One banana ripened faster than the rest.

ILL_Show_Myself_Out · 2012-09-16T18:37:30+00:00

This is so incredibly mildly interesting I'm having a mildgasm.

iwantafunnyname · 2012-09-16T21:28:35+00:00

I wish all bananas did this. Just have one ripen every day. I never eat them fast enough.

the_television · 2012-09-16T14:48:02-07:00

sure it did

boinGfliP14 · 2012-09-16T18:54:23+00:00

Would anyone understand a Steins-Gate reference?

No? Alright then nvm.

make_baloney · 2012-09-16T15:45:36-07:00

Hm, this is interesting. Ripening fruit should become ripe more or less simultaneously. The ripening process in bananas is controlled by the hormone ethylene, and ethylene (a gas) itself is emitted during this process, speeding up the ripening of fruit around it. So, it is weird, based on color, that the process has not even started in the adjacent fruits.

Tip: If you want fruit to ripe faster, put it together with plants in the process of flowering, as flowers also emit ethylene, or together with other, more ripe, fruit.

statuek · 2012-09-16T23:30:42+00:00

I'm colorblind and it took me a full minute to figure out what this was about. Looking for dark spots :(

marty_marshall · 2012-09-16T14:32:20-07:00

neat

OctopusBrine · 2012-09-16T23:57:30+00:00

Ok so, if this actually real and not shooped, I have an explanation for this! Somewhere on the yellow banana that is not shown from this perspective there is a large gash or bruise. Damage to any part of the fruit makes the rest of the fruit ripen faster. Bananas produce ethylene gas when they are damaged (source).

chicubs3794 · 2012-09-17T01:26:33+00:00

That banana is Alpha as fuck

That1WeirdKid · 2012-09-17T02:24:17+00:00

Overachieving banana?

ChaGz15 · 2012-09-16T21:43:47+00:00

Over archiving banana.

dutch010 · 2012-09-16T15:49:28-07:00

That's an appealing banana.

kyuukyuu · 2012-09-17T02:06:02+00:00

Tutturu~

SuperBananners · 2012-09-16T22:40:47+00:00

I am SuperBananners and i approve of this picture.

ZombieWrath · 2012-09-16T19:28:55+00:00

Mother of god.

exiled_one · 2012-09-16T23:16:36+00:00

It's the choosen one!

nubbled21 · 2012-09-16T23:28:54+00:00

Bananas are kinda like traffic lights...

ander594 · 2012-09-17T00:24:47+00:00

...But how do you know for sure?

signspam · 2012-09-17T00:49:59+00:00

Did you photoshoppe a banana? DID YOU!?

zombiehippie · 2012-09-16T18:21:26-07:00

over achiever at work

NudeTayneMNW · 2012-09-17T01:33:59+00:00

I bet the other bananas never hear the end of it from their parents either.

CuntBelieveItsNotBtr · 2012-09-17T01:38:01+00:00

I used to work at Price Chopper in the produce department. Happens more than you think.

Androne · 2012-09-17T01:38:22+00:00

His name was Micheal

Proper_Drunk · 2012-09-17T01:47:52+00:00

that banana's going places.

AmadeusCrumb · 2012-09-17T01:51:44+00:00

Is the yellow one Willem Dafoe?

Riddlesex · 2012-09-17T01:55:27+00:00

Bananas are shipped green, then artificially ripened with ethylene gas close to their point of sale. My father-in-law was a short-haul trucker for a regional grocery company, and often brought home improperly (over-, under-, or unevenly) gassed bananas for his family. A quick Google confirms that they weren't just falling off the back of the truck.

BokehBurgher · 2012-09-17T02:04:09+00:00

that's what she said.

NPraisin · 2012-09-17T02:07:50+00:00

You know how on a stop light, green means go and yellow means slow down? Well, with a banana, it's quite the opposite. Yellow means go, green means slow down. And red means where the fuck did you get that banana?

jtcompound · 2012-09-17T02:48:48+00:00

Which one?

geosensation · 2012-09-17T02:57:47+00:00

Couldn't you just wrap that single banana in a plastic bag of some sort and achieve the result here?

boredmessiah · 2012-09-16T19:58:01-07:00

This really belongs in /r/itookapicture

MrMathamagician · 2012-09-17T03:06:10+00:00

"The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long."

TrixieDawn · 2012-09-17T03:18:56+00:00

My 5 year old says OP put sunblock on the green bananas. Now you know.

floppykittens · 2012-09-16T20:21:51-07:00

photoshooped duuuh

rbrink13 · 2012-09-17T03:38:28+00:00

Overachiever.

TheEidolonReality · 2012-09-17T03:58:31+00:00

r/conspiracy should have an explanation for this

007T · 2012-09-16T21:04:07-07:00

To replicate this: Put a tomato in a bag, place single banana from the bunch into the bag and close off the bag around the top of the banana. Ethylene gas produced by the tomato will encourage accelerated ripening for the banana in the bag.

Motorsheep · 2012-09-17T04:38:34+00:00

Bananas... now with Lymon™

zombiej3sus · 2012-09-17T08:02:01+00:00

Hipster banana. Yellow before it was cool.

RabieBabies · 2012-09-17T08:36:14+00:00

gel banana

Superneutra · 2012-09-16T18:04:35+00:00

Usain Bolt of the banana race

Phlexonance · 2012-09-16T20:43:19+00:00

It's more likely that the plant was a hybrid and the 1 yellow banana in the bunch is a different variety of bananas

gullibletrout · 2012-09-16T22:26:04+00:00

Price Chopper I see. More than likely you are from upstate New York. I'm on to you OP...

mabonuob · 2012-09-17T02:35:06+00:00

x-post to /r/banana!

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