

40 minutes!
No need to be so hasty!
If I'm buying bananas I bring my camping chair.

Some of these replies are hilarious.

I'm not a bread squeezer, but I do like to examine the date labels and get the best one from the back. I usually have to put 2 pairs of glasses on to do this, which is a bit of a clue to my age. I don't poke bananas though.

For me it’s the cunts who eat something without paying and just leave the wrapper on a shelf. I see that a lot in my local Sainsbury’s.

So do I. I was taught to inspect fruit and veg before buying. I am of a 'certain age demographic' and we used to do the shopping for our mothers from a very young age, so were expected to know how to check for bruises, under or over-ripeness, to avoid waste.

Of all fruit, bananas are the ones I'd least mind other people touching as they have a thick protective skin you don't eat. I'd be put off by people doing this with peaches or nectarines.

Bananas are strange these days, green ones ripen inside without going yellow.

It’s just not that much of an issue in the grand scheme of things, is it?