Banana drama
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I think that would alert me to the fact that the captain is a fruit and I should find a boat with a less psychotic operator.
Darcey
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There's a part of me that wants to hand out a banana to each diver when I go to Belize in March just to see what happens....
...but then I think I'd cry if all of the tasty bananas got thrown over or would have to go dive for them. Especially if they were dancing ones.
Ya know, I have a couple of friends who are Captains and have licenses to captain any vessel of any size out there on inland waters...and none of them, through all of their nautical studies know about the banana superstition. They know of lots of others...but not the banana.
...but then I think I'd cry if all of the tasty bananas got thrown over or would have to go dive for them. Especially if they were dancing ones.
Ya know, I have a couple of friends who are Captains and have licenses to captain any vessel of any size out there on inland waters...and none of them, through all of their nautical studies know about the banana superstition. They know of lots of others...but not the banana.
"I mean a method they have actually used with success..."
That happens when I enlarge the page print with CTRL and +
Have you done that or changed other settings?
It works. The skins get darker but the fruit is ok, and no Fruit Flies
What does that accomplish? I've read that they may last longer, but how would it stop the Fruit Flies from hatching out? (FYI: All bananas have Fruit Flie maggots on the skin.) I'd forgotten about that idea, meant to try it so they'd ripen more gently and uniformly, but the buggers will still hatch
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Hey DD,
Many months later; you questions still haunts my mind and irritate my sleep.....
until I found this: A simple DIY solution
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Neat trick with heavy coat hanger! I'll try it, wiht a vinyl coated one that won't mar my counter top.
As far as the flies, I stopped putting the skins in my trash where they waited until the can got full. Now I put them in a sealed container to be composted when it fills. No more flies.
As far as the flies, I stopped putting the skins in my trash where they waited until the can got full. Now I put them in a sealed container to be composted when it fills. No more flies.
When I started my OW classes, the practice classes, I started with leg cramps.
One of the instructors told me to eat bananas as they add minerals that avoid cramps. My own experience says that this is true.
In the check out dive done in a ship off the coast of Brazil, there were plenty bananas for lunch and at every time we were almost pushed to eat bananas.
Since then in every dive boat in South America I dove I could find bananas and they are considered the friend of the diver.
One of the instructors told me to eat bananas as they add minerals that avoid cramps. My own experience says that this is true.
In the check out dive done in a ship off the coast of Brazil, there were plenty bananas for lunch and at every time we were almost pushed to eat bananas.
Since then in every dive boat in South America I dove I could find bananas and they are considered the friend of the diver.
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