I have to know two things . . .

[smwhorn]

1. When you eat a banana, do you peel it all the way before you eat or or do you eat as you peel, and

2. Regardless of your answer to Queston 1, do you eat the strings left on the banana by the peel or do you peel them off as well?

These are questions of life and death. Please reflect with great thought before answering. Thank you.

 

[Dionysus]

I tried with all my might to consider this important question but, you see, I slice my banana before adding it to the fruit salad as this is my methodology for banana consumption. I'm not saying slices are right for everyone; peeling and biting is a fine approach as well, but it's not for me. As for the strings: well, I can't go there, for the reasons I just explained.

Good luck in your quest, my friend.

 

[Texanne]

I peel as I go, and I discard the strings. This goes for whether I am planning to just eat the banana by itself or slice it vertically and put it in a sandwich with peanut butter.

However, if I am slicing to put it on cereal or into banana pudding, I peel it completely before applying the knife.

So I go both ways. But I never eat the strings.

 

[Third Coast]

I consume two bananas per day.

I typically will cut one banana in half, peel one half, remove the strings, break that into three relatively equal pieces and add it to my protein smoothie. I peel the other half, remove the strings, slice it symmetrically down the middle and place the two halves in the middle of a cinnamon raisin english muffin, making a cinnamon raisin banana sandwich.

The second banana is peeled completely, the strings removed, sliced into bite size pieces and placed in my bowl of multi grain Cheerios.

I usually will do the latter first at breakfast and the former later in the day after working out. This is my daily life with bananas and probably more information than you require.

 

[IRC]

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[Bluepies]

I hold the banana in my left hand and peel with my right, as far down as I can go while still holding it with my left hand, which is about halfway down. I eat 'till I get there, then peel little by little until there's about two inches left, then remove the peel entirely and hold the fruit in my fingers. I never eat the tip at the bottom.

If there's a string with a dangling end, I peel it off. If there's a string that's flush with the fruit, I don't bother.

 

[Longhorny630]

i dont eat, i just lick the banana.

 

[Texanne]

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[GemStateJim]

If you eat your nanners when they still have some green to them, you don't have to worry about the strings because they remain attached to the peel.

Monkeys supposedly eat their bananas bottom first because it's apparently easier to peel a banana from the bottom than from the stem end.

I hope this was the level of thought and reflection you were seeking.

 

[Longhorny630]

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[accuratehorn]

Finally, a thread with real apeel.

 

[Third Coast]

After doing some research on this to see what professional athletes prefer, it appears that maria sharapova peels her's halfway, but doesn't seem to remove the strings - at least I think that's a string.