# Is it wierd to build your own hand of bananas? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 13, 2018, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-wierd-to-build-your-own-hand-of-bananas/822910 "2018-10-13T19:35:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-wierd-to-build-your-own-hand-of-bananas/822910/61 "2018-10-17T04:09:23Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > And then there is _Hand Banana:_ > > \*Tonight... you.\* Can you back that up? ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-wierd-to-build-your-own-hand-of-bananas/822910/62 "2018-10-17T08:57:48Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > How are the remaining bunches too small to sell? The fact that people are doing this is, itself, evidence that small bunches can and do sell. Single bananas tend to get damaged easier. Also I’ve noticed a phenomenon locally where people will want a single banana, but will ignore the pile of single ones and pull one off a bunch themselves, often without a lot of care, sometimes even opening other bananas on the bunch in the process. What tends to happen is a pile of slightly damaged single bananas accumulate, and no-one buys them unless they get marked down, plus the odd open one which no one will buy regardless. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-wierd-to-build-your-own-hand-of-bananas/822910/63 "2018-10-17T13:28:56Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > Single bananas tend to get damaged easier. Also I’ve noticed a phenomenon locally where people will want a single banana, but will ignore the pile of single ones and pull one off a bunch themselves, often without a lot of care, sometimes even opening other bananas on the bunch in the process. > > What tends to happen is a pile of slightly damaged single bananas accumulate, and no-one buys them unless they get marked down, plus the odd open one which no one will buy regardless. My grandfather (also worked at our store. Big family business), would call out customers on that (grabbing a single one off a bunch when he had made a nice pile of 20 single bananas 6 inches away. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-wierd-to-build-your-own-hand-of-bananas/822910/64 "2018-10-17T13:45:49Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > Not only does it not help – refrigeration makes them go brown. I think there’s a column about it somewhere here… What people often say about refrigerating bananas is that “_The outside turns brown quick, but the inside stays perfect!_” That’s only true if one’s idea of “perfect” is “firm, but still tasting overripe”. Which some people prefer, different strokes and all that. If you’re looking to use bananas for baking or for making smoothies, refrigerating them probably makes a lot more sense. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-wierd-to-build-your-own-hand-of-bananas/822910/65 "2018-10-17T14:02:36Z")
The inside of a refrigerated overripe banana is better than the inside of an unrefrigerated banana of the same age, but either is still far inferior to a banana at the proper stage of ripeness. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-wierd-to-build-your-own-hand-of-bananas/822910.md?page=3)