I order my bananas online from bananastore dot com. They have pictures of the bananas, and you pick out which ones you like and they send them to you parcel post, please allow four to six weeks for delivery, minimum 500 lbs.
Now that’s a strange method of buying bananas.
Unless you are making million loaves of banana bread. 
Strange because they’d be shipping you twelve and a half cases.
And you have to pay in Danish Kroners, it’s the only currency they’ll accept. I don’t know how this guy stays in business, I’m serious.
I was attacked with a banana once. Fortunately I had taken a course on how to defend myself against someone armed with fresh fruit, and it turned out to be very effective. I enjoyed eating the banana afterwards too.
Enjoy,
Steven
The bunches bananas are in at the grocery store are pretty arbitrary, aren’t they? Bananas grow in much larger bunches ~100-200 bananas per bunch. So where they cut them to sell in convenient clumps shouldn’t matter.
This lady is slicker than y’all are giving her credit for.
She likes to eat her bananas at a prescribed level of ripeness. Therefore, she must make her selections so they incorporate varying degrees of ripicity ™.
So you see, she is selecting her Monday banana, her Tuesday banana, her Wednesday banana…
mmm
Okay, that explains a few things.
I think I am being whooshed a lot in this thread.
I read the OP and assumed the character in the story was tired of buying bruised bananas, and was picking out the ones in the middle of the bunch that are protected by the others. That’s what I do.
I once had a theory, unproven, that if I bought individual bananas, each from a separate hand, they would have more resistance to any environmental effect that would hasten their spoilage. More so than if they were stored along with their brethren with the same DNA.
Of course, one wants bananas to age relatively quickly because greenish from the store, they are not yet ready to eat. But then once they fleck, you don’t want one banana to infect another with some malady that it is not resistant to, and have them all get too ripe too quickly.
I also picked out individuals and broke off the stem, so I wouldn’t have to pay a few cents for the weight of the inedible stem parts. I probably saved a dollar a year doing that.
Green tip bananas are gross
The problem with your theory is that all common bananas (i.e., generic bananas, rather than specific boutique brands) share exactly the same DNA, since all Cavendish bananas are cloned from the same plant. :smack:
This is why the next great banana blight will completely eliminate bananas as we know them. It’s a case of monoculture to the absolute absurd extreme.
Bananas come in “hands”.
I go even farther than the occasional banana picking. If I’m making something that calls for, say, 1/4 cup of parsley or cilantro or other herb that only comes in huge bunches, I pull a few sprigs out of the bunch and throw it in a plastic bag and get charged the ‘loose herbs’ price. I see no point in buying a huge amount and then throwing it away. The next person gets shorted a small amount, but I feel no guilt over it.
I don’t reduce it to a single day but I usually buy 2-3 bananas of several degrees of ripeness rather than all the same degree. Usually they are already broken off a hand so I just grab a couple ripe ones, a couple still green and some half ripe ones. Gives me a week of perfectly ripe bananas.
Who are we to judge them by what they do for recreation?
