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[–] 49 points 9 months ago (24 children)

Eating beach bananas sounds like a great way to get some kind of weird illness. It's not like there's a nearby banana tree that they could have come from. But maybe I'm just too accustomed to grocery stores

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    I would just assume that through osmosis those bananas ate salty as fuck, plus I have seen the size of the fucking spiders on some of those bananas being shipped here, no fuck you

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    The tarantulas have usually abandoned the bananas by the time we eat the bananas.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Sometimes as I'm tearing a banana from the bundle I picture the tarantulas that might've been crawling all over it, and I wonder if I'm touching the same spot a hairy tarantula has been. I don't like having those thoughts. So I try not to have those thoughts.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago*

    They addressed that, actually.

    True to the spirit of journalistic inquiry, your correspondent can attest that seawater has not degraded the taste of the bananas, with the only threats to health posed by skin slippage and by eating too many of them.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Wonder what all that banana skin soaked up.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Would you eat a banana out of the toilet, as long as you peeled it first?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    Yes, without hesitation, although I'd want to rinse it first to avoid cross-contamination.

    Banana picking and shipping as it usually happens isn't exactly sterile, either. Or the grocery store where everyone is sorting through them. This is also why you should wash anything you don't peel.

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