Evidently the marketeers are not. Supermarkets have seemingly come up with a psychological ploy to encourage consumers to purchase that threat* to civilization, the pile of unsold single bananas. Their information strategy is to stir an emotional appeal with the use of message labels such as: "We are sad singles and want to be bought as well." The ploy seemingly has empiric effect and academics at a British university have undertaken focus group research to determine whether descriptors such as 'sad singles' has more measurable effect than 'happy singles.' Signs showing melancholy seem to have optimal impact. The Stop Press suggests it works for tomatoes too. *As for the threat, this follows studies by a 'well known' German supermarket chain that identified single bananas as the root (pun intended) of the highest amount of climate impact and of food wasted at retailers. Should we persuade ltdan to give up beans and become a banana counter instead? Perhaps 'Skin baby, skin!' will become a new catchphrase across the Pond? Mind you, it could pose issues for refurbishing high value artworks. Should there be a dating (pun not intended) site for bananas?
Crypto boss eats banana artwork bought for $6.2m "Eating it at a press conference can also become a part of the artwork's history", Mr Sun said. Oh ffs, I'll get me coat, I'm off for a walk .
The jury's still out ....... Perhaps to be continued with: 'How many recipes do you know where banana skins are included as an ingredient?'
"How many recipes do you know where banana skins are included as an ingredient?' For food or explosive ordnance? Kind regards, no, not that cookbook, always, Jim.
Military Masters can be quite 'squiffy' about the names applied to elements of combat activity. For example, it is unlikely that the word banana would be selected as a mission codename, because potential next of kin would not be impressed by the loss of a close relative in an Operation BANANA. That said, terrain features are sometimes nicknamed according to their shape (not always recommended for operations security) or other reasons, but these may be sustained to avoid ambiguity - an example would be Banana Ridge in: The Battle of the Peaks and Longstop Hill Tunisia April -May 1943 There are always exceptions and at a 'three score and ten' party for a very old school friend last night, the Thread Subject cropped up and he mentioned that his father had worked on 'the Banana plane' in the late 1950s. I asked him to expand and he said that 'Dad had always called the Buccaneer 'the Banana' at home.' This has some basis: Blackburn's design (Project B-103) won the tender in July 1955. For reasons of secrecy, the aircraft was called BNA (Blackburn Naval Aircraft) or BANA (Blackburn Advanced Naval Aircraft) in documents, leading to the nickname of "Banana Jet". Still awkward, arguably, when test crew lose their lives, though: I wondered whether any WW2 aircraft had borne a name involving 'banana' and have only come across one so far, B-17G 42-37822: The Lead Banana I could imagine trainer aircraft being described as bananas due to colour scheme. The Royal Navy evidently used STUFT banana boats: BBC - WW2 People's War - HMS Hunter and 4 Carrier Borne Air Liaison Section as did the USN, three reportedly being used as blockade runners for Corregidor. And so geographically, I shall close on that particular delicacy, banana ketchup: The Unlikely Connection: Banana Ketchup and World War II
"En Algérie, dans le djebel, un légionnaire monte la garde......." Banane à l'assaut. Kind regards, toujours, Jim.
