Re: This is Bananas!

Johan continued the discussion on how to peel a banana.

I always peeled from the stalk end until I visited Thrigby Hall, a zoo in Norfolk. A keeper gave a talk as she fed the gibbons, and said that it's only humans who start at the stalk. We watched the gibbons start at the other end, and later I tried it. I've never gone back to the stalk end.

At the stalk end, it's natural to bend the stalk back to break the skin. But Johan already found that breaking the skin yourself works better. At the other end, with nothing for leverage, I found it natural to dig my thumbnail in very slightly. It always opens very cleanly for me.

Keeper feeding gibbons

She's giving them grapes in the photo, but there were bananas too.

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