This story is bananas

If you're tired of throwing away past-their-prime bananas, a South Korean supermarket chain has the solution for you: packaged bananas, each of which contains varying levels of ripeness. A Korean-American blogger who goes by the name of T.K. Park was the first to tweet about E-Mart's solution to ensuring that your week's supply of bananas both start and end with a perfect one, saving you the problem of under-ripe fruit at the beginning of the week, and over-ripe fruit at week's end. On Friday, a pack of six was selling for 2,980 South Korean won on E-Mart's website, the equivalent of approximately $2.65 American dollars. Many on Twitter thought the idea was genius: Some sell better products, others sell existing products better. 🇰🇷🍌 E-mart in Korea offers "One-A-Day" banana pack with different ripeness so that you can eat them over several days. Plastic packaging aside, this is brilliant! 🏆#sales #salestip #selling #marketing pic.twitter.com/l1C8EYiLq1 "One-a-day banana," feat. bananas at varying stages of ripeness. Korea gets it. pic.twitter.com/bOIhS0MrVX But there were holdouts: You can do this yourself at the grocery store...just sayin. people eat just one banana a day????? https://t.co/46bloqM9Cg Of course, it's also worth considering the damage to the environment that the product's plastic packaging could cause. Especially because bananas naturally come with, you know, biodegradable on-the-go packaging of their own. Shrink-wrapped in plastic???? NOT smart #Korea! Yaaaay more plastic to throw away #NOT 🙄 Well, this would have to be the least ingenious ingeniousness I ever saw; produce in nature's own biodegradable and anti-bacterial wrapping, unnessesarily packed in noxious, polluting man-made wrapping Or, you could just take this Twitter user's suggestion to avoid the problem entirely: It's a good idea but still seems most people don't know you can put bananas in the fridge. The peels get dark but the fruit isn't affected, just slows down decay. I buy a bunch and eat one a day and rarely have any that are too far gone.

This story is bananas

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