Petal peels her bananas from the end without the stem.
I mentioned as much at the lunch table last week and triggered a firestorm of debate that has put several research careers on hold and seriously jeopardized the marriage of at least one colleague who, in his single-minded pursuit of truth, has refused for over a week to talk about anything other than the pros and cons of alternative peeling methods. As of this writing, he and his wife have reached an uneasy truce that prohibits him from ever again mentioning the word “banana” in the marital household.
I assume you mean “How to start peeling from the other end”,
cause once you have one flap going, the rest is the same. I was
also trying to figure out how to start as well, without mushing
up the end of the fruit.
There’s a ripeness factor, though, too. If said banana is just unripe enough, the stem will be too tough and all the persuasive technique in the world will come to naught. In such cases you do need a knife to make a little cut and get things started. Or at least I do. At times with no knife on hand, I’ve resorted to my teeth to cut some of the the tough connective fibers. If you’ve ever tasted a banana skin, you’ll know how desperate a measure that is.
OK, I just tried it. The banana in question had a large hard bit at the
non-stem end where the peel joined up. (I can’t remember if this is
standard, apparantly I don’t usually pay much attention to that end
of a banana.) I stuck my fingernail under that part, and it allowed
me to start the peeling as if it were the stem. I don’t see the advantage,
though. I still had a couple strings left on the fruit that I had to remove.
The advantage would be that if you start from the blossom end (is that the correct term in the case of bananas?), you have the intact stem as a handle. I think.
But here’s something: I just Googled “banana-skin,images”, found some cartoons, and as I suspected, they ALL were peeled from the blossom end. What does this mean???
That would take too much care on my part, the sporks I know being plastic and the tines liable to breakage from my apish efforts. I guess I’ll just have to be a sad case and keep using a knife. Or my teeth. How sad is that?
T-Rex is sort of a silly guy, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he needs to make a wee-wee. You can read about T-Rex and his sexy exciting adventures here.
