# How ripe do you like your bananas? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-ripe-do-you-like-your-bananas/653304 "2013-03-18T22:18:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-ripe-do-you-like-your-bananas/653304/41 "2013-03-20T22:19:05Z")
I must say that I’m kind of surprised at how evenly distributed the results of the poll are. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-ripe-do-you-like-your-bananas/653304/42 "2013-03-22T03:07:18Z")
I always peel mine first. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-ripe-do-you-like-your-bananas/653304/43 "2013-03-23T01:28:51Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Bananas for me have a very narrow range of acceptable ripeness; the joke at our house is that I have to eat them on the way home from the store. I like them with some green on them, firm of texture and bordering on chalky. As soon as they start to get sweet I don’t like them anymore. I think I am about 12 hours behind you in banana preference. I blame one day working at a produce store when I was fifteen, they had a sale on over ripe bananas and to this day the smell puts me off. But a banana on the first day it gets yellow after being green is heaven. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-ripe-do-you-like-your-bananas/653304.md?page=2)