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I do. Then you also have a handle to eat it with!

I do something similar, but I also open it by also removing that black nubbin in the first peel strip. I hate that black thing and it's a huge turn-off to my banana experience to see that thing at the bottom end of my banana enjoyment. I'd rather just get it out of the way, and savor the banana with gusto with no worries of accidentally eating that thing. As a kid, I love to eat it with gusto hanging on to my handle!
Everyone I know makes fun of the way I peel bananas, saying it's upside down and backwards or whatnot. I just don't think they understand the worry-free joy I feel with that black thing out of the way. :-)

I have been since I first was shown in High School. It's way easier than the way people normally do and the peels look like cartoon banana peels. If you look at banana peels in cartoons it's true, that little handle thing is always at the center of the opened peel. I always bruise the fruit if I open the "traditional" way too.

and @omymai...i also hate that black thing! and remove that as soon as the banana is peeled.

@Lorenzo: lolz!

I've never had any problem opening at the stem. Sometimes it might get squashed at the opening, but that's the first part one would eat so it doesn't have any time to bruise. In any case, I might have to try this new approach next time I get bananas. Hey, look, I've just found an excuse to go out later today and pick up some fresh fruit. WIN!

love thats he is wearing monkey PJ's too clearly feeling the monkey theme

Best banana-opening trick: take banana in both hands by each end. SNAP. Doesn't sound like it'll work, but it does. The first time I tried it, skeptical, I was so shocked by the banana giving way that both halves flew out of my hands.

I actually do peal banana's like this, especially when i can't get the other end and don't want a mushy mess.

Wow this is an article?

All I do is stick a needle and thread in the banana at various spots so it comes out in chunks. Just kidding. I've always wanted to try that though.

My husband saw the video with me and said, "of course." Apparently, he peels his bananas that way. I just yank on the stem. If it gets squashed at the top, so be it. I don't eat the pointy ends (top and bottom) anyway.

For several years I took care of a large group of monkeys (baboons and rhesus mostly but many species). Part of my job was daily feedings. I never, ever saw a monkey peel a banana. They eat the whole thing as is. Same with oranges, lemons, and any other fruit that humans would normally peel.

I peel it like this. I initially tired peeling like this because I read it pulls off all of the little stringy things on the fruit. It doesn't work, but I then realized how much easier it is to peel the bananas this way. Plus you get the handle!

I have been peeling my bananas like this for just the last few years. I saw my department director open a banana like that one day and I asked why. He just told me it was a lot easier. I tried it on my next banana and havn't struggled to open it from the stem end again since. I even have my dad converted to the monkey method too! I have to take the little black bit off too though, it isn't good.