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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

There's always money in the banana stand

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The pricey ones here cost €1 per kg

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Same, same.

Ah, now I have coffee.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks 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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] bradv 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As though there is anything natural about the modern banana

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you implying they are supernatural?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

A banana for scale would be helpful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Banana stand people: hang loose man!

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Banana cradle capabilities?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

A banana hammock, if you will

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks 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?!?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

After they unionized? No way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oompa loompa doompa de dabor

Only support businesses with unionized labor

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

You make a trade with someone from the actors guild.

Banana for scale.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Sometimes a rubber band, sometimes a twist tie

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Cut it in half and tie the two ends together

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Skewer it with the hook.

[–] shutz 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] corsicanguppy 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Just lay it on the base of the stand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'd invest into an economy of scale

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Eat the last two together

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Shove it up my ass. For safe keeping.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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