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Spiders In Bananas
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:56 am
by bill1953
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?
Re: Spiders In Bananas
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:40 am
by MKG
No - but I've seen Bananas in Pyjamas.
Mike
Re: Spiders In Bananas
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:00 pm
by gregorach
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.
Re: Spiders In Bananas
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:03 pm
by Paul_C
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
Re: Spiders In Bananas
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:10 pm
by bill1953
Re: Spiders In Bananas
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:40 pm
by gregorach
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...
Re: Spiders In Bananas
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:09 pm
by Paul_C
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
Re: Spiders In Bananas
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:39 pm
by trinder
MKG wrote:No - but I've seen Bananas in Pyjamas.
Mike
slipped under the radar with that one Mike. Well not quite
Edinburgh is really top topic today isn't it.
Re: Spiders In Bananas
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:50 pm
by Susie
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...
Re: Spiders In Bananas
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:56 pm
by wabbit955
nope no spider but did found a scorpian in one but that was 20 years ago
Re: Spiders In Bananas
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:29 pm
by bill1953
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?
Re: Spiders In Bananas
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:00 am
by trinder
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
Re: Spiders In Bananas
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:34 am
by bill1953
Oh I get it now
Re: Spiders In Bananas
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:09 am
by gregorach
Re: Spiders In Bananas
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:43 am
by trinder
OMG