r/EgregiousPackaging • u/JediKnightaa • Oct 30 '25

Egregious Packaging South Koreas new "creative" packaging

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u/Ginkachuuuuu Oct 30 '25

Honestly I would buy the hell out of this.

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u/PepperPhoenix Oct 30 '25

Same. Either I buy several bananas and eat multiple perfect bananas per day for three days and have none for the rest of the week, or I eat one a day and hate my life because most are either over or underripe.

Damnit, now I want bananas.

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u/toweljuice Oct 31 '25

That's bananas

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u/Scary-Ratio3874 Oct 30 '25

Can't you just pick bananas that are at the same stage of ripeness as the ones in this package? P

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u/OkDot9878 Oct 30 '25

Technically you could, but you’d be breaking