Just look at this awesome banana bunker.

Just look at it.

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JoshP

*insert choking on banana comment here*

@16 omgomglolomg pronounced a resplendent Churhillian guffaw, if you please.

I wonder if they come in a size for cut bananas… I notice that these seem to be, well more for the less circumspect varities…hmmm.
jaytkay

Has nobody brought back the Atheist’s Nightmare yet?

Ha ha! “Is that a banana in your hand, or are you just glad to see me?”
Anonymous

A lot cheaper to buy them from the source:

http://bananabunker.com

But, if you want to support MOMA, perhaps the higher price is worth it.
Gal_n_AL

The ad on their site reads, “Pamper your banana…” my inner-12 year old can’t stop snickering….!
HatOfEdshu

If God designed the banana, then the Banana Bunker must have been designed by … Super God!
Anonymous

all the sexual innuendo i was gonna post has been covered tenfold already, so I’ll just leave this here:
http://bitsandpieces.us/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/imagesbanana_20phone.jpg

you’re welcome.
jere7my

So, after I slice half a banana on my cereal, how should I store the remaining half until the next morning? I put it in a baggie to protect it from fruit flies, but the exposed end always turns brown and slimy within 24 hours. If someone sold a dildo to solve that problem, I’d buy it.
- the r kelly
  
  Jere7my You’re just going to have to man up and eat the other half.
Jewels Vern

Uh, that’s not what it looks like!
DeWynken

It’s..it’s..uh…a..ROCKET SHIP!

*squeals of joy from the children*
notthemessiah

jere7my – something like this perhaps?

http://www.organize.com/banana-saver-clip.html
- jere7my
  
  notthemessiah, I now suspect you are the messiah! (Further evidence: “Only the true messiah would deny his divinity!” â€”Python) What a brilliant little gizmo.
Anonymous

Check out this sweet banana vending machine:
http://asiajin.com/blog/2010/07/03/japans-first-banana-vending-machine-debuts-in-shibuya/
jeffallen

I looked at it. Now I just want a banana.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PigyeygrEh4
jonobo

I own this tingy – and – it’s useless.

Bananas are packed quite good by nature.

Not all Bananas fit in the Banana-Bunker.

It still wastes space in your bag even if the banana is long gone.

Discarded.

Anybody wanna have it? Pick it up for free in Berlin :D
milovoo

Is this legal in Alabama?
robcat2075

Does anything say “Age of Excess” like a $12 case to protect a 20Â¢ banana?

Well, ok, there was the Iraq war. But besides that?
- djn
  
  @robcat2075:
  Well, it should be good for far more than one 20Â¢ banana. If it’s reasonably sturdy and you bring a banana to work most working days of the year, you’d end up spending more on bananas than on banana conveyance devices. ;)
Anonymous

The “cleverly designed Banana Bunker”

I forgot “cleverly” was a way of describing things to catch out the filthy minded (me!) among us.
elk

At first glance I was 100% sure this was a dual-purpose dildo fruit saver. Really.

And budda bing! So it is!

Can I see the kitchen show demo now? (with a gal, preferably, thank you)
grphiw

And yet I get get over the whole Freudian vibe that emanates from this thing…
scaught

oh my.
- Bilsko
  
  oh dear.
johnnyaction

Sometimes a banana holder is just a banana holder..

Now if it was a banana hammock…
warreno

Pfft. Lousy design. They forgot the G-spot stimulator.
Anonymous

One size fits all.
Xopher

Other uses do suggest themselves, don’t they?
InsertFingerHere

I would pack this in my kid’s lunch and see what happens.
Architexas

Cucumber-shmoocumber. In the future, every woman will have a banana bunker in her home (wink-wink).
erindipity

XD
Gloria

I’m looking. Do I win something?
Generic_Humanoid_Carbon_Unit

It’s all shades of “ouch!!!”
Keneke

What would be really cool is if it were painted with white elephants.
mechko

I got one. Now…

What is it used for?

oh…

wait…

ouch…
Antinous / Moderator

Wait til you see the gerbil holder.
- AirPillo
  
  I saw the gerbil holder as George Putnam in “Amelia”, though I think he’d resent being called that!
- querent
  
  is the whole gerbil thing for real, Antinous?
  - arkizzle / Moderator
    
    Querent,
    
    Is Antinous the gerbil rep for your area?
Mobius

I own an on-line sex toy business in New Zealand. It looks like I should stock this, and maybe feature it on the front page…
Anonymous

@#33
What would happen is that your kid wouldn’t come out of the bathroom for a long time.
mauser319

As one who’s actually purchased this for a loved one a couple years ago, I can speak both to its merit as a noble protector of precious snacks and to its unavoidable phallic presence. Well worth the gag-factor if there are any banana lovers in your life.
RedShirt77

Its hard to look away.
ihaveseenenough

Has nobody brought back the Atheist’s Nightmare yet? It’s always classic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z-OLG0KyR4
the r kelly

I could actually use this. It would be very convenient to throw a banan in my backpack and not end up with smushed banan all over everything.
Anonymous

Good news on the alternative uses front, it’s dishwasher safe!
Mark Crummett

It’s a mulit-tasker. Alton Brown would approve.
Anonymous

anybody ever seen the toothbrush holder the broward sheriff’s office sells to women and men detainees? it looks similar.
jordawesome

Ribbed for Ray Comfort’s displeasure.
WaylonWillie

i don’t get it. where do the batteries go?