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In South Korea, some stores carry "one a day" bananas which are packaged in order of ripeness
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this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2023
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We need this in north america
No, we don't. Just buy a damn bunch of bananas and skip the added plastic.
One thing that shocked me about living in Asia was the amount of plastic and individually wrapped fruit...sometimes double or triple-packaged.
You will even occasionally buy a pack of Oreos and inside the package, each Oreo is individually wrapped. I don't know why it's so normal to use so much plastic.
This was in Singapore btw - the country that's supposed to be 'green' by 2030.
When Singapore announced it would be getting rid of one-use plastic bags, there was a huge uproar. My colleagues at the time would ask how they are supposed to carry groceries back home. When I mentioned they can bring a reusable bag, they were like "It's so much trouble to carry bags to the store when they can just provide them!"
Of course, not everyone had this mentality, but the people against this new policy pretty much said the same word for word.
Not to mention, there are ZERO composting programs in Singapore. Maybe you can find one mom-and-pop shop that has a compost box where you can bring your waste, but again - most people don't drive, and bringing your trash on public transport definitely won't fly.
I hope they reach the green goal by 2030, but they have a LOT of work to do in the next 6.5 years...
The plastic is not an essential part of this product.
I didn't mean the plastics I just meant being able to buy bananas of varying ripeness
Where do you shop? Every grocery store I go to has bananas of varying ripeness. Many even seperate them out from green to ripe on the stands.
Idk I go to a few different stores, freshco, save on foods, superstore
The bananas are always in bunches
It's okay to split up the bunches, if I only want a few I'll grab two ripe ones and two green ones.
I normally find there are plenty of green and yellow bananas. Grab a few of each and just eat them in slightly non-optimal ripeness. I don't think you can really gauge a bananas ripeness down to the day anyway.
Yeah, this is true. I feel like those would all ripen at about the same time. You can guess pretty well, but they often seem to ripen together.
Also, they didn't wrap the stem. Those will ripen quickly, now.
I wonder if they might actually be combining them from different deliveries. IE, they grab an average ripeness one from the Monday delivery, an average ripeness one from the Tuesday delivery etc and by the time the last delivery is added the first one is about ready to eat.