To what depths have we sunk?

So now bananas take too long to peel? Great. You still have to unwrap them though! We are so lazy!

Uncrustables gross me out! How lazy can a person be? Just make the darn sandwich!

Oooh, but the worst for me was seeing a "Deviled Egg Kit" in Walmart once. It came on a tray with already halved and empty hard boiled egg whites, then the filling was already in a piping bag.

I don't see a banana peeling attachment with it...deal breaker for me.

I am officialy announing that my new spiral cut bannana slicer product and marketing empire is now for sale. To what peak have I climbed? Ya know, it's surprisingly lonely and cold up here.

I wonder if this is like the baby-carrot boondoogle? Baby carrots were just a line extension to be able to use/sell less, ummmm, "attractive" regular carrots.

Some marketing guy may have run the numbers and realized that un-sellable "ugly"-peeled bananas could be peeled, wrapped and sold for a profit????

I sincerely hope that everyone washes their banana before peeling it and even then is careful not to touch the peeled fruit until they have washed their hands very carefully. There are several recent studies about the contamination of banana skins from foreign countries - including an unusually high incidence off flesh eating bacteria present and coagulase-positive staphylococcus (MRSA). And for those who use the naturopathic way of using banana peels to treat nipple problems. Stop right away.

as dumb as cut up apples, sliced up melon, single packaged hotdogs, etc. all wasteful!
people will endup buying the bananna's because they are to LAZY!

There is one acceptable time and place for uncrustables and one only-- in school snack situations where children can only eat factory sealed donated snacks for legal reasons like at my kid's paranoid school. >_<

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Wouldn't it take longer to take off the packaging than it would to just peel the banana in the first place????

I just can't believe this is going to be a commercial success.

I also found the pre-made and packaged PB & J sandwiches disturbing. If you can't find the time to smear peanut butter and jelly on bread, you need to re-think your lifestyle! Or, if your kid is older than 3 or 4 and can't do this themselves.......????? But they have been around for years, someone is buying them. How sad.

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Are you serious about this? My favorite "No problem" fruit now is a "super problem?"<sigh> Although I don't touch the peeled banana, they do get handled without hand washing.

Don't they call that baby food?

Last year my daughter's school was like that. No grapes, carrot sticks, etc, unless they were pre-packaged. So I bought a small 'zip lock' (actually press and seal) mylar bag and sent her snack like that.

I also bought the Pampered Chef -Cut and Seal (both 3 and 4 inch) to make her little PB&J look factory made. Never had an issue out of it.



Now, I will make about 10-15 of those "uncrustables' and freeze them for snacks. Kids like them and it is a time saver in certain situations.

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I'd really like to read more about this. Do you have any links? A quick google of MRSA and bananas didn't turn anything up.

You know, all this pre-"anything" food is the epitome of laziness. I can't imagine getting all worked up over having to peel my banana. They call this "value added", but I call it "adding to the laziness of an already lazy populace".

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Oh, you have to be kidding!

That makes sense. I can see where it might help with processing a bunch of bananas at one time.

Still, I couldn't help ROFL at some of those reviews.

Oh my gosh, I did not know this!

I would like to be able to buy a sensor that would have a countdown to when a banana is going to be ripe.

Then an alarm would go off so that it could be eaten during that 5-minute phase between when it is a hard green thing and a phallus of bland mush.

Oh, and those "rootbeer spots" don't taste anything like rootbeer! (Dang it!)

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Less barking! More wagging!

I hate to say it but when I drove truck some of these prepackaged foods really made my day. It's really convenient to be able to open a bowl of sliced melon. Or grab a couple of boiled peeled eggs. One gets really tired of restaurant fare so some of these things can be a lifesaver in the right circumstance....I did get really good at cooking stuff in the crockpot though.

Thank you for even more inspiration...my spiral slicer empire now includes the new, and annoucned exclusively here on Homesteading Today, drum roll please...The Pop Up Banana Overripe Detector. It is really a modified Pop Up Turkey Thermometer. You just ram it into a banana and when the banana gets to too soft, the friction lets the plastic barb pop out.