Put them in the fridge and they’ll last for weeks. They might turn brown after a few days but inside they’ll be fine. Put them in an airtight container and they’ll last even longer in the fridge.
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Even better: Freeze them!!! Seriously, it tastes like banana ice cream. It's delicious!
If it isn't Mr. AI
How are you able to tell
Check dudes profile. Ai bot man
Comment history doesn't seem very AI/botty to me.
But maybe it is me that is the bot.
IDK... They seem like your average low IQ dumbass more than a bot.
I heard the opposite, that separating them ripens them quicker. In my experience this appears to be true.
There's just no way to know! It's impossible for a lone person to generate even a single data point.
What if they do both a thousand times and record results and variables?
A single person could just use each strategy with half of their bananas each time.
Or, ya know, you can just wrap some cellophane around the bunch of stems, and wrap that with a rubber band for extra measure.
Anyways, side note, if you eat a banana (mmm tasty), well mosquitoes will be more attracted to you...
I have type-o blood. I'm already irresistible to mosquitoes, and I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to realize my wife was counting on this when we walked in the woods.
Look just a little further into the comments, I dug up a couple relevant links.
Apparently beer is also on the skeeter menu.. ☹️
I was considering quitting bananas, maybe even my type O blood, but once you mentioned giving up beer, I immediately abandoned thr whole idea.
If you smoke enough weed along with drinking the beer, the skeeters get too stoned and drunk and just fall out of the air, right?
Right?
There's an apocryphal story about the guitarist from The Flaming Lips like this. Apparently, he did so much heroin that mosquitoes would OD on his blood.
I actively blow the smoke out at mosquitos I see in the hopes they get fucked up
I'll see you around the campfire one of these days...
At least somebody gets it 👍
Looks around at my type O blood, regular (but moderated) beer intake, and love for bananas
We'll I'll be damned.
Wait… what!?
This is new to me, any chance you have an article to help me understand the science behind this?
https://www.self.com/story/does-food-affect-mosquito-bites
Well hell, beer is on that mosquito menu too.. ☹️
D’oh! Thanks for the info, now I will have to pick a different drink after mowing.
One of the chemicals that gives bananas their smell is also released when a honey bee stings you, signaling other bees to attack.
Are you telling me some kind of gmo banana could be like a biological weapon? asks Rampant Paranoia
I wouldn't put it out of the realm of possibility, there have also been cases of large swarms of mosquitoes killing cows, hopefully we're a little more peaceful before someone figures out how to use things like this as a weapon
Well, I'm writing something at the moment, and I very well may use this for my botanical witch. 😊
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can you post a picture of what the single banana looks like? how much stem do you leave on each one? nothing? so the tip of the edible fruit is showing?
I'm curious but kind of skeptical tbh
Yeah, wouldn't the increased surface area increase the release of gas making everything ripen faster?
The breakage may cause a loss of moisture and cause a reduction in the amount of stem with enough moisture to produce gas?
TIL
I presume you wanna cut them apart because mine usually don’t separate clean
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My girlfriend breaks them apart into singles and then wraps the calyx of each banana (the place where they all were joined....I'm not sure that calyx is the correct word) with aluminum foil. I don't know if the foil makes any difference though.
You need to wipe it in honey first, and cover the honey in cinnamon. Then take a toothpick and push it through the center of that. Then, kid you not, chocolate syrup. Put it in the freezer and it’ll last a millennium.
I can't tell if you are fucking with me right now. But that sounds delicious so I'm going to try it anyway.
It might be delicious if we weren't talking about the inedible fibrous stump of a banana peel.
Update: the stem/whatever it is of a banana, even when slathered with multiple delicious things, is in fact still disgusting.
She seems to think that wrapping the stump in foil protects the rest of the fruit. I don't see how it would, but I just roll with it. Her parents do it too. They are all from a completely different culture so I just shrug and smile.
You can very easily test this with 2 bananas next to each other
Just one second while I get my PPE on and then I'm on the case.
AI slop is allowed on .World?
Who keeps bananas longer than a week? I mean in our household if we buy 10 on Saturday they'll be one left by the following Friday... 😋
I eat a whole hand of bananas in a day or two
I do because I mean to make chocolate chip banana bread, they get ripe, I turn away, oh FUCK they're bad lmfao.
I've also read keeping them in the produce bag helps
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