Bananas

[susiespider]

Most weeks when I go shopping, I buy bananas and there is always someone standing there desperately, and with great difficulty, trying to cram their bananas into a small plastic bag. I just wondered what on earth is the point of putting bananas into a plastic bag? Any theories or is it just a rebellion against saving the planet?

[poodicat]

Knew that karen,sorry to steal your thunder lol..

[4getmenot]

thats why I keep my bananas away, other fruit lasts longer

[joggerjayne]

You gave me a bit of a kicking, Butch !!

[boxtops]

Re the bag question, I always used to cram them in a sales bag, but now I don't bother - why take a bag if you don't need it? I just put my hand of bananas straight into the trolley. I like them yellow-green so they are still firm but (like susie's dad) my mum used to love them really soft. I buy a hand a week so I can eat one every day - they were on offer last week so I put one hand in the fridge. The skin goes black and looks really nasty, but the flesh inside stays firm.
It's pears I have the problem with - Eddie Izzard said once something like "you put them in the fruit bowl and they are stiff as bricks. One morning you look at them and they've gone to mush" - very true, I can never catch them at just the right moment. (and if I may add, lowering the tone as I sometimes do - a pear is a superb laxative. Not going? - have a ripe pear, and give it an hour....)

[boxtops]

what we need is one of these
http://www.lakeland.c...DEFAULT/product/12159
or one of these
http://www.guardian.c...ure=350769080&index=1
(or go to the next picture left on the second link, you too can have the Virgin Mary imprinted on your toast..... ;-)