Which end do you open a banana from?

Polls

15th June 2022

YOU may have heard the idea that humans have been opening bananas the wrong way round for ages.

Every now and then, the news that monkeys open their bananas with the stalk facing down does the rounds.

It’s much easier to pinch open the black end to get to the yummy goodness. But a YouGov poll of 3,189 adults suggests old habits die hard. It found that 76% of people still open it from the stalk end, while only 11% copied the monkeys for the easy way in.

The rest weren’t sure or thought bananas were gross! How do you eat yours?

Which end do you open a banana from?

38 Comments

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lottielou · 3 years ago

First comment! Stalk.

squeezjoos · 3 years ago

Comment 2
From the stalk but I might change now. 🍌🐵🐒

luckywolf · 3 years ago

I open it from the stalk as well. To me, it seems satisfying. No idea why though.

lig · 3 years ago

I always open a banana by the black bit, but the rest of my family opens theirs by the stalk.

foxesrock1 · 3 years ago

I actually do both ways ... it just depends what kind of mood I'm in.

mistywater · 3 years ago

If I was to open a banana, I would open it from the stalk end, I thought that was the easier way. I don't even really like bananas but no I will have to eat one and try opening it from the black end.

reuike · 3 years ago

I love to eat bananas, so recently I’ve started eating them from the other end.

marthajja · 3 years ago

Stalk as its so hard the other way

sunnysmilz · 3 years ago

The black end is just so much easier. It’s the obvious choice

mangogirl1 · 3 years ago

I’ve always opened them from the stalk 🍌

yiyuans · 3 years ago

Me too!

max1234 · 3 years ago

The black end, because when you open from the stalk, sometimes you press too hard, and it turns into banana mash. Deeelicious

vladmir · 3 years ago

from the stalk !!!
second comment

stingray1 · 3 years ago

From the stalk!

flamingo27 · 3 years ago

I open it from the stalk as it is easier and I normally don't eat the black end so there would be no point!

ivansp2011 · 3 years ago

It is harder from the black end, so I would stay with the stalk.

mistywater · 3 years ago

It's not the obvious choice to open it from the black end, clearly most people go with the stalk end, look at the poll.

mistywater · 3 years ago

🍌 🍌

t1gg3r16 · 3 years ago

Stalk it's easier you have something to grip onto

anonymous8 · 3 years ago

I open my bananas from the end with the stalk because it is easier to get the banana out of the peel.

mrbabyyoda · 3 years ago

From the stalk definitely!!! But as it is so interesting that it’s apparently easier to open it from the bottom I will try it!!

tiger.star · 3 years ago

From the stalk but since I read this in the newspaper I'm going to start opening them from the black end.

candyapple · 3 years ago

I don't open bananas at all. I don't like them.😢

donald0 · 3 years ago

I’m not sure how you’d open a banana from the black end🤔. I open mine from the stalk👍🏼

lkb10 · 2 years ago

I open them from the stalk as I find it difficult to open them from the other end!

mistywater · 2 years ago

Stalk end, it's easier for me.

robro · 2 years ago

I use the side that monkeys use as it is easier.

superpug27 · 2 years ago

Stalk 100%. Stalk 4ever!

popstar123 · 2 years ago

Eating a banana from the stalk is far easier to me

radsha · 2 years ago

STALK

catlover15 · 2 years ago

It’s easier to hold onto the stalk and peel the banana because then the end won’t go mushy.

snowbear · 2 years ago

Definitely the stalk ! You peel it back and it opens but the other way? No way!

piggypip · 2 years ago

I wouldn't want to open a banana anyway. They are too disgusting.

swiftiecat · 2 years ago

I open it from the stalk , because that is how I have been taught to do it , but I also don't know how to open it from the other end.

uniquestar · 2 years ago

I DON'T LIKE BANANAS - so neither

puncho1567 · 2 years ago

Well actually after I read this article I started peeling it from the black end and it's actually much easier than from the stalk

m02b237 · 2 years ago

I mean, there is not much matter to this but I USUALLY open it from the black end. I most of the time mash the whole banana accidentally...

kawh3 · 2 years ago

I peel the stalk 🍌but I am going to try the black bit 🍌😎