Just look at this awesome anti-banana-ripening bag.

Just look at it.

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candycritic

Hey Cory, it looks like your crusade to keep the sales of bananas is a success, congratulations!

http://www.foodnavigator.com/Financial-Industry/Bananas-outsmart-economic-crisis/?c=otwSL2VXXbDlMrYcLLaC9g%3D%3D&utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter%2BDaily
Fred H

In my local supermarket the other day, I spotted a stand w/ these kind of banana devices. Has Boing Boing infected what I focus on, or has the site infect the produce worker?
By the way GO, GO, GO, GO, GO BANANAS!!!
frogworth

While this isn’t the best, I’m enjoying just looking at the banana posts, and somehow enjoying the way they seem to hit a real nerve with some people. Banana zen peeps – like normal zen, but with added potassium!
efergus3

Keeps up to two weeks in the fridge sounds great to me.
garunya

Was it effective? Was it F…
caffeine addict

Ha! Either someone else loves my favourite KitchenPorn emporium, or a link I posted in a previous banana thread just made it to the front page.

Time for an (over-ripe) ‘nana I feel…
Anonymous

I’ve got your banana bag right here. Oh snap!
Anonymous

Damn you! I’ve been slowly collecting all these banana items as a banana gift set for some lucky friend. But now its going to seem like I cribbed off boing boing. The banana sheath of course is the best part and makes the whole endeavor worth it.
turbokoala

I hope this all ends with a real-life bananaphone. That would be amazing. I find all the bananas fantastic though.
- Anne K.
  
  Thanks, now I’m going to have that in my head for weeks! RING RING RING RING RING RING RING RING INSANITY PHONE
randalll

I think these posts are hilarious.

I also think the people who are complaining about them are idiots.
Anonymous

Orange you glad I didn’t say banana?
dwes

Fun fact: If you buy bananas in Hawaii, buy them green. They are already ripe, and they will be much sweeter than any banana you’ve ever had in the States.
DEL

Bananas are inherently tasty, funny and apparently cause apoplexy.

Look at the lulz. Just look at it!
Cheater

I AM looking at it.
pjcamp

So many bananas!

Feeling a little less than manly these days?
lesbianjesus

If #14 and #15 are any indication

this whole series of Banana articles is doing a great job of culling the low hanging fruit …

but seriously, you people need to lighten up, if you take it personally that you don’t find something funny, then I’d say you have a unhappy life.
Anonymous

Look at this building FULL of bananas!

http://wrongdistance.com/?p=3046
turgidnoodler

Best use of a banana bag in a palindrome:

A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal â€“ Panama!
Anonymous

Virtually all the Bananas you could ever want (using the ever so handy “duplicate/array” command offered in some CAD apps)…you can Just Look at It/Them (which is fine)…or, become the captain of your own destiny and pick yourself up a bunch of Bananas from your own digital banana plantation (because you know you want to):

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?q=banana&styp=m

Some assembly required.
bklynchris

I do not know why…..but I find Corey’s banana posts absolutely endearing, and Rob’s funny.

I mean the banana thing might be a little Freudian, but nonetheless, whimsically satisfying in a world of hopeless sadness.
Lady Katey

Why would anyone want to prevent bananas from ripening??

I physically cannot eat an all-yellow banana. I can’t even swallow it. They’re soft in places and hard in others. Ick.

(Posted while enjoying my morning 1/2 a ripe banana & crunchy peanut butter sandwich)
Anonyman

I find it fascinating when someone insists that their account be deleted. Is it so difficult to just not log in anymore?
Anonymous

Just look at the butthurt posts, look at them!

ahahaha, I will never get people that get sickeningly mad at something on the internet like that, their lifes must be one of immense luxury if they can afford to be this irritated at a joke.
periphera

This crazy new banana shit
Has overrun the steampunk
Just look at it.

We used to see hobos, parasites, and lit
Like a 10 PRINT then GOTO 10 chunk
This crazy new banana shit

I know we’re all waiting for Cory to quit,
But what can I do now, bored and drunk?
Just look at it.

Instead of comics, comix, or comets,
Astroboy, astronauts, or an Asimov-ian monk:
This crazy new banana shit

With happy mutations out there to transmit
I give 19 lines to show how you’ve sunk
Just look at it

It peels, it slices, it covers your kit,
It’s the bestest bag you’ve ever thunk
This crazy new banana shit
Just look at it
- Halloween Jack
  
  That was beautiful.
- misterjuju
  
  That is the best anti-banana complaint I’ve seen yet.
  You other banana haters can learn from periphera.
  Submit your complaints in iambic pentameter!
stormist

These banana posts create the most interesting comments . . .
dbarak

Just look at this awesome banana hammock!

http://www.filmfodder.com/reviews/archives/borat.jpg
druidbros

I do not believe this bag works the way it is advertised. When bananas age they give off a gas which helps them to ripen. If you put them in a bag and contain the gas then they will only ripen faster. Has anyone ever put them in a paper bag?
- Anonymous
  
  The bag absorbs the gas,its called ethylene. The bag either absorbs it or converts it into another gas.
  
  Just think about it..
- ValuedRug
  
  But it’s yellow and it’s anti-ripening.
Anonymous

you all know about the banana saver, i trust:
http://bananasaver.com/

my dad gave these to us all for xmas two years ago. just look at it
Daemon

In other news, he still hasn’t gotten over this banana thing.
dculberson

I enjoy the banana posts about this much: |–|

I enjoy ESQ having illiterate nerd rage about the banana posts about this much: |——|

(Illiterate because “Cory Doctorow” somehow equals “Rob.”)

