The most optimal method of eating a banana is by starting

[kirtai@tech.lgbt]

@nina_kali_nina
Yep, because the skin doesn't break on the far side which makes it easy to peel from the middle.

[zvava@bbs.619.hu]

@nina_kali_nina people....eat bananas?

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

@zvava sometimes they do, yes

[sarah@sosial.link]

@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

I peel it from the top and throw away the innards.

[apposada@masto.es]

@nina_kali_nina behold a borderline dissection for optimal preservation and observation of internal structures: cut the stalk and tip skin bits with a knife (see red planes pic1), then do thin cuts on the skin longitudinally at the right edges (blue dashed lines pic1) to remove the peel. The inside of the banana is made of three symmetrical parts (brown outline 2nd pic) that run along a central axis and that can be separated applying some pressure+pulling from the tip and through. It comes out easy if done right.

It's my favourite fruit. Perhaps I might have eaten too many of them.

[bart@floss.social]

@nina_kali_nina My English is not as good as I thought it was. What’s a stalk?

I eat my bananas the human way, not the ape way.

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

@bart a stalk is the part that connects the banana to the plant

[whimsy@chitter.xyz]

@nina_kali_nina open it by breaking it in half like you would snap a small tree branch, and then peel and eat each half

[whimsy@chitter.xyz]

@h5e @nina_kali_nina yes! The correct way!

[oatmealraisin@mas.to]

@nina_kali_nina

Eating the peel. Nutrients++.

[elithebearded@fed.qaz.red]

@nina_kali_nina

I eat bananas in banana bread and smoothies. For banana bread they are usually falling open stem end due to age. For smoothies I might open either end. Rarely I'll have bananas someone else has opened and prepared as banana chips or banana desserts like pudding or cream pie

[overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social]

@nina_kali_nina carefully make an incision along the length of the banana, remove the meat and place the peel somewhere such that it looks like a whole banana sitting on the counter.