I was looking for something different for amusement on Youtube yesterday and ran across one of those "you're doing it wrong" videos. Those are frequently silly and sometimes annoying bits of trivia about how you could do things differently, though mostly not actually better. The one that sticks in my mind was one that insisted you should squeeze open your bananas from the blossom end instead of breaking them open from the stalk end like virtually everyone does. In that instance you'd be a tiny bit less wasteful sometimes, because a little of the banana fruit does tend to stick on the spike in the the blossom end, though not always. But the kicker is I don't really like mashed or bruised banana, and for me the chance of damaging the fruit end is a lot worse than the tiny bit of waste. Personal preference doesn't mean you are doing it wrong.( Read more... )
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