You can just pinch the end of a banana to start peeling it. The effort required is far less than trying to overcome the ripping force of the stem.
I don’t get the banana trick. What do I do after pinching? I just end up ripping through the skin of one while trying it out.
I love how it skillfully peels the banana and then eats the peel anyway. Amazing.
Bananas are the way they are through millenia of selective breeding, so there’s no reason to think that monkeys know anything we don’t. If pinching the bottom is easier than bending the stem, your banana isn’t ripe yet and doesn’t want to be eaten until later.
A) that seems backwards: an under ripe banana will be stiff inside so you can snap the peel around the stem when you bend it, while a riper, softer banana will mush inside when you bend the stem. And,
B) like I give a fuck what a banana wants
Have you ever tried opening a banana from the bottom like described in the comment?
Why even peel at all? https://youtu.be/L1QVp55ehvs?si=W1vfyguSovNK7SmG
Just reposting without the tracker: https://youtu.be/L1QVp55ehvs
That’s way too slow.
Take one end in each hand, hold it “like a frown” in front of you.
Bend it in half downward and bite the peak of the bend with one of your canines.
when it snaps open, shove one half of the banana into your mouth, (chew if needed, then) swallow.
Shovel the other half into your mount, (chew if needed, then) swallow.
I just use my fingernail to make a small cut at the stem end and then it’s super easy to peel that back