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Bananas aren't at all like carrots or cucumbers... they're difficult to store neatly as they all have an horrendous kink in them.
The BubbaCo Banana Unbender slowly stretches the bent banana out, holding the confused fruit gently but firmly as it goes about its task, removing the bends and sending
them to people you don't like.
After a couple of hours you have wonderfully straight, unbruised bananas, easily stored on a fruit platter, or stacked into a neat little log cabin on your kitchen bench.
Whatever bends your banana...
http://www.nytimes....ibes-at-europe.html
...is allegedly banned. [Amos Kito, Sep 07 2009]
Egg cuber
http://www.thekitch...e.com/eggcuber.html
No wierder than a banana straightener [Jim Bob of Merriam Park, Sep 11 2009]
Another, similar idea.
Squeggs
From some time ago. [UnaBubba, Sep 12 2009]
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There's that liqueur that comes bottled with an entire pear inside, you could probably do something similar with bananas, for storage purposes too. |
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I thought this was going to be some sort of anti-entropy device that took a smoothie and recreated the fruit. [+] anyway. Bananas are very inconveniently shaped if you don't have a tree to hang them on. |
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The more I think about it, the better this idea is. Could they be unbended at source though? |
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//removing the bends and sending them to people you don't like// |
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There's your bun - right there. |
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I once suffered from a case of banana bends. |
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Sounds like someone didn't like you, [tatters]. |
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I store my bananas next to a microscopic black hole. The intense gravitational field produced by the black hole is sufficient to curve the fabric of spacetime, in accordance with Einstein's theory of relativity. Within the context of this curved space, bananas appear perfectly straight. |
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Ah yes, Baldric, a hole so dense that light bends around it as it passes by. |
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Sorry, UB. I'm afraid I might have to post the first fishbone for this idea - I find the naturally-curved shape of the banana is ideal for the construction of neat little log yurts. |
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Not saying you have to straighten them... unless you're OCD about that sort of thing. |
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Log Cabin Republican Bananas... or not. |
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not sure that I like this! A banana split probably wouldn't work as well with a straight one because it couldn't lie in the bowl nicely. And I like banana splits. mmmm. |
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Then buy a bent one, [p_t]. There's plenty of them out there. |
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//I find the naturally-curved shape of the banana is ideal for the construction of neat little log yurts.// |
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I like to eat banana yoghurt in my banana log yurt. |
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I was eating my yoghurt when I slipped and fell on it, Doc... honest. |
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I was just vacuuming my banana, when… |
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Does the device operate on only one banana at a time? Does it have some kind of loading cartridge to automate the process? How is it powered? |
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// a straight one... couldn't lie in the bowl nicely // |
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I'm a little concerned about holding a confused fruit gently but firmly as it goes about its task. The last time I tried that was something of a disappointment. |
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//The last time I tried that was something of a disappointment// |
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Try using one of the new lubricants. The ones with *cooling* stimulant added. That might help. |
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I think the way we treat bananas and custard around
here is proof positive that the halfbakery, as a
whole, suffers from a major eating disorder. |
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I've just not thought of a clever name yet. |
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Perhaps straight bananas could be produced in a manner similar to continuous scotch egg, yielding an endless, extruded reconstituted banana in reconstituted skin. |
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The consumer could purchase the product by the yard (metre for the decimally minded, who may gloat in the belief that they are getting 9.44% more, but unaware that what they gain in endless banana, they lose in karmic credit and will one day put their hand in their pocket to find something unpleasant) |
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Perhaps the continuous banana could be called bananananananananananananan... |
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I'll just have a nana, thanks. |
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I was just trying to find one of those nana straighteners when I met... |
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There is something very comforting about being
amoungst you all, on 9/11, with a silly idea and a
smile. This place pulled me out of my funk then, and
it still does, more times than not. |
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So here's a straight up banana to you, jutta, and a
bent one for the road. |
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That depends upon the thickness of the banana. |
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bananas are each an individual mother nature smile |
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why make them conform
everything everything is mechanical and linear already
why do this to bananas
think of the monkeys man |
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straightened bananas should be called blannas |
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your banana soul ripper should stamp bar codes on them while its at it and paint them black |
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Those disgusted by the idea of straightness could pay extra for a nanana extruded as a continuous spiral, for nostalgia's sake. Gadget freaks could purchase lengths of spiranana and run it through the unbender. |
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I think the only way you'll get straight bananas is to allow them to grow inside a tube, while on the plant. Square or hexagonal cross section for improved packing efficiency. |
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