I’ve been trying this the past couple days – it may be effective, but you can’t doing it without smushing a little bit of banana into your fingers. Which is weird in the workplace (where I eat most of my bananas)
I’ve gone back to the traditional method. It may be a little clumsier, but keeps your hands clean.
ps – it may sound like it, but I’m not at all a neat freak. Just don’t like slimy fingers at work / wasting napkins.
What a shame we humans have put ourselves at the centre of the universe. Think of all the other things we have to learn from animals and plants, if only we’d just listen.
A good example of the “AHHA” effect.
So often the simplest solutions are the hardest to see.
Good job on the video, short and to the point.
Entertaining as life is at times.
The monkey boxer shorts, his banana popping out?
Makes me wonder about the audience more than anything.
What’s on your minds other than “How to peel a Banana”?
I’ve opened bananas that way for a while now after I read somewhere that opening from the bottom also avoids having the little stringy pieces on the sides of the banana.
I am for years trying to teach people how to peel banana’s.
It does not work.
Up till know I was able to convince only a few people (amongst whom my own son Jankees and one chinese college in Chenyang.)
People do not want to use this method.
I am certain that it is the only right way to do it. It is more elegant and I am conviced that the banana is more tasty.
Thank you very much for this nice video .
regards
Jan van Woezik
Fabulous!~ Thanks so much for sharing that. It’s been driving me crazy my whole life that I couldn’t peel a banana good enough! LOL And I also got my laugh of the day from reading the other comments. Totally cracks me up that instead of just taking the suggestion and saying thank you people noticed what the guy was wearing.
yes.now I do too. Must teach my cat. He can’t even open his pouch of food. Need a banana to use as a smoothie for my spirulina. So monk-y-monks do have sleeves.
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O. M. G. How can peeling a banana blow my mind.
What else are monkey’s doing the “right way” that we should be paying attention to?
Jul 15th, 2009 / 3:25 pm
wow. learn something new every day!
Jul 15th, 2009 / 3:25 pm
Great. I did, however, see this video earlier this week, on Facebook.
Jul 15th, 2009 / 3:31 pm
I’ve been trying this the past couple days – it may be effective, but you can’t doing it without smushing a little bit of banana into your fingers. Which is weird in the workplace (where I eat most of my bananas)
I’ve gone back to the traditional method. It may be a little clumsier, but keeps your hands clean.
ps – it may sound like it, but I’m not at all a neat freak. Just don’t like slimy fingers at work / wasting napkins.
Jul 15th, 2009 / 3:38 pm
Dude, put on some pants maybe.
Jul 15th, 2009 / 3:51 pm
that is so simple, yet so mind blowing
Jul 15th, 2009 / 4:11 pm
re: Lack of pants
Uhhh, monkey boxers are crucial to the video.
Jul 15th, 2009 / 4:17 pm
My girlfriend knows that trick. Come to think of it pretty much all my girlfriends knew that trick. Wives forget.
Jul 15th, 2009 / 4:51 pm
I liked the monkey boxers too! Just glad his banana didn’t pop out!
Jul 15th, 2009 / 7:52 pm
What a shame we humans have put ourselves at the centre of the universe. Think of all the other things we have to learn from animals and plants, if only we’d just listen.
Jul 15th, 2009 / 8:02 pm
@ Libby Andrews. Hilarious. That particular clip would have been found on a different sort of site. :P
Jul 15th, 2009 / 9:03 pm
A good example of the “AHHA” effect.
So often the simplest solutions are the hardest to see.
Good job on the video, short and to the point.
Entertaining as life is at times.
The monkey boxer shorts, his banana popping out?
Makes me wonder about the audience more than anything.
What’s on your minds other than “How to peel a Banana”?
Jul 16th, 2009 / 4:47 am
Is there a chance that this is a Chiquita viral?
Jul 16th, 2009 / 5:58 am
I’ve opened bananas that way for a while now after I read somewhere that opening from the bottom also avoids having the little stringy pieces on the sides of the banana.
Jul 16th, 2009 / 7:27 am
Learning something new everyday. :)
Jul 16th, 2009 / 9:59 am
Awesome, I saw this on mumbletomyneighbor.com last week. It is a great way to do it and works really well.
check out mumbletomyneighbor.com, it is a funny blog too…
Jul 16th, 2009 / 10:20 am
OHHHH I am in heaven. Thank you T
Jul 16th, 2009 / 10:41 am
I am for years trying to teach people how to peel banana’s.
It does not work.
Up till know I was able to convince only a few people (amongst whom my own son Jankees and one chinese college in Chenyang.)
People do not want to use this method.
I am certain that it is the only right way to do it. It is more elegant and I am conviced that the banana is more tasty.
Thank you very much for this nice video .
regards
Jan van Woezik
Jul 16th, 2009 / 11:01 am
Fabulous!~ Thanks so much for sharing that. It’s been driving me crazy my whole life that I couldn’t peel a banana good enough! LOL And I also got my laugh of the day from reading the other comments. Totally cracks me up that instead of just taking the suggestion and saying thank you people noticed what the guy was wearing.
Jul 16th, 2009 / 12:04 pm
i refuse to change! its like opening a bag of crisps upside down, you just know something bad is going to happen!
Jul 16th, 2009 / 12:54 pm
Well I’ll be damned, that is quite brilliant.
@Richard, bananas grow upwards from the stem while on the tree; you’ve been opening them upside down all this time.
Jul 16th, 2009 / 2:57 pm
yes.now I do too. Must teach my cat. He can’t even open his pouch of food. Need a banana to use as a smoothie for my spirulina. So monk-y-monks do have sleeves.
Jul 17th, 2009 / 12:40 am
Old news. I’ve known about this for many years.
There’s much to learn from the animal kingdom. The hard part is paying attention.
Thought for the day –
The more you complain, the longer God lets you live.
Jul 17th, 2009 / 9:32 am
This is great! I knew this because this is how people open their bananas in the Philippines!
Jul 17th, 2009 / 10:06 am
LOL! I guess we can always learn something from the wild :)
Jul 19th, 2009 / 3:45 pm
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