Photo of the Day: Individually-Wrapped Bananas, Freaking Us Out
Fruit should never be wrapped in a tray meant for ground beef. Especially bananas. This excessive packaging is just ludicrous, unless there are people who actually eat peels and want them super sterile. Also, who's in the back on wrap duty? An intern? Since Flickr user alison*h spotted this madness in Dundee, Scotland the grocery store started applying sticky labels directly to bananas. [via Food-Notes]
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14 Comments:
That's a lot of fail.
roboppy at 8:39PM on 07/01/08
Super Target individually wraps EVERYTHING. I've stopped buying my veggies there because of it. I hated feeling guilty everytime I bought my individually wrapped bell pepper.
Kiana at 8:44PM on 07/01/08
Who buys ONE banana?
PerkyMac at 8:58PM on 07/01/08
Eh, that's painful to see. Bananas are prepackaged! Maybe, due to the banana crisis, they feel the need to take care of each and every banana, guarding it as one might guard a precious gem...
Laryssa at 9:18PM on 07/01/08
Further proof that we've lost our minds as a species. Sad, epic fail.
kurteye at 9:32PM on 07/01/08
that is such a waste of labor, resources and money...shame!
GingerSnap at 9:42PM on 07/01/08
Another sign of the coming apocalypse. Its amazing and sad to me that people are still so oblivious.
simon at 10:07PM on 07/01/08
prepackaged produce is the number one reason i DO NOT shop at trader joe's!!!! ridiculous.
dmarina at 10:51PM on 07/01/08
I used to live in Spanish Harlem and they did this a lot with the fruit at my local C-Town. It always kind of grossed me out!
cakespy at 1:09AM on 07/02/08
I can't find it right now, but I've seen a photo of individually wrapped peanuts from Japan. I hope those trays are biodegradable.
Thomasj at 7:50AM on 07/02/08
Also, wrapping in plastic degrades the fruit, and makes it over-ripen and soften to quickly. It's bad all around.
Carolina de Witte at 8:31AM on 07/02/08
Morrisons also shrinkwraps bell peppers and broccoli. And avocadoes.
sulin at 11:35AM on 07/02/08
Morrisons is also where I saw a coconut wrapped in the same way; shrinkwrap and a plastic tray. Ludicrous!
fuchsoid at 1:27PM on 07/02/08
does anyone else find it strange that they are all priced differently...?
boltchloer at 12:43AM on 07/08/08