Incredibly wasteful
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Nice
We need this in north america
No, we don’t. Just buy a damn bunch of bananas and skip the added plastic.
The plastic is not an essential part of this product.
One thing that shocked me about living in Asia was the amount of plastic and individually wrapped fruit…sometimes double or triple-packaged.
You will even occasionally buy a pack of Oreos and inside the package, each Oreo is individually wrapped. I don’t know why it’s so normal to use so much plastic.This was in Singapore btw - the country that’s supposed to be ‘green’ by 2030.
When Singapore announced it would be getting rid of one-use plastic bags, there was a huge uproar. My colleagues at the time would ask how they are supposed to carry groceries back home. When I mentioned they can bring a reusable bag, they were like “It’s so much trouble to carry bags to the store when they can just provide them!”
Of course, not everyone had this mentality, but the people against this new policy pretty much said the same word for word.
Not to mention, there are ZERO composting programs in Singapore. Maybe you can find one mom-and-pop shop that has a compost box where you can bring your waste, but again - most people don’t drive, and bringing your trash on public transport definitely won’t fly.
I hope they reach the green goal by 2030, but they have a LOT of work to do in the next 6.5 years…
I didn’t mean the plastics I just meant being able to buy bananas of varying ripeness
Where do you shop? Every grocery store I go to has bananas of varying ripeness. Many even seperate them out from green to ripe on the stands.
Idk I go to a few different stores, freshco, save on foods, superstore
The bananas are always in bunches
Yes but usually bananas are charged by weight so you can even split and take half a good bunch and half a green bunch…
It’s okay to split up the bunches, if I only want a few I’ll grab two ripe ones and two green ones.
That’s fair, I’ve never thought about it like that before
I normally find there are plenty of green and yellow bananas. Grab a few of each and just eat them in slightly non-optimal ripeness. I don’t think you can really gauge a bananas ripeness down to the day anyway.
Yeah, this is true. I feel like those would all ripen at about the same time. You can guess pretty well, but they often seem to ripen together.
Also, they didn’t wrap the stem. Those will ripen quickly, now.
Fantastic idea, but did they need to use plastic packaging?
of course, because you’re not allowed to have perfect.
Plus the waste of the all the bananas that don’t look perfectly the same
They even wrap single apples in plastic in Korea. The environmental thinking is slowly adapting though.
This package makes me angry. Bananas are already perfectly packed by nature, how fucked up does one have to be in the head to think it would be a good idea to put them in a **one time use ** plastic package?!
Ban single use plastics already.
Some places individually wrap their carrots too it’s the dumbest shit
That’s literally the first thing I thought of while looking at that picture. There’s no good reason for this. Bananas serve many purposes from green to yellow to black. Moreover, that “one per day” gimmick won’t even give you the same ripeness.
I mean, that is mildly interesting, but it’s so fucking silly. So unnecessary…
[mildly infuriating]
putting bannas in a plastic shell 🗽🇺🇸👍👍😎
Except… it’s South Korea 🤷🇰🇷👍👍🤗
Potato potato. South Korea is the most americanized country in Asia by far.
Seriously… Just pick the exact ripeness of each one in any store where I live. Mix and match, it’s totally, 100% socially acceptable to do this.
You can’t buy individual bananas in many places in my country.
I’m not buying three bunches of bananas, each at different stages of ripeness. That’s a ridiculous amount of bananas.
You can’t? Are fruits/produce not sold by weight over there?
Yeah you might weigh the bunch of bananas at the checkout, but you won’t find many individual bananas at most supermarkets.
You might see individual pieces of fruit sold with lunch meal deals (sandwiches, drink fruit etc) but not in the regular grocery section.
Over here you can just rip the bananas you want from the bunch. They don’t care about bunches, just the weight of the fruit.
So this is interesting… if you see a bunch of bananas, you’re not allowed to break one off? Here in the United States, it’s totally acceptable to do this. You can straight up go around and pull one banans off of 7 different bunches, and nobody will even look at you funny.
Yeah this would cause mayhem here lol
I can’t tell which banana is for scale. Plaese halp
Just buy bananas that are of the ripeness you like and put them in the fridge. They’ll easily last a week or two and tastes better too (my opinion). Don’t worry if the shell turns brown, the insides are still good. Place them in some kind of container (plastic bag will do) when you store them in fridge and they’ll probably last a month if not more (I wouldn’t know, I always eat them sooner).
When storing in fridge, the low temperature slows down ripening but oxygen causes the shell to turn brown. When the shell is brown enough it will start to ruin the insides. The plastic bag, or other airtight or near airtight container, reduces the amount of oxygen that gets to the bananas. When there’s less oxygen to turn the shell brown the bananas will last who knows how long. In room temperature the shell and the insides will ripen about at the same rate, and usually pretty fast.
This is what I do. People have gotten so used to commercially produced unripe fruit that they get turned off by actually ripe fruit. I had a friend think my bananas were going off because they smelled what a ripe banana is supposed to for the first time in their life. This person was 34 years old.
People stop buying shit wrapped in plastic. Once you stop , businesses will stop.
In North Korea, one store carry “one a year” bananas which is packed in order of “loyalty to the leader points”
This is a great idea
I desperately need them to swap positions of the two bananas on the left.
I need them to flip the whole thing. Green bananas are best bananas, and you use the ones that have overripened in your chartreuse-fueled negligence to hastily make banana bread in an effort to excuse yourself. Repeat forever.
Then you would LOVE the grocery store were I live. You can choose between green, green and green bananas, I haven’t seen them sell a even slightly yellow one for years, even the greenest one here is to yellow.
Have you ever had the chance to try plantains? They’re a bit like bananas but for cooking and while they can be used yellow, generally they are used green.
I think I’ve had them once or twice and found them ok? But that was eating them like a banana. If they’re more intended for cooking, that may require another attempt…
Yeah they’re only ever really used cooked. (I gather that they aren’t nearly as nice to eat raw and might make your stomach a bit upset if eaten raw but possibly are not actively bad for you like eating a raw potato is.) Cooked they’re pretty nice. Kinda like if a banana thought it was a potato.
Capitalism breeds innovation
And plastic waste.
