The perfect number of bananas

[Carson Dyle]

Three.

No matter how ripe they are when you buy them. When the first is perfectly ripe, two days is the maximum that the remainder will last until they're too ripe. At one banana per day, it works out to three bananas. I've tried four, and it just doesn't work.

 

[lxskllr]

I'm gonna go with "one", and only if I want it then. I couldn't count how many bananas go from the store to the basket to the compost pile, and never get eaten :^S

 

[gorcorps]

If I'm eating them every day, I can make 5 work. I don't mind them a little green so it works for me. I prefer them too early compared to too late.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I've found the same. I usually buy 4 at a time but by the last one they don't taste as good. I like them when they are still a little green. That stage lasts maybe a day.

 

[Humpy]

I will only buy a bunch of five bananas. I won't assault a six or seven bunch to make it five either. If there isn't five available, I walk away.

Any other number is unnatural and disturbing to me. If I have to eat an extra banana or two to finish them off in time that's okay, but five is the correct number.

 

[Jeeebus]

my kids are on a banana feeding frenzy lately. 4, 5, 6... doesn't really matter. If I buy bananas today, there won't be bananas tomorrow.

 

[MrSquished]

green is bad. brown spots are good. that is all.

 

[sandorski]

I've found the same. I usually buy 4 at a time but by the last one they don't taste as good. I like them when they are still a little green. That stage lasts maybe a day.

Ya. Too many times I have let the fifth one just rot. I buy 4 now and it works for me.

 

[Crono]

The correct answer is "unlimited". Which technically isn't a number, but whatever.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I put the bad ones in the freezer with anticipation of making a banana bread but 2 door shelves later that never happens and I end up throwing them out. I really do need to make a banana bread with the ones that are in there now.

 

[sandorski]

I put the bad ones in the freezer with anticipation of making a banana bread but 2 door shelves later that never happens and I end up throwing them out. I really do need to make a banana bread with the ones that are in there now.

Did that once too. Couple years later I pried their blackened shriveled carcasses out of the back of the freezer.

 

[dullard]

Did that once too. Couple years later I pried their blackened shriveled carcasses out of the back of the freezer.

Cut and slice them first. Putting in black shriveled bananas just doesn't work. They are far too difficult to peel and slice once frozen. But if you do that small effort first (which is really easy when they are unfrozen), you can essentially use them decades later as long as they don't get freezer burned. Open frozen banana package, put in bread/smoothie, done.

 

[kt]

My 2yr old and I can go through a bunch of bananas in a day.

 

[Scarpozzi]

I notice you never stated what you were using them for. One can only assume....

 

[madoka]

Have you guys considered *gasp* eating more than one banana a day?

 

[SKORPI0]

I usually buy 5. Most of the times, eat with ice cream.

No. 6 of ripeness for me.

 

[madoka]

No. 6 of ripeness for me.

Hmmm. . . if that's the scale, I'm usually still eating them around 10-12.

 

[mikeymikec]

Hmmm. . . if that's the scale, I'm usually still eating them around 10-12.

Similar to my mum. I'm pretty sure that the life now occupying the surface of the bananas she sometimes eats is in the process of voting in its first government.

 

[Nashemon]

I usually buy 5. Most of the times, eat with ice cream.

No. 6 of ripeness for me.

My fiance will only eat #2 or #3. #1 might be too premature even for her. I really don't care personally. I will eat them regardless or how dark they are. If they turn completely black and turn to mush, I put them in a smoothie.

Because of this, we buy the biggest, greenest bunch they have at the grocery store. That way, she can eat them right away, and I finish them off. Bananas don't get thrown away in my house.

 

[Banana]

I usually buy 5. Most of the times, eat with ice cream.

Your slices are uneven. C+ for effort.

As for the OP - I suggest buying bananas in a spectrum of ripeness. Visit several stores if necessary.

 

[dullard]

As for the OP - I suggest buying bananas in a spectrum of ripeness. Visit several stores if necessary.

Listen to Banana on banana topics.

If you like a certain ripeness of banana, buy three bananas of that ripeness and three bananas that are three days behind that ripeness. Suddenly, you have 6 days in a row of perfect bananas.

 

[JEDI]

Three.

No matter how ripe they are when you buy them. When the first is perfectly ripe, two days is the maximum that the remainder will last until they're too ripe. At one banana per day, it works out to three bananas. I've tried four, and it just doesn't work.

you ignorant fool!
4 is the right answer.

the 1st one a little green.
then the other 3 as u said.

Lord, please forgive this uneducated peasant

 

[Crono]

you ignorant fool!
4 is the right answer.

the 1st one a little green.
then the other 3 as u said.

@Banana, please forgive him

Fixed

Also acceptable to refer to him as His Royal Peel-ness (often contracted to P'ness).

 

[JEDI]

Listen to Banana on banana topics.

holy wtf lurker?!
there's a member named Banana?

 

[zinfamous]

I buy them around 5 or 6 at a time, as green as possible.