Do you wash your bananas??

[Mangetout]

@cochrane

I should have figured. I doubt there’s anything that you haven’t tried.

I’m not actually as adventurous as all that - trying benign things like banana skin is one thing. There are others (balut, for example) that don’t really tickle my fancy.

But there must be a reason that even monkeys peel bananas.

Comic effect aside, it’s the same reason we do - the inside part is sweet and easy to eat - the skin - not so much.

[kayaker]

@cochrane

But there must be a reason that even monkeys peel bananas.

When you have an opposable thumb you just gotta show it off.

[Jackmannii]

[QUOTE=Channing Idaho Banks]
You want to take a clean banana with you
[/QUOTE]
Sounds like a line from a Spike Jones song.

Remember kiddies, if you’re intent on recreating the '60s, always wash banana skins before you smoke them. You don’t want to inhale Dole Toxins.

[x-ray_vision]

@Enola_Gay

I wash my bananas & here is why: Every time I have bananas in the house, we end up with fruit flies all over the kitchen. Then I read somewhere that bananas have fruit fly eggs on them & if you wash them when you bring them home from the market, the fruit flies eggs will be washed off and no fruit flies will be born. I’ve been doing this for a couple years now & IT WORKS!! I am happily fruit fly free.

Same here. Been washing my bananas for years.

Also, how many people always wash their hands after eating a banana?

[Doctor_Jackson]

It’s much sexier if one doesn’t use hands at all while eating a banana…

[panache45]

And don’t eat it sideways, like Amy Farrah Fowler.

[purplehearingaid]

I don’t but I should wash them .

Should You Be Washing Your Bananas? - Food & Nutrition Magazine

[BigT]

Not for eating purposes. Yes if there’s something on it. And obviously not after I’ve peeled them, as that makes them mushy and gross (I’d assume).

The skin doesn’t just taste bad. It’s waxy and hard to eat. Orange skin actually not that hard to eat (and we even sometimes use it as zest), but banana skin is. I doubt we digest it well, either. So why bother?

[Guinastasia]

@jtur88

I don’t even peel them. Mostly, I eat them in smoothies. I freeze them, and put them in the blender frozen.

When I take a banana out of the freezer, I run it under the tap water for a few seconds, just to slightly thaw the outer layer,. Then, the paper-thin outer coating of the peel comes off easily. But sometimes I don’t even bother doing that. And no, I don’t wash them before I freeze them.

I don’t wash anything before I eat it. Maybe potatoes, since I never peel them, if they look and feel like they might have earth on them I rinse frozen veggies, to remove any fridge-frost. I have a five-year rule, for anything dropped on the floor or down under the sofa cushions, or forgotten in mousetraps.

Did you just say you eat food out of mousetraps? WTF?!?! (That’s been there for 5 years?!?!)

[RobDog]

@Guinastasia

Did you just say you eat food out of mousetraps? WTF?!?! (That’s been there for 5 years?!?!)

Oh the food out of mousetraps. I just assumed he was eating the victims.

[Sunny_Daze]

@Guinastasia

Did you just say you eat food out of mousetraps? WTF?!?! (That’s been there for 5 years?!?!)

Look at the entire sentence - it’s not just mousetraps (although I completely missed all of it the first time I read his response).

I have a five-year rule, for anything dropped on the floor or down under the sofa cushions, or forgotten in mousetraps.

On the floor or under the sofa cushions is also ok for 5 years. How do you tell if food has been dropped on the floor or down under the sofa cushions, or forgotten in mousetraps for 5 years or less? I give up. How do you tell?

[Princhester]

@panache45

Unless you’re speaking metaphorically, no.

You owe me a new keyboard. Well, you would except I wasn’t drinking anything at the time I read this. Oh, and I’m on an ipad so there is no keyboard. But apart from that you would totally owe me a new keyboard.