With all those new readers that Rob pointed out, we gotta filter the commenters somehow. Scaring them off with commandments to look at banana gadgets seems like a worthwhile method.
skeptacally

what about plantains?
MistaPutz

I don’t believe this works. If a bag can stop a banana ripening why wasn’t this discovered before?
- mdh
  
  This bag contains some sort of ethylene scavenging material in it, as ethylene is a plant hormone that triggers senescence. It’s not a new technology, but it is prettier than other similar bags I have seen. I mean, just look at it!
- Rob Beschizza
  
  I’m guessing this is the same thing, phyisically, as putting bits of newspaper between apples in the fruit bowl. It works!
Will_Tingle

Am I the only one who wants to put bananas, in this bag, into the Korean ripening facility…
- Rich Keller
  
  Putting this anti-ripening bag in the ripening facility would be like putting a Bag of Holding in a Portable Hole… It would rip apart the very fabric of the bananaverse.
thequickbrownfox

Facile contempt for your readers, just look at it.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Facile? I work hard at it.
- Rob Beschizza
  
  Entitlement, just look at it.
Anonymous

I own this awesome anti-banana-ripening bag.

So awesome
AceJohnny

@Will_Tingle: excellent idea! I think we could push the idea a little further and try to use the full set of accessories.

Peel half of the banana with the banana peeler, and cut that piece with the banana slicer. Enjoy tasty banana. Keep the other half of the banana with the banana saver clip, and store it in the banana bunker (hopefully it’ll fit). But that protected banana in the anti banana-ripening bag. Finally, put the anti banana-ripening bag along with the peeling simulator in the banana ripening facility, and observe the effects (will the peeling simulator ripen? What about the protected banana?)

I’m confident it’ll tear a hole in space and time.
lewis stoole

i am going to get me one of those and keep apples in it
salsaman

Just look at this banana battery charger:
http://usb.brando.com/usb-banana-2a-3a-battery-charger_p01102c035d15.html

“Yellow LED indicator when battery is full charged” ftw!
Anonymous

If I climb into one will I stay forever young?
babasko

Does it come in different colours? Not sure I like the yellow
dr

Where can I get a sleeping bag made of this stuff?
Ratdog

How on earth do you find these things?
Snig

Am getting a virtual potassium overdose.
Snig

Hopefully, some time soon there will be a day on Boing Boing when we say:
Yes, we have no bananas. Yes we have no bananas today…
ESQ

I’ve reported Rob.

This has to stop.

I actually get *angry* every time I see him post now, he has quickly spoiled this fine site that I have been visiting for the better part of a decade with his painful and unfunny posts.

I used to enjoy boingboing with my morning coffee, now I find I’ve lately been subconsciously bracing myself for another one of his idiotic repetitions.
- arkizzle / Moderator
  
  Also.. “Rob“?
  
  Makes the rant perfect.
- mdh
  
  are you calling Rob a kettle black?
ESQ

Fuck it, I’m done with this site.

Deleting bookmark now.

Delete my account.
- Halloween Jack
  
  Mischief managed!
- arkizzle / Moderator
  
  ESQ,
  
  No problem at all. Uncoupling your account right now, happy to help!
alexx

Just look at how this segment lost its funny after the fifth time or so.
Phikus

Just look at the culling of the people who would go out of their way to complain about the free banana flavored ice cream! ESQ is the first person who would need an anti-ripening bag, it seems, though he finds it un-a-peeling. Don’t slip on your way out, dude. You might get bruised.

Oh yeah, and just look at this!
pupdog

Just look at the soulless people without any sense of whimsy. Just look at them.
Anonymous

OMG.. a post that I’m not interested in. This is the most horrible thing ever and I must whine loudly and say I’m leaving the site because I’m just that self-centered!
ESQ

One last – Alexa ranking, look at it:

Posts started Dec 4th

http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?&w=400&h=220&o=f&c=1&y=r&b=ffffff&r=1m&u=boingboing.net&
- Rob Beschizza
  
  “Posts started Dec 4th”
  
  ESQ, I’m afraid I’m not responsible for these posts. Don’t let the door hit you on your way out.
  
  http://www.quantcast.com/profile/embed?img=http%3A//www.quantcast.com/profile/trafficGraph%3Fwunit%3Dwd%253Anet.boingboing%26drg%3D%26dty%3Dpp%26dtr%3Ddm%26gl%3D6mo%26ggt%3Dlarge%26showDeleteButtons%3Dtrue%26width%3D520&w=520&h=335&showDeleteButtons=false&wunit=Charts.Traffic.FrequencyGraph.9dsZX-5zhUuTg
Uncle_Max

This is a fantastic series, and I’ll be sad when (if?) it ends.
Paul Coleman

Wow…people get riled up by the strangest things. This whole banana thing is turning into a fascinating social experiment. Just look at it.

Keep them banana posts coming!
Anonymous

Honestly, some of you people need to learn discretion. If you find the joke silly or distasteful, just skim right on by. It’s not like keeping up with this blog is easy, so why worry about the posts you don’t like?
ecologist

Shouldn’t that be an awesome “banana anti-ripening bag”, rather than an “anti-banana-ripening bag”? I mean, if you want your anti-bananas to ripen, you take them to the anti-Korean banana-ripening facility. Or something. First thing in the morning pedantry, just look at it!
Bimmi

Tired meme is tired.
zikzak

Politics is not a banana. You cannot get your vital potassium intake from politics. A banana is a fuck toy, a weapon, a charming fruit. Politics is the production of death by any other name. Eat death, you shit.