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Keeps the banana from getting bruised while it's in your lunch sack or backpack.
Banana Guard
http://www.bananaguard.com/
Includes a glow-in-the-dark model. [waugsqueke, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Simple, useful. Heard a truck-drivin' man on the radio yesterday ("Splendid Table" culinary show) complaining that vibration in his big rig caused the yellow delicacies to turn black and gooey in a single day. Get your patent attorney on the phone ASAP. |
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Be sure and do drop tests. What UPS tester does is this, after putting package on shaker table which simulates a 3000 or so mile road trip, they do drops from a height of @ 30 + inches onto each edge including corners, along with the flat sides. If contents of package have not been 'modified' AND the contents have not 'modified', then the package is UPS approved for shipping and packaging/cardboard/styrofoam firms can really get busy. I used to manage a facility where we shipped out close to 1/2 million Stock Photography Books annually and were getting ready to go into the web/wine shipping biz at its genesis. However, the Videotape shipping biz we were also involved in got slammed hard. They moneymen tried to do smoke and mirrors with funds to rescue one operation, ended up crashing the whole company. Idiots-Glad I saw they weren't going to follow my advice, and got out of there - the others who stayed never got paid for last month of work, while I managed to get a Parachute Package on top of leaving. |
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This would have to be stiff, not just pouchy, to keep the banana from getting squished, not just bruised. More like a bent, padded cardboard tube. |
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I'd like an "executive" model: a rugged, stylish brushed aluminum briefcase, which opens to expose a solid grey foam interior cut with custom form-fitting banana sockets. |
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Should be fun at airport security. |
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The foam liner could be changed to support other soft fruit such as pears or kiwi fruit. |
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Make some fast money before they start breeding bananas with thicker skins. |
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Keep mine in my shoulder holster. My road rage has radically declined. |
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Sometimes I worry about you....
MSB 2002 is already abandonware, Rods Tiger.
(And it's MyYou'reSoft Banana 2002...let's avoid being 'bought out' by Bill Gates & Companies...since MyYou'reSoft is TWO companies ever since that anti-slip peel lawsuit.) |
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I like TickleMeElmo's idea - but I think in singular form, like an oversized aluminium cigar case, only banana-shaped. |
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While we're talking about bananas, I want to know why my science teacher thinks, or thought, that spiders live in bananas. Personally, I think she is a whack. |
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I can tell you that large carribbean spiders love bananas. I used to spend my school hols stacking grocery shelves at the supermarket, and I can tell you no-one wwanted to do banana detail. I reckon you would get one very large hairy black spider in about one box in 10. Yeuch. |
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I bet it's not the bananas that the spiders love -- I bet they love the bugs that love the bananas. |
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I bet they just love the glamour of being in the banana trade. |
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Do you know how hard it is for
a spider to get a visa? |
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Hey [beauxeault], "time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana..." |
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For some reason, everytime I see this idea name I think of the cucumber-in-tin-foil scene in This is Spinal Tap. |
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Banana disaster! Bananas emit a ripening agent, so if they
are sealed tight, they turn black within a day. They also
ripen other fruit if sealed into a banana coffin! Unless it's
got breathing holes, the banana sleeve will be the enemy
of bananas everywhere. |
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I like to wait till there is a bit of a crowd around the banana boxes and then let out a high pitched scream - gets 'em everytime |
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Oh dear! I just posted a very similar idea and then checked - and found it was already here. (note to self - check *before* posting!) So here's what I wrote: Not a lot more to say really - but I envisioned a simple piece of wipe-clean material, padded or quilted or like bubble wrap. Velcro-style strips to keep it securely wrapped round the fruit - variable circumference, and probably should be longer than necessary, in case you have a jumbo banana one day. Bananas get bruised and bashed even if you carry them in a lunchbox, and wrapping round kitchen towel isn't protective enough, I find. Maybe I just have weak bananas. |
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This reminds me of the Spaghetti Single, a thin tube into which you insert a single strand of leftover spaghetti to place into the fridge for later. An invention marketer was contacted, and he said, “fantastic, fantastic – I think you are really on to something!” |
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It would be nice if this was made of something non-gas-permeable to keep my entire lunch from tasting like bananas. Plastic bags/Tupperware don't seem to do the job. How small *are* banana scent molecules anyway? |
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The banana-ripening signal molecule is ethene (or ethylene) C2H4. But I doubt these are what make the banana smell. |
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May I propose the banandolier, for those who wish to wear their bananas? |
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Or alternatively, the banandanana? |
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One could dip bananas in various colored waxes for decorative and protective purposes. |
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You could just use a sock, or old underwear... |
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is that a banana in your old underwear or ... |
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