A Tiny Tale Of Ugly Bananas

When I Went Full Bananas Over Food Waste

Photo by Elena Koycheva on Unsplash

‘Finish all your food on the plate!’ Don’t all mothers say it? Whether we take it for granted or not, isn’t there more to the saying? We shouldn’t waste our food.

But today I saw ‘a crime’ that I shouldn’t have seen. A box of overripe bananas almost ended up in the bin. Don’t blame my vegan instinct if I shamed the suspect, a local fruit shop owner when I caught him threw away bananas like they were nothing for him. Today I saw him, with my own eyes really, throwing away bananas more like a criminal than a champion.

With a box of full overripe bananas, he sneaked out to the back room of his shop. I went full bananas when I found out the fruit shop owner had plotted to abandon those poor all kinds of vitamin resources without me knowing it all.

I could only imagine, if I didn’ save them from the darkness of the dingy backroom and the stinky bin, the following morning, they would have ended up in the garbage truck. But no! How could I say goodbye to those bananas?

But he said, ‘No one buys ugly bananas!’ Excuse me, do you mean overripe bananas? You know that, don’t you? You can do a thousand things with overripe bananas. Just Google it: what can you do with overripe bananas? In fact, according to taste website, you can make 66…