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Not a recipe, but a method.

How to peel a banana. In a diagram that looks good in a text editor using a fixed width font but looks horrible in my browser, at least:

Code:

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| |<- stem. DO NOT peel from here
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Instead, turn the banana right-side up and peel from there. This method provides a handle, peels more easily, and leaves all those stringy things (there's a name for them but I can't remember) on the peel, not the fruit.

Code:

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/ \<- insert thumbnail here and peel
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\   /
|_|<- hold here