Introduction: How to Eat a Banana Like a Monkey
The actual eating isn't too different from humans. The real magic is in how monkeys peel their banana to get at the goodness inside.
Bananas are delicious and work like a charm in pancakes, but odds are you're peeling them the way that you've been taught and never thought about it. So let's do it like the experts: monkeys.
Step 1: Get a Banana
This part is easy and open to some choice. This banana is nice and evenly yellow. I like mine to have more brown on the outside while others insist on there being a little green. Hey, it's your banana, I'm just here to tell you about peeling it.
Step 2: Identify the Top of the Banana
Bananas grow in bunches pointing up with the stems on the bottom. The other side is really the top.
Step 3: Pinch the Top
Get a nice firm pinch on the top of the banana. You might get a bit of smooshed banana goop on your fingers, but with practice you can do it cleanly.
Besides, the banana goop tastes good. Lick it off your fingers!
Step 4: Peel
So you've pinched and gotten a good hold on some part of the peel. Great! Now pull it!
Step 5: Repeat
Peel two or three more times and you'll have a beautiful banana to behold and eat.
Step 6: Eat!
This banana was huge so I shared some of it with Mitch, who was helping me out by taking pictures.
Mmm... banana.
Step 7: The Beauty of It All
With the stem still intact you have a natural handle for the banana. There's no fumbling or trying to get the last bit out, it just happens easily and naturally.
So toss the peel in the compost and get on with your day a little happier that you just had a banana and you feel awesome!!
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238 Comments
1 year ago
AMONG US
2 years ago
How to eat a banana like a monkey?! Ha ha!
5 years ago
this is how real monkeys eat their bananas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaHaTJ_kqQc
12 years ago on Step 7
We humans clearly have a lot to learn from our fellow primates.
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
Yeah although you could quite convincingly argue that they have a lot more to learn from us.
Like language, writing, network routing...
Reply 6 years ago
Electrical engineering, opera singing, egg rolls.
Reply 10 years ago on Step 7
money
7 years ago
And the reason we DON'T eat a banana like a monkey is because STEP 8: Eat the Banana Peel......
8 years ago
I've been eating bananas that way for years and I always get weird looks.
VINDICATED!!
10 years ago on Introduction
This is the only way I've ever known to peel a banana...didn't know there was any other way!
10 years ago on Introduction
guy here in Brazil everyone eats bananas as well without needing any instructable. make this instructable for me was a waste of time because everyone knows eating bananas as well.
Reply 10 years ago on Introduction
Americans haven't been having a problem eating them either. I put this up because most people here eat them by opening from the other end.
Reply 10 years ago on Introduction
oh good. now yes I understand
11 years ago on Introduction
I read in a magazine I think it was Wierd and that ripe bananas glow under a black light and that the peel can be used to filter water. I don't remember if they said what it filtered out. ??????
11 years ago on Introduction
not every people are smart as a monkey to figure out this one.
11 years ago on Introduction
Do you think monkeys teach monkeys how to eat a banana like a human O.o im jk
good istructable 5*
12 years ago on Introduction
SO wonderful!
12 years ago on Introduction
This is actually a great way to eat a banana. I have been eating them this way for years. It also doesn't bruise as easily this way!
12 years ago on Step 3
Some times monkeys open the banana peel with their mouth
15 years ago on Introduction
You can live on bananas alone.. but you get all fat .. like an American.