Agnes by Tony Cochran for September 11, 2014

Not very a-peeling if step 1 is omitted.

Well, I’d think if you chewed the tip long enough, you could bite it off….

Then if it were ripe, you wouldn’t HAVE to peel it…you could just squish the banana out the open end, like toothpaste, right into your mouth.

If you try it, let me know whether it works, OK?

Like Brian Regan’s Pop Tart instructions. Step 1. Open the pouch. Step 2. Toast the Pop Tart.

Frame Two: Good Friend Trout: This is my best lesson for today – avoid eye contact and keep something stuffed in my mouth so I can keep my comments to myself!!

I never knew the peel was edible until recently. I still wouldn’t want to eat it though.

I always open bananas from the blossom end, rather than the stem. My mother was sawing away at the stem, and had mashed part of the banana but still hadn’t opened the thing, so I took it from her, opened it, and handed it back. She gave me the oddest look, peeled the thing all the way down, turned the banana 180 degrees and stuck it back into the skin before she ate it.

The first time my brother’s kid tried shrimp he tried to eat the peel. That boy still hasn’t learned much in the intervening forty years.

Oog.

Food comes with instructions? Why am I just learning this?