Banana Slip, Double Dip episode from 2009
Posted by Low-Astronomer3394@reddit | mythbusters | View on Reddit | 19 comments
Watching it intermittently right how, they peeled dozens of bananas for the peels to test the slip-on-a-banana-peel myth. This bugs me, but I have to ask: what did they do with all the bananas? It seems so wasteful if there was no use for the bananas themselves.
Ragnarsworld@reddit
I don't remember which video it was, but IIRC Adam explained once they used expired produce as much as they could in food myths. I was also watching that episode and a lot of the bananas were overripe and beyond the point where a person would want to eat them.
opensourced_@reddit
Overripe is what you want for that test. They get mushy and I'd guess even more slippery, but he's talking about waste, but you have no clue how much food stores throw away when it's past.
Ragnarsworld@reddit
I do have a clue.
Dense_Cellist9959@reddit
Same for the fish that they shot at with a gatling gun - already unsafe for consumption.
FootyFanYNWA@reddit
As someone who knows what expired produce is, those bananas were fine.
Only-Ad5049@reddit
My mother always used overripe bananas for making bread. They are perfect for that.
Mesoscale92@reddit
They might have donated the peel less bananas to local charities, which is something they did whenever they used a lot of food for an episode.
FootyFanYNWA@reddit
No charity is gonna take banana innards unless they have their own oven and majority do not.
opensourced_@reddit
I never understood why they didn't test it on a wet floor, which is a plausible situation—you clean a room, drop one the floor, and then someone walks in and slips.
TimothyFerguson1@reddit
You can freeze bananas, so I guess the crew just smoothies and vegan ice creamed out for a while.
TimothyFerguson1@reddit
God, I need some frozen banana ice cream now. Fortunately I have banana chunks in the freezer. I also have biscoff. Time to fire up the blender.
IchiroTheCat@reddit
On one of the socials linked here I think you could ask Kari & Tory
https://mythfitspodcast.com
Xploding_Penguin@reddit
What could one banana cost, Ten dollars?
FootyFanYNWA@reddit
It’s not about cost, it’s about the use of food . Reading comprehension.
RunnyDischarge@reddit
Has anybody on this thread ever even seen a chicken?
oldanddumb1@reddit
Made banana bread
stantonkreig@reddit
A banana costs about ten fucking cents. You're worried about mytbbusters and not, like, top chef or something that wastes a lot of expensive food? We're talking about some bananas from fifteen years ago? We could have saved the world!!
Low-Astronomer3394@reddit (OP)
Thanks for your concern and wise input. I shall stop worrying immediately.
stantonkreig@reddit
You should because the world is full of shit to actually worry about, not bananas from 2009