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Does your banana need protection?


Kent Wang

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Ribbed for your pleasure! :biggrin::blink:

I think yellow is taken care of with the clear one--the yellow of banana shows through making it look, well, yellow.

I prefer the banana guard, and they do seem to be catching on in Japan. The last time I was at Tokyu Hands, they were running low on them. Interestingly, I've never seen any of my students or anyone else bring a banana to school (other than me, that is), which makes me wonder who's buying them...

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I prefer the banana guard, and they do seem to be catching on in Japan.  The last time I was at Tokyu Hands, they were running low on them.  Interestingly, I've never seen any of my students or anyone else bring a banana to school (other than me, that is), which makes me wonder who's buying them...

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Even in this fast paced economy, these products create the possibility of eating fresh fruit whenever the consumer wishes.

Uh... huh.

*snicker*

Kim, I'm right there with you. I'm not sure I ever made it past age 7, though. Banana Bunker indeed.

Jennie

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There was a similar product mentioned on a thread here perhaps two years ago.

As I recall, it was not offerend in colors - just translucent plastic.

"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!" Terry Pratchett

 

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Mr. Kim says that he would like to buy one, but they aren't big enough for his bananas  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh: !

You know this thread is going to be deleted, right?

But it's very relevant!

When the banana guard first came out in Japan, one of the news shows did a test using 20 different bananas of various shapes and sizes. The only ones that didn't fit, were the deformed bananas (their odd shapes wouldn't fit into the guard) and what I think was really a plantain (it was too big).

So...unless Mr. Kim is carrying around a deformed banana, or a plantain, I'm quite certain the banana guard would be fine for his bananas. :biggrin:

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