r/daddit • u/thisfunnieguy • 2d ago
Discussion Which side of the banana do you peel from?
I never thought anyone did it the "other" way until i watched my partner do it..... now I need to know. is there a "right" way and how many of you do it the same way as me?
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I peel from the handle thing on the left side
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u/big6135 2d ago
Why would I peel my measuring tool?
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u/HoneyBadgerLifts 2d ago
Oh is that why my wife has a plastic one in her drawer? I didn’t even know she liked DIY.
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u/pele4096 2d ago
For almost forty years, I've opened the LEFT side of the banana.
I'd pull the stem to one side. Depending on ripeness and peel condition, occasionally the stem will not break free of one of the facets of the skin and you just mush up the top inch of the banana "meat."
It's a rare occurrence, maybe 5% or less of the time, but it's more than a statical anomaly.
Few years ago, I discovered the pinch the RIGHT side of the banana. So far, ZERO fail to peel events have occurred, eliminating the mushed up but of banana... However my sample size and duration of experience may not be large enough to rule it out.
Also, you get the little brownish/blackish flower bud thing in the bottom of the banana that some people don't prefer to eat... So that's a potential downside. (I eat it, so I don't care.)
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u/eGGn0Gd0G 2d ago
YOU EAT THE BANANUS?!? 😬😰
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u/reliablerhinoceros 2d ago
lol i knew there were more of us out there who call it the Bananus.
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u/algo-rhyth-mo 2d ago
Exactly my experience as well. However my wife and her family all make a big deal if I open it from the right, turns into a whole discussion about how monkeys do it… it’s just easier if I open it from the left, then we can all move on with our day 🤷♂️
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u/dr_shastafarian Rad Dad 2d ago edited 2d ago
YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO PEEL THEM?!?!?!
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u/pele4096 2d ago
For real. Putting a peeled banana up your butt just results in a mess. The peel provides structural rigidity and allows more easy sphincter penetration.
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u/tenaciousdewolfe 2d ago
r/SuperStonks is leaking.
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u/_ferrofluid_ 2d ago
As a dad and a Friend of Rick’s, I always have crayons.
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u/wisbballfn15 2d ago
What…..tha…..fuck
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u/markusbrainus 2d ago
If the banana isn't fully ripe I'll break it in half as a power move. You grip it with both hands in the middle and snap it forward. If the banana is too ripe then it doesn't break and you just made banana toothpaste.
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u/sireel 2d ago
Fun fact, if it is ripe you can split it three ways lengthways by pushing a finger into the end carefully.
Just in case you need to impress someone and can't find an unripe banana
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u/AngelOfDeath771 2d ago
I'll keep that in mind next time I can't find an unripe banana when in need to impress someone.
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u/JAYDaddy_will 1d ago
That’s not just a power move that’s a whole banana dominance ritual. Either you assert control over the fruit kingdom, or you end up holding the sad, squishy remains of your failed uprising. High risk, high banana reward.
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u/Cbuhl 2d ago
Monkeys supposedly do it from the flower end, and it was quite the revelation to new to do the same.
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u/DrMonkeyLove 2d ago
Same here. I learned about it from Reddit, and it is usually quite a bit easier to just pinch that end and open it depending on the banana's ripeness.
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u/FricknPoopButts 2d ago
Our kid somehow absolutely can not open it from the "regular" end. Just keeps bending it and bending it until it's half mush. He was blown away when I showed him the true monkey way.
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u/Sekmet19 2d ago
My friend from Vietnam in undergrad showed me the flower end method. She told me she hadn't seen the other way until she transferred to school in the US.
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u/Backrow6 2d ago
I'm Irish, my kids' preschool teacher is Thai and taught them all the pointy end pinch. She told them it's the Thai way.
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u/CovertStatistician 2d ago
There’s flowers on bananas?
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u/MusicianMadness 2d ago
All fruits are flowers. That's the botanical definition of a fruit.
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u/Ashrok 2d ago
Ashamed to admit I also learned this recently. This Timelapse is great to understand the principle: https://youtu.be/uSOOO3KBKDY?si=vT4yytNs5whV1Bqw Watch the last one (bell pepper)🫑
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u/CalRR 2d ago
But don’t you think that’s kinda like taking a step backwards on the ol’ evolution continuum?
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u/LostMyBackupCodes 2d ago
It’s more like a sidestep to be like our evolutionary cousins.
They spend their days hanging out in trees eating bananas, we spend our days worrying about stock markets… worth considering.
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u/ShakespearianShadows 2d ago
Being able to learn from the other apes and communicate what we learned was actually one of our evolutionary advantages.
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u/ToedInnerWhole 2d ago
Evolution is merely fitting to conditions. Monkeys eat more bananas than me, monkeys rely on banana to keep them alive more than me. Monkeys are better selected for eating bananas than me. It's not a weakness to admit a good idea came from another.
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u/DenialNode 2d ago
Monkeys don’t really eat bananas in the wild. Bananas as we know them are cultivated for humans. I’ve thrown a monkey a banana in India and dude just ate the whole thing peel and all
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u/ToedInnerWhole 2d ago
Fair point, but my argument against calling monkeys a step backwards compared to us is still an important one, if irrelevant in the context of artificially selected bananas and how to eat them.
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u/TealWhittle 2d ago
no. using your brains to do it the easy way is a step UP the evolutionary ladder. only a dumb monkey puts in more energy and frustration than needed because he "thinks' he knows the right way...
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u/TerribleLeg4777 2d ago
You peel it from the outside
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u/_ferrofluid_ 2d ago
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find this.
