Stalk end – and can’t say I’ve ever considered the “other” end as an option (until now) – despite the difficulty sometimes incurred whilst breaking into bigger ‘nanas!

this is why I still love this place... where else would you get the great banana debate?    Now.... I don't eat many bananas, but I think I'm going to have to get some today.  Question - how do you break into the blunt end?  The stalk end seems to have an obvious 'handle' for tearing.    

Always peeled bananas from the stalk end. They tend to give me stomach ache, so I rarely eat them nowadays.

The stalk end seems to be the best option for the initial purchase, so that's where I start.

I am also very careful not to make eye-contact whilst eating a banana ...

Could I ask if you are European?

I think I can guess the answer.

I had always assumed the stalk end was the place to start, it just looks so right, it's not though, I feel so foolish now after all these years.

You don't have to 'break into' the blunt end it is just waiting, almost imploringly, to be peeled from that end, the skin just comes away with the slightest pressure applied.

I refuse  to call it the 'other' end, it seems very unkind to me , as if it's not a proper end in it's own right.

I quite enjoyed the mental image you left us with Trigs.

But so often Kaffs, it doesn't tear it just mangles up and leaves you with a floppy,squishy mushy mess. and you end up not eating many bananas, a banana a day makes your hair go curly, btw.

Were you asking that question specifically of me Jackson?   

Same for me  there's not much food I can eat these days that don't give me stomach ache 

I've read this somewhere before, i think Monkeys etc peel their narna's that way round too.

It's ingrained in me though to peel from the stalk end.

My intention was to ask all the stalkers.

I will try this and thinking about it - it makes perfect sense - you then get to hold the stalk while eating 

I sometimes skin  completely and slice and sprinkle with sugar and have it in a wholemeal brown sarnie - thats lunch now sorted today 

Hahaha!  I see. I was gonna remind you that I am Scottish. . . the best type of European!  

This thread has inspired me to approach my bananas from a different angle and for that I am grateful. . .   

Yes who knew bananas had a built in handle! - we will need updates and a youtube clip, if possible regarding your lunch, Mrs H.

Me too.

Wondered if banana sales has increased recently I think at least  3 of you have specifically bought  some today just to try out the 'other' end.

I was too until my fruity epiphany.

All I can say is .... why?

Not only is peeling from what I call the "flower end" the correct way to peel a banana,you can also divide a banana into three equal portions  with out a knife. My mum used to do this when we were kids,she just pulled apart longways and she ended up with three equal parts so there was no arguing from us sprogs.

What about oranges?  I sit for a while squeezing it until you can feel the segments detach from the inside of the rind, then I pull the stalky bit out of the top so there is hole in the top of the rind, then just suck the segments out. 

Whoa whoa whoa.  Everyone just calm down with this insane talk.  Bananas should be opened by being sliced from head to toe and opened up like a jacket.

I can't get my head around this.

Do you end up with 3 long strips of banana or 3 circular chunks?What is the 'flower' end.

Cinds - That sounds impossible, I cut mine,skin and and all, into quarters then cut out the segments, it gets very messy.

It's not, plus it stops all the mess.  Try it 

This thread is funny 

I quarter an orange then get me chops round it and pick it off the rind with my teeth

I bite into the orange skin and then peel it all . And I peel bananas from the stalk down

I have never thought about what end I peel a nana from but I love dunking them in yoghurt  don't do oranges

Doesn't that make your mouth recoil  and feel all pithy?

You end up with three long strips, and the flower end is where the flower was before the fruit grew, the opposite end to the stalk. 

I do shudder a bit JC But it's something I've always done ....but I tend to buy satsuma s , or mandarins these days ..rather than * big* oranges ....cos they peel easier  

Yeah, I tend to buy seedless satsumas too Baz 

That's how chimps do it!

Like you were opening a bag of crisps!

I can't stop singing Bananas in pyjamas now 

I grip the stalk with my teeth and wrench it downwards to start the peeling process. Must be my inner animal

but you're an alien 

 Oh aye... true. Roger could kick a banana's ass though!

Blunt end??? That's 'blue sky thinking' for you!  I've never even considered the blunt end - ever  - after hundreds of bananas.  That's shifted the banana peeling paradigm for me!  

I love bananas and they're good for us  I learnt about peeling them from the other end quite some time ago, that's where a species of monkey peels them from and monkeys are often more intelligent than some humans