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!

I say good on you though I would have been tempted to pick it up and follow them in the hope I could sneak it back in their trolley at some point.

i can’t walk past the freezer section without looking for partially open lids to slide shut.

You've never seen the ruckus when the zookeeper gives one gorilla a big banana and the other gorilla a medium sized one. Worse than EastEnders Christmas Specials.

I like my bananas to have a tinge of green to them so that they ripen fully at home. They last longer that way!

This thread has really cheered me up on this freezing morning.

Monkey and Grape experiment

As someone who works in a supermarket, we know that some people do this because it's 'funny'. We've found bags of frozen peas 'hidden' behind the nappies, tins of peas carefully put in between tins of dogfood... yeah, Barry, it's hilarious that someone has to spend their time searching these things out to save wasteage which gets slapped onto the cost of your groceries...

Hmm. Come on op, triggered is not the word, it irritates you more than it should that is what you mean.

Let’s save triggered for the ex soldier with ptsd when he or she hears fireworks and it “triggers” memories of the war zone they were in , or someone sitting next to an arguing couple in a restaurant and feeling an adrenaline surge as they are transported back to their awful childhood and their warring parents.

unless you are going to reveal some banana incident from childhood?

My mum will always test the grapes by eating one. She was scarred by a terrible incident in the 70s where she bought a sour bunch of grapes. She never got over it.

I have been going to supermarkets for decades, and have bought bananas many times, but I've never seen anyone loitering near the bananas long enough for a queue to start forming.

Completely not the point of the thread but I was once bitten by a spider that came out of a bunch of bananas.

I check the fruit too. I'm not sorry. It's getting so expensive and quality is going down so quickly, that I want something decent for my money.

I don't damage things. But I do have a good look.

These are the sort of threads I live for.

The people that remove the stalks off avocados so they can see what colour the avocado is. Remove the stalks is what causes them to go that horrible grey colour. I buy the unripe with stalks and ripen at home.

Last night was a good example of how unnecessary this is. Popped into the Co Op on the way home because I needed just a couple of bananas for this morning and an older man was stood in front of the banana stand oblivious to the woman already waiting behind him waiting to get to the shelf.

I then joined behind her and we both watched as the man ran his hand all the way along all the remaining loose bananas on the top shelf rolling them all in his hand one at a time and then putting them back, while actually looking down at the bagged ones on the middle shelf. He wasn’t even looking at the ones he was touching. Then he picked a bagged bunch from the middle shelf and put them in his basket.

So why the needless ritual of prodding and poking all the others? This is what I’m talking about. People mindlessly poking them about when they don’t even intend to buy them. I just wanted to pull my hair out and shout LEAVE TTHE BANANAS ALONE!!

Thats two different supermarkets in two different places. Same tired old banana ritual. And yes, like it or not it really is usually a certain age group who seem to do this more than others. I mean what do they think they are going to look like when they come out of the other end anyway?

I can give you the names of two different supermarkets in the Loughton area if you’d like a trial run.

I wish I had the balls to do this with my plums. They’ve been so sour recently.

I reckon it’s them millennials

I can't stand to see the police "disrespecting" food in the supermarkets. Looking at it then throwing it down. Whether it's fruit, ready meals, cheese...whatever. Why can't they be gentle.

I do this loads... sorry.

Co op Bannana queue 😂

Sorry OP, I check banana's. And if they're ok, I don't take the bottom ones on the bunch because it's the bottom ones that tend to be bruised. Bananas are my absolute fav, even since little, so I want nice!

I sniff tomatoes too. No smell = no flavour it seems.

When lived in London I tried using our local greengrocer, to support local not supermarkets. I saw lovely fruit and veg shop when moved in but it turned out customers were not allowed to chose their own products. The chap was taking the older stuff for me instead of the lovely looking stuff on display. So I asked him not to bother, explained why and didn't go back of course. I understand why he wants to get rid of older stuff, but perhaps he needed to stop buying so much stock that he couldn't shift it before it went off!

My late FIL did the same with grapes, and with piccolo cherry tomatoes. But he also snaffled a tube of fixident, sigh, one of the most stolen items apparently. I think he started not to care when he reached 90.

We’ve been through so much trauma, just let us have our perfect bananas dammit!!

I never knew any of that with the stalks! Every day is a school day as they say :-)

FFS OP life isn’t just black or white you know, there are shades in between. Who was that thick as shit US president who said if you’re not with us you’re against us? Dubya probably.

Anyway I voted YABU because I think your post is hyperbole. People generally really don’t do this. And if they have a little feel of a banana and put it back I really don’t care. It’s not unhygienic unless you’re going to eat a banana without peeling it. And the banana stand is quite wide so people don’t queue there, that’s nonsense. And I bet you’re implying it’s old people that do this. Fuck off with your “certain age demographic”. Ageist!

YABU OP. Suck it up!

Living through like 50th once in lifetime shitshow we deserve good bananas!