# Do you de-string a banana? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 20, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-de-string-a-banana/743720 "2016-01-20T23:24:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-de-string-a-banana/743720/41 "2016-01-22T17:44:53Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I hate bananas; once you skin them and throw the bone away, there’s nothing left to eat. If I was eating a banana when I read that it would be all over my screen right now. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-de-string-a-banana/743720/42 "2016-01-22T20:21:52Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I’ve heard lots of people say they hate bananas. These people are clearly deficient, but they do exist. And what they usually say is “I don’t mind the flavor - I like other banana flavored things-, but I can’t get past the texture”. Yup. And I’ll have you know the only thing deficient in me is my potassium levels :D. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-de-string-a-banana/743720/43 "2016-01-22T21:15:47Z")
How do people get so finicky about their food? There’s another thread about drinking milk after a cat. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-de-string-a-banana/743720/44 "2016-01-22T21:53:17Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Yes, and I also destring my oranges, mandarins and the like. I love oranges but it takes me way longer to peel, de-pith and de-string them than it does to eat them. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-de-string-a-banana/743720/45 "2016-01-23T01:05:10Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > Lifehack recommends doing the opposite end for the aforementioned handle reason, and because that’s how monkeys in the wild supposedly do it (and who knows bananas better than they?). Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle’s nephew! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-de-string-a-banana/743720/46 "2016-01-23T01:38:04Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > How do people get so finicky about their food? There’s another thread about drinking milk after a cat. Because they _can_? I don’t mean that to be as snarky as it sounds, but how is this trivial, silly little issue considered “so finicky” and why would one not eat something the way they find it most pleasing? As for the milk thread, I think that’s more about how grossed out or not people are about drinking something after their butt licking, mouse chewing overlord has transferred his funk unto the glass, i.e. how grossed out are you by your pet’s mouth? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-de-string-a-banana/743720/47 "2016-01-23T03:33:45Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I’ve heard lots of people say they hate bananas. These people are clearly deficient, but they do exist. And what they usually say is “I don’t mind the flavor - I like other banana flavored things-, but I can’t get past the texture”. It’s the strings I tells ya. I do not get the texture thing at all. I’ve heard about this before, but it boggles my mind: texture? I’m not trying to be flippant or dismissive, but texture? That’s like saying you don’t like … well, I can’t even think of an analogy. Texture? Don’t most people eat ice cream and crunch peanuts with no issues between? I’ll never understand the texture angle. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-de-string-a-banana/743720/48 "2016-01-23T03:52:23Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I do not get the texture thing at all. I’ve heard about this before, but it boggles my mind: texture? > > I’m not trying to be flippant or dismissive, but texture? That’s like saying you don’t like … well, I can’t even think of an analogy. Texture? Don’t most people eat ice cream and crunch peanuts with no issues between? > > I’ll never understand the texture angle. Oh; so you’re one of those uncivilized string eaters!😉 Wellllll, it will take someone \*far \*smarter than I to explain this, but I think the whole eating experience encompasses a lot of different factors. So, it’s not just the literal taste - i.e. the particular taste buds that are pinged- but the whole package, including how it smells, how it feels when you’re teeth grind down on it, the way it does or does not dissolve in one’s mouth (I think this is all covered by the overused, obnoxious term “mouth feel”). Can you think of anything that, the overall flavor is okay but there’s _something_ about it that you don’t care for? For me, I like the flavor of most berries but the seeds are off putting. Pear is an awesome flavor but there’s a certain feeling, almost like grit or something, that I detect when I chew on it. I love bananas but it’s not at all hard for me to understand why many people hate them. They are weird. They’re mushy, and leave kind of a furry residue in your mouth, and god forbid you get a string. . . Sorry if that doesn’t make sense; I have no doubt someone will explain it coherently. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-de-string-a-banana/743720/49 "2016-01-23T06:03:32Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I do not get the texture thing at all. I’ve heard about this before, but it boggles my mind: texture? Yeah, if it just isn’t an issue for you ever I’m sure it is hard to relate. But it is pretty common, I think. > [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Pear is an awesome flavor but there’s a certain feeling, almost like grit or something, that I detect when I chew on it. [Sclereids](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sclereid) ;). Bananas, particularly ripe ones, have to me an off-putting sliminess. I can even detect the texture in smoothies\*. Used to be I could eat under-ripe, slightly green bananas. But I just don’t bother anymore as I’m an adult and am allowed to be unreasonably picky at my age. Since I like most other fruit it isn’t an issue. I love pears for example. And I’ll happily eat stuff like fried plantains. - A friend, scoffing at this notion, once attempted to fool me with a home-made smoothie with a tiny amount of banana masked by stronger fruit flavors. I picked it out immediately :D. It was such a small amount it didn’t bother me much, but he was shocked I could actually detect it at all. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-de-string-a-banana/743720/50 "2016-01-23T13:35:20Z")
For once, I’m with Fenris. I peel off the ones that start coming off while peeling, but otherwise don’t care. They’re flavorless, and they don’t stay stringy when you chew them, so they’re harmless. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-de-string-a-banana/743720/51 "2016-01-23T13:58:28Z")
When I peel a banana, the strings roll up into another dimension. They’re still there, just not interacting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-de-string-a-banana/743720.md?page=2)