has anyone noticed lately that bananas are really hard to peel open?

Question

has anyone noticed lately that bananas are really hard to peel open? For the past 2 months or so, the bananas I buy at the grocery store are really hard to open at the top. Sometimes I have to cut them with scissors and they get all mushy where I tried to snap the top back and forth. Anyone?

I buy green bananas and I don't eat them if they have brown spots, I like them when they're not quite ripe yet. Thanks to everyone who answered!

Answer 1

Do what monkeys do - pinch the other end!!!! It will peal itself!!

Answer 2

I haven't noticed this. What I have noticed, however, is that I can't find green bananas anywhere!! I like to buy them when they're about 3/4 ripe, and let them ripen on the banana stand at home. For some reason (for the last couple months) every single time I go grocery shopping (to all different stores--not just my regular Kroger) they're always completely ripe to the point of getting spots. No green at all. None. Because of this, I have to buy one or two at a time, and go shopping every few days. It's really annoying!

Answer 3

Bananas need a steady temperature of over 60 degrees and In the winter the banana's don't get that, so they ripen differently and that will cause the bananas to be a little more difficult to peel nothing to worry about .

Answer 4

I experience this off and on, and I don't like a mushy-topped banana! So, I try it once, if it doesn't easily peel, I slice it open.

I would love to know what makes one bunch of bananas harder to get into than another bunch!

Answer 5

Bananas that are grown during a colder season naturally create a thicker peel. Which makes them harder to open.

Answer 6

yes I have! I remember being little and just a little tug on the stem, in any direction, would peel it. Now it seems I have to cut the top or at least dig into it with my fingernail. Not sure why.

Answer 7

come to think of it, yeah... it has been hard to open them, and whenever i do the flip thing, my banana is really mushy and gross like u said, i wonder why..... oh, now i remember, they're out of season, that might be a reason, but i am not sure,
hope this helps!

Answer 8

Nope.. Its still the same as before.. Maybe you've been sold the oldest banana in the grocery store?

Answer 9

what a appropriate question. congratulations for putting forward this type of valid element! what makes me say that's that throughout the time of basic terms 2 days interior the previous i grew to grow to be into duscussing this element with my chum and that's actual - has anyone ever slipped on a banana peel? i think of of that throughout the time of accordance to threat an prolonged time interior the previous, somebody did slip and this grew to grow to be into witnessed via making use of an rather inventive guy or lady, who then went and placed this in some form of format be it comic strip or silent action image........ this concept grew to grow to be into then picked up via making use of others and it remains alive at present via certainty, that's for specific possibl that somebody would desire to desire to certainly slip.

Answer 10

If I had to cut a banana with scissors to open it, I would most certainly not eat it. Maybe you should lay off them.

Answer 11

Maybe they aren't ripe, but then again I wait till the skin is just barely specked with brown dots. they are easy to peal then. I cant stand banannas before they get to that point, too slimey!