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!

That’s okay😊 but the op said people were splitting them up and touching them excessively😂

My shop has them up on the top shelf. Never thought about it before but maybe it’s to prevent fondling 😂

Not even name changing for this. I'm a broccoli stalk breaker. My DH pretends he's not with me when we are approaching the broccoli.

I'm also a banana checker, lettuce weigher (I like a heavy one, don't ask) cucumber molester, tomato sniffer and melon squeezer.

I'm a Boomer (just). Maybe that's the age demographic OP's referring to?

Oh I like a heavy lettuce 😂 light lettuces are weak and probably on.the turn.

@Coffeeishot glad it's not just me! I love a heavy lettuce.

DramaAlpaca

Maybe that's the age demographic OP's referring to?

Could be.
She doesn’t seem to want to tell us.

Oh I am sure we know what demographic the Op is on about, going by their co op bannana queue story.

If it makes you feel any better, my OH works nights at a supermarket and anything like this, he brings back and we just eat it. No food poisoning thus far.

And so did @DarkEyedSailor and @ifIwerenotanandroid. 👏👏Sorry if I missed anyone.

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)?
The other random woman who, weirdly, joined the OP in silent standing and staring at an older-than-someone/thing man rubbing bananas?

Ah well, whatever entertains you, I suppose.
Me, I'd have said "Excuse me", got my bananas and had it away on my toes with them without any triggering whatsoever.

I split them up to get the number I want. And who judges what's excessive?

I love bananas! Even the ‘been kicked around the block til battered-and-bruised’ ones, there’s never waste as they’re brilliant in a kids smoothie or pancake batter.

They are brilliant, one of the best foods on planet earth imo

The op says she finds it “triggering” @feistyoneyouare . Would you describe a “pet peeve” as “triggering”?

TW.
I make my own sauerkraut and I'm forever prodding cabbages to find the best one. I'll lift up the top basket to get to the better ones below.

Yeah, that’s not a green grocer I’d miss!

You can't do that in our local Lidl: the bakery products are all in cages behind a transparent screen so you use a kind of long handled spoon to transfer the product you want to buy into a chute and then catch it in a bag without touching it yourself.
https://www.shutterstock.com/fr/image-photo/nrw-october-13-2025-selfservice-bakery-2689670555?trackingId=42ef53e6-4b2c-4a02-a2aa-213861517f93

Many years ago, when I was poor, I got something bagged at the delicatessen counter and was too embarrassed to tell the woman that I had mis-read the price and simply didn't have the money to pay for it, so I offloaded it into a fridge around the corner.
I was even more embarrassed that I would have otherwise been when someone found it before I had left the store and the delicatessen woman came running out and found me to give me a right telling off at the checkout (I was wearing a distinctive coat, presumably that's how she identified me....).
I regretted not having hidden it better, rather than leaving it where it would be found and could be returned to the delicatessen.

A banana is going to be peeled so what does it matter

Imagine this is your only worry in life.
Such a privilege

I often have to squeeze pretty much every avocado on the shelf just to try to find one that's not rock hard - and that includes the ones that are supposedly ready to eat.

I used to do that when they sold broccoli by weight. They’re usually in cellophane these days where I shop, probably because of bastards like us.

OP, it is a thing to test fruit by holding it and sniffing it, just like monkeys. But bananas bruise easily and you can just look at the colour, so YANBU about that. I like slightly green ones.

I did actually. Perhaps read my posts? 😉

You have to pick them up and look for spiders.

Right that’s it. Get out of my shop this instant! And don’t come back! 😂

Frankly, OP, you just seem to be an indiscriminating shopper and dislike other people, who perhaps have more time and more thrifty value-for-money habits, taking a different view of shopping.