this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2025
574 points (99.5% liked)

Science Memes

14039 readers
2779 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.

Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
574
Banaynays (mander.xyz)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
12 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Is this true? I’m not sure why anyone would lie about such a thing, but, still… is it true?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

According to the wikipedia page for isoamyl acetate, it is both responsible for the banana smell and is the chemical honey bees use to tell other bees to sting, so at least the logic for the post is sound.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I hate bananas anyway so good enough for me. Still gotta force em down occasionally bc healthy, of course.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yes, it's absolutely impossible to live a healthy life without eating bananas and liquorice believe it or not. You actually have to consume loads of liquorice to stay healthy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Have you tried pairing them with peanut butter, and possibly a couple slices of bread? I like both peanut butter bananas, and peanut butter and banana sandwiches, but don't care for bananas by themselves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Peanut butter jelly time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Peanut butter makes em bearable in like a shake, but otherwise not for me. It helps with the flavor, but not the texture.

And honestly I can just slam one down no problem now, just not my favorite thing, but they're amazing for recovery after working out so I do it anyway.

Banana scents/fake flavors are even worse tho, absolutely disgusting to me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. There was a restaurant near me that had a hive in their ceiling, and the whole store smelled like banana

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I’m not sure that I would classify that as “proof”. In my life, I have patronized many restaurants that had beehives present, none of which smelled like bananas.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m just saying that I would like to see some evidence that’s a little bit more substantial/conclusive.

Edit: removed the patronizing part

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

You know, as I was typing that out, I was thinking "why would anyone believe me".

The complete events that unfolded sound like a story where everyone clapped for me, so instead of sounding like a kid making shit up, I'll just say, it smelled like bananas, I told someone the bees thing, and a week later the place shut down for a few days while a massive honeycomb/hive was removed from the ceiling.

I read about the smell on cracked in like 2008 and just parroted the info later, which turned out to be true, at least in this case.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I searched it and the consensus is an astounding yes, this is somewhat true. Here’s an interesting article from a guy (take it with a grain of isoamyl acetate) that suggests it’s not as bad to eat bananas around bees. 🍌🐝 🍌 🐝