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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 70 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Just buy more bananas. How much could a banana cost? $10?

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

Well, in the US they are almost there with eggs...

[–] MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

There's always money in the banana stand

[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The pricey ones here cost €1 per kg

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 2 months ago

I worked at a Walmart for a bit and one day they had me change the price tags on the bananas and I immediately had to ask and make sure the tags were correct because they went from like $0.70 per pound, to $1.68 per banana.

Until they went back to a per pound price, banana sales basically stopped at the store.

[–] badbrainstorm@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You can cut the second to last banana a little lower, and leave the top of the stim attached to keep it hanging

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Until I read your answer, I was picturing a kiosk selling frozen bananas with a countertop (a diner would be a countertop restaurant, in this naming convention). My only excuse is that I just woke up

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

Same, same.

Ah, now I have coffee.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait you cut them all? You don't just tear the bananas apart from each other?

Cutting, a stand, all feels like an overcomplication of a simple fruit

[–] badbrainstorm@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Uhh, see the banana master JWBananas diagram below. Exactly what I'm talking about

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There's always money in the banana stand to get more bananas.

[–] bradv@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's one banana, how much could it cost, $10?

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

Just use those $10 and go see a star war.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 months ago

I read this as being addressed to owners of businesses that sell bananas off a countertop and had an existential crisis wondering how the fuck I never realized that was a thing

Let alone why it'd be an issue for them to have only a single banana left in stock

[–] JWBananas@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What's this "nature's way" crap, when the bananas are hanging upside down?

Tap for bananasPicture of banana tree showing bananas grow with stema down

[–] JWBananas@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As though there is anything natural about the modern banana

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you implying they are supernatural?

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where on the scale is that? Is it higher or lower than supernatural?

A banana for scale would be helpful.

[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

It is higher than the banana, relative to the direction they're oriented. Determining which orientation is correct is left as an exercise to the reader.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Banana stand people: hang loose man!

Actual bananas: <flips like 50 birds to the camera>

[–] IAmLamp@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

This is the way. Cut the second to last banana below the stem. Works perfectly.

[–] november@lemmy.vg 17 points 2 months ago
[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think we're all missing the most important question here: where do you get someone small enough to work the countertop banana stand?!?

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

You make a trade with someone from the actors guild.

Banana for scale.

[–] chtk@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

After they unionized? No way.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Oompa loompa doompa de dabor

Only support businesses with unionized labor

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The arm of our stand is wide so I can rest one banana on top.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Banana cradle capabilities?

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

A banana hammock, if you will

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Mine it for potassium-40. Radioactive products sell for more than one banana, which as others have noted cost $10 but if you can purify the radioactive elements, you can probably get $11 or even $12.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Plus, the YouTube revenue. Imagine me and Nile Red turning a banana into something where we get a visit from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. They’d pay upwards of $14.50.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago

Sometimes a rubber band, sometimes a twist tie

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

Just lay out on the counter and eat it the next day. Sorry, boring as answer

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Cut it in half and tie the two ends together

[–] shutz@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I heard countertop banana stand owners tend to also own banana hammocks.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

I'm going to buy a banana stand, and knit a hammock to hang from it.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

You rip the second-last one off to leave the stem, which now becomes a hook.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Skewer it with the hook.

[–] rivan@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago
[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Impale it as an example to other bananas that might step out of line.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago
[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Just lay it on the base of the stand.

[–] match@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago

Eat the last two together

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

There's always money in the banana stand. Use the last banana for a free smoothie for your employee, or throw the rotton thing out and order more for tomorrow.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

I'd invest into an economy of scale

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I use better technology: wire fruit basket. It achieves the same goal of exposing your banana to air circulation, but the last one can lay down