NANA Saver

• jasonfifi
  May 16th, 2008 at 9:26 am

  a whole banana is between 80 and 115 calories. a pound of bananas runs about $1. that’s 8 bananas, usually. so for a $3 banana-saver to pay for itself, the consumer would have to eat 24 bananas in 2 sittings.

  this is a silly product, man, i’m with you. i watch my calorie intake, and i’ve never thought “i can’t eat this whole banana.”

• Pol x
  May 16th, 2008 at 9:32 am

  Just eat the bloody thing

• oldie
  May 16th, 2008 at 10:26 am

  We often have 1/2 bananas left over at our house. It’s not my wife or I, it’s because of my 2 year old son.

  Sometimes he’s too full after the 1/2 banana (usually used to top him off after the rest of the meal) and sometimes he just gets bored of it.

  We just use a ziplock though, or leave it exposed, then cut off the 1/4 inch of dry area before using the rest.

• Puzzled Monkey
  May 16th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

  Old cafeteria worker trick: to keep most sliced fruits fresher longer, rub the exposed portion with lemon or lime juice to slow down oxidation. Lemon juice works great but lime tastes better :-).

• cuimhne
  May 16th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

  This reminds me of the guy on Dragon’s Den who had a cap for preserving half a cucumber…I can’t remember what it was called but one of the Dragons said it looked like a condom for a cucumber!

• andrewdoane
  May 16th, 2008 at 1:06 pm

  Seriously, eat it all. Or throw it away. It’s garbage once you stop eating it.

• Barbwire
  May 16th, 2008 at 10:21 pm

  My housemate and I nearly came to blows over this. It wasn’t until the fruit flies spread to his bedroom that he believed me. They lay eggs through the banana skin. Leaving a cut one open lets lots of them come to life and take over your house.

• boab
  May 17th, 2008 at 11:37 am

  Either eat the whole bloody banana, use a banana flavoured condom to place the banana inside and then tie it(possibly a really disgusting idea, especially if its a used condom) or buy smaller bananas.

  I wonder what the hell the inventor was thinking.

  “I often can’t eat a whole banana and often I just stuff it all in my mouth and just hope to God I can eat it. How about a little stupid clip to keep it fresh ?”

  I usually eat 2 bananas at once or make banana sandwiches. I eat about 4 sandwiches at once and I’m not fat! I used to be chubby though, but my mum called it puppy fat.:P

• Tempscire
  May 17th, 2008 at 11:52 am

  Wow. Lots of half-banana-hate… I often have half a banana left-over, usually because I don’t like eating bananas by themselves but one is too big for a bowl of cereal or the sandwich I’m making. Wouldn’t buy this, though, since it’s easy enough to cut off the bad part later.

  And, uh, Barbwire, …you’re fine eating fly eggs in your banana so long as it’s still ripe and they haven’t hatched? I’ve never seen fly eggs under banana skin and they would be visible. Now, fruit flies like to lay eggs on decomposing fruit; perhaps that’s where your were coming from?

• Katey
  May 17th, 2008 at 10:33 pm

  This is just what I need for the leftover ‘nana half from my peanut butter and banana sandwiches!

  … Though usually just putting the other half in a snack size baggie and then slicing off and discarding the 1/8 or less of browned end the next day works just fine, too.

• ted
  May 18th, 2008 at 9:42 am

  You can buy smaller bananas.
  Just eat the whole damn banana or share.

• Thomas
  May 18th, 2008 at 10:12 am

  I eat my bananas, I don’t know about you.

• Alecks
  May 20th, 2008 at 11:23 pm

  It would be awesome to pair that along with the banana guard (http://www.bananaguard.com/) as a gift… Although honestly, I don’t remember ever wanting to eat only half a banana.

• Me
  May 21st, 2008 at 2:39 pm

  Definitely unecessary, leave it and cut off the end when you’re ready, or just fold a little square of paper towel over the cut end. Dumbest invention since that jar that cooks pasta. Sucker born every minute, people starving in Africa, don’t waste the money.

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