Spiders In Bananas

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Spiders In Bananas

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When I was a boy in Dublin I had a sister who worked in a greengrocer and always came home with tales of huge spiders in the banana boxes. Don't hear so much of this sort of thing now. Has anyone ever found one?
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No - but I've seen Bananas in Pyjamas.

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I've certainly never found one, but then I find the bananas in this country so disappointing that I don't buy them... There are certainly a number of media reports of spiders turning up in bananas out there. It may be less common nowadays because of changes in transportation (I believe they're now usually shipped in cold storage and then force-ripened with ethylene gas, which probably doesn't do the spiders any favours), or it may be that the stories were more common that the actual spiders.
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modern banananas are shipped in a nitrogen atmosphere to keep them fresh for longer which kills the spiders.

i worked in a place where after each deliver of banannas somone had to sort through them to remove the dead spiders
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Just found this recent report

http://local.stv.tv/edinburgh/news/2987 ... s-at-asda/
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Paul_C wrote:i worked in a place where after each deliver of banannas somone had to sort through them to remove the dead spiders
That must be a popular job...
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frankly given the choice between scrapin spuds with a tosspot manager or idly doing feck all but remove spider carcasses in private, in the warm listening to my ipod i know which i rpefered
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MKG wrote:No - but I've seen Bananas in Pyjamas.

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slipped under the radar with that one Mike. Well not quite :wave:

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MKG wrote:No - but I've seen Bananas in Pyjamas.

Mike
That was my first thought.

Also I'm admiring your correct spelling of pyjamas...
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nope no spider but did found a scorpian in one but that was 20 years ago
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Susie wrote:
MKG wrote:No - but I've seen Bananas in Pyjamas.

Mike
That was my first thought.

Also I'm admiring your correct spelling of pyjamas...
Sorry but I am Irish............what's this about bananas and pyjamas? :scratch:
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I am really optomistic about you Bill.
But just to make sure......"is that a banana in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me" perhaps I'm wrong but that's what I read into it x
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Post: # 255503Post bill1953 »

Oh I get it now :oops:
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No, it's a kid's TV show: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... in+pajamas
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:oops: OMG
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