Which end do you open a banana from?
Polls
15th June 2022
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.
Itโs 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 werenโt sure or thought bananas were gross! How do you eat yours?
22 Comments
lottielou · 2 weeks ago
First comment! Stalk.
squeezjoos · 1 week ago
Comment 2
From the stalk but I might change now. ๐๐ต๐
luckywolf · 1 week ago
I open it from the stalk as well. To me, it seems satisfying. No idea why though.
lig · 1 week ago
I always open a banana by the black bit, but the rest of my family opens theirs by the stalk.
foxesrock1 · 1 week ago
I actually do both ways ... it just depends what kind of mood I'm in.
mistywater · 1 week 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 · 1 week ago
I love to eat bananas, so recently Iโve started eating them from the other end.
marthajja · 1 week ago
Stalk as its so hard the other way
sunnysmilz · 1 week ago
The black end is just so much easier. Itโs the obvious choice
mangogirl1 · 1 week ago
Iโve always opened them from the stalk ๐
yiyuans · 1 week ago
Me too!
max1234 · 1 week ago
The black end, because when you open from the stalk, sometimes you press too hard, and it turns into banana mash. Deeelicious
vladmir · 1 week ago
from the stalk !!!
second comment
stingray1 · 1 week ago
From the stalk!
flamingo27 · 1 week 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 · 1 week ago
It is harder from the black end, so I would stay with the stalk.
mistywater · 1 week 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 · 1 week ago
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t1gg3r16 · 1 week ago
Stalk it's easier you have something to grip onto
anonymous8 · 1 week ago
I open my bananas from the end with the stalk because it is easier to get the banana out of the peel.
mrbabyyoda · 6 days ago
From the stalk definitely!!! But as it is so interesting that itโs apparently easier to open it from the bottom I will try it!!
tiger.star · 6 days ago
From the stalk but since I read this in the newspaper I'm going to start opening them from the black end.