Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Who knew I needed one?

Possibly, no definitely, the most useless and amusing item I have purchased this year cost the princely sum of £1. It's, wait for it, a banana case. Yep, that's right, a fruit that already comes in a little case provided by nature now has another skin provided by a plastics manufacturer - who thinks of these things?

Even better though. not only has the freshness of my fruit been improved (apparently) by putting it inside the case that has small holes along the sides to aid in its ripening process but my table etiquette has been improved immensely by the inclusion in said case of a small fork. I can now eat my banana using plastic cutlery. I've no idea how this little gadget slipped by me for most of my fifty three years but now we have been united I am grateful.

Banana Case (without fork)





2 comments:

Span Ows said...

I see corruption: I bet the manufacturer of his irreplaceable and infinitely desirable banana holder is a family member or partner of an MEP and had early information about the EU-introduced limits stipulating sizes of banana!

P.S. How is the freshness improved?

Paul said...

I'd never seen them before Sunday but google it and there are thousands out there!


Re the P.S - the holes are supposed to help the air circulate evenly.