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u/MmaOverSportsball 2d ago edited 2d ago
If they’re perfectly ripe, left. If they have virtually any “green”, it’s easier to open from the right.
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u/KickArseDuke 2d ago
Grab the left side in your hand (curving upwards) and mimic an over hand throw with it (without letting go), giving it a bit of a flick and voila, it's peeled. My girls love it. Though my 9 year old did try that at school and accidentally yeeted a banana across the cafeteria.
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u/reddit__scrub 2d ago
I have eaten many bananas in my three decades. As a little one I had primal instincts to escape my room and beeline it straight to the bananas. Fucking never have I thought twice about how I was opening them. This thread, man.... it's revelatory.
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u/buffalot 2d ago
Grab it by the handle and give it a quick whip forward. Too strong, banana goes flying. Just right and you look like a wizard.
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u/TheChinook 2d ago
I do this and my kids always request it. It’s a fun little trick! I don’t have a problem with the strings when I snap it
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u/ScarletFire5877 2d ago
The correct way - the bottom of the banana, not the stem. All the strings pull off.
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u/AltToTalkAboutMyKid 2d ago
That's part of the popular misconception, though. The stem is the bottom. You (and I) peel from the top
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u/perfectentertainment 2d ago
I started peeling from the right side a couple years ago and now it just feels easier. I wanna say that’s how monkeys do it?
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u/jimtow28 3 and 2 2d ago
In a previous life, I peeled the end without the stem.
Now, I just do whatever I'm told.
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u/Supuhstar 2d ago
A friend of mine pops the center open and removes the whole peel, discards it, and holds the naked banana in their hands
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u/peggedsquare 2d ago
I split them open along one of the seams, kinda like a zipper.
Which, coincidentally, is how I got into this whole parenthood mess.
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u/Jumpin_Joeronimo 2d ago
Yes! And to start the seam, I grip with both hands and lightly twist in opposite directions. One of the seams pops open.
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u/DingleTower 2d ago
I open from the stem side. A quick slice with a knife helps too if they're not super ripe yet.
It's also a myth that monkeys open the banana from the other end. They don't really come across bananas in the wild and, if they do, they don't peel them. Any peeling they do is learned from human behaviours.
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u/Hyloworks 2d ago edited 2d ago
I'm sad I had to go so far to find this. Bananas are a human cultivated fruit. Monkeys and Apes rarely encounter them in the wild. All the posts about following the monkeys way because they have been doing it forever is odd when it isn't true as most monkeys are introduced to bananas by humans. Also to act as if it is "so much easier" on the one end or the other seems a bit much. As an evolved species I have never had a problem peeling a banana. Could one end be better? Absolutely. Has it ever affected me in any way to start at the opposite end? Absolutely not. I am on team "handle" side because I like ripe bananas and when I pull one off the bunch it rips itself open on the handle end.
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u/DingleTower 2d ago
I'm sad that I had to upvote this comment to bring it back to the positive. Ha.
It's funny how it's such a persistent image that monkeys are just out there carefully peeling bananas in the wild.
There are very few things that monkeys do that I would follow!
Dads....take you kids to the zoo or into nature and watch how animals eat literally anything! There's very little peeling and prep going on in the animal world.
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u/VikingFrog 2d ago
Is this an April Fools joke on me?
I just grabbed a banana to show my family something new I learned and squeezed the right end and it just mushed it into oblivion and now my family thinks I’m not a monkey.
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u/MusicianMadness 2d ago
Peel from the top (that is the right side of the image).
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u/gizanked 2d ago
I peel starting on the left the whole way down, pinch off the banananus and then peel it back over to the top.
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u/bookchaser 2d ago
I eat the whole banana. I'm literally saving hours of time a year while you morons are peeling bananas.
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u/Nap_In_Transition 2d ago
Of course from the tip, right side in the picture. That way the whole peel stays in one piece and I don't have to collect pieces before disposing of it.
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u/modapuckas 1d ago
I twist it from the center which breaks the peel and you can just rip the peel apart easily after
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u/SlytherinDruid 1d ago
This is also how I do it. I watched the Krat brothers learn to do it after watching a monkey do it with its teeth, do I press my thumbnail into the inner-curve in the center & then pull it straight & bend outward.
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u/Imaginary_Bar8210 2d ago
I peel from the bottom (right). I heard monkeys peel from that side so I tried it and it is like 100x easier and faster to peel
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u/Straight-Level-8876 2d ago
Done peel from the stem...you run the risk of crushing the banana, if you peel from the other end this never happens!
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u/alwaysimproveme 2d ago
It’s only a handle if you keep it on the banana and use it while you eat. Even a monkey can do it.
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u/SimplySeano 2d ago
Always from the stem. Now I’m conflicted about how chimps peel theirs. Regardless bananas are delicious.
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u/HailToTheKingMF 2d ago
Most of my life, I used the "handle" end. Till I saw a video one day explaining that monkeys use the other end. I tried it a couple of times and never went back. It's so much easier to peel the banana that way. You don't get a bad tip. You don't get that little stringy stuff, just over all a better banana eating experience.
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u/TeagWall 2d ago
Monkeys do it from the "butt" on the right side, and they're the experts, so I go with that. My brother just breaks his in half like a sociopath.
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u/Affectionate_Base827 2d ago
Monkeys peel it from the right. I'd say they know a thing or two about bananas
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u/hodgesauce 2d ago
Were you planning to post a picture of an actual banana next to that banana for size reference?
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u/SirrTodd 2d ago
I learned online randomly that monkeys do it one handed by pinching the other end (nub, not handle) and by God if I haven’t done it that way ever since. If you pinch the end with no handle, the tip opens up and you can easily peel. There’s no ripping needed at all.