iFixIt's awesome teardown site (which contains instructions for skinning and gutting many devices) has this fascinating HOWTO for disassembling a banana:
Step 4*
Insert your thumbs into the split of the peel and pull the two sides apart.
*Expose the top of the banana. It may be slightly squished from pulling on the stem, but this will not affect the flavor.
Step 5
*Pull open the peel, starting from your original split, and opening it along the length of the banana.
(via Lessig)
Previously:
- Robber uses banana as "gun" – Boing Boing
- HOWTO turn a banana into a no-spoon baby-meal – Boing Boing
- Geostationary Banana Over Texas – airship artwork – Boing Boing
- History of the ingredients in a banana split – Boing Boing
- Amy Crehore's "Banana Eater" painting – Boing Boing
- Boing Boing: Peeling bananas from the other end is easier
- Odd new product — creme-filled bananas – Boing Boing
