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The Proper Way to Peel a Banana

250px-Saimiri_sciureus-1_Luc_Viatour120px-Banana_and_cross_sectionI saw this video today and was struck by the fact that I have been peeling bananas the wrong day for decades. I had to share it for all Turley bloggers to save time on future human v. banana incidents. I have personally tried this technique and had extremely satisfying results in my limited study. Each banana was left intact and unmarred.


This is just one more benefit that you can’t get on other legal sites (I know some of you have been straying). The Turley blog does not just make for better news, it makes you better people. Remember that my potassium-challenged friends every time you peel a banana.

The credit however goes to monkeys who have been peeling bananas this way for centuries before our eyes. Some however are a bit messier than others:

If creationists are looking for proof that man could not have evolved from monkeys, we may have proof in the peeling of a banana. If we are a higher order of evolved life, how come monkeys are starter at peeling bananas?

31 thoughts on “The Proper Way to Peel a Banana”

  1. This is my favorite.

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiQur7Bq4bg&hl=en&fs=1&]

  3. I have to say that everybody in my immediate family has been peeling bananas the way monkeys have for years. In fact, I had never seen anybody peel a banana differently until I was in college. So it seems mind boggling to me that the vast majority of people peel bananas differently from my family and monkeys.

  4. “I heard that they were all brown.”

    Something tells me that’s not “traditional”.

    Do I really need the “Not that there’s anything wrong with that” disclaimer?

  5. Humm, I thought that that was a couples playing activity set. You mean that I am wrong?

    I for one never buy bananas at a store traditionally visited by people of the alternative sex life. I heard that they were all brown.

  6. Thank you Jim and Buddha for bringing the dicussion back down to a level I can appreciate. Also, the monkey in the second video posted by the Prof. seemed to go in sideways, which is how my 3 year-old eats everything, suggesting that atleast my family descended from apes.

  7. Working now!

    Do monkeys really have a better way of doing things?

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DBuk91phkI&hl=en&fs=1&]

  9. The knowledge that I gather from this site is :

    “ex·traor·di·nar·y (k-strôrdn-r, kstr-ôr-)
    adj.
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    And profound in its timimg,for I just walked in the door with some,Bananas.:)

  10. The Turley blog does not just make for better news, it makes you better people. Remember that every time you peel a banana.

    Umm, I don’t know about making me a better person (I am still the same old fart I was before I found the Turley blog), but I will agree that the Turley blog has aided me in fulfilling a life long dream… learning how to peel a banana like a monkey. One question though, are pajamas optional, I don’t think I have ever seen a monkey in pajamas?

  14. Jim,

    ROFL

    Nice.

    When I was kid, they used to have an ape house at the KC Zoo where the chimps had an indoor/outdoor set up. Outside, you had a moat that was a good distance since chimps can leap like demons but hate water. Inside, you had a fence and a sign, “WARNING: Chimps may throw feces!”

    Well me an my dad were watching the chimps as usual but it was so hot we went inside. I was about 8 or 9 at the time. We were minding out monkey business when suddenly and without warning my dad shouts, “Get down!” and shoved me down. I was upset until I looked up and saw the guy behind me had a nice chest full of freshly flung monkey poo. Had my father not shoved me down, it would have been at head level.

    There is no moral to that story, but perhaps the advice to “Shoot low, Sheriff. They may be riding Shetlands.”

    I intend to eat a banana this way as soon as I get home tonight.

  18. We recently began purchasing some miniature bananas from Kroger that gave the instructions for the correct way to open a banana.

    I had no idea, either. But it does work better, with the exception of the little gross part you have to remove at the tip.

  19. I just tried this. -It really works!

    There is a side effect.

    Now I have an incredible urge to throw feces at my neighbors.

  20. The Banana is a already favorite of Creationists because it shows a plant that was created just for us. I think this may have them rethinking their place in the order of things.

    I for one welcome our new Monkey overlords.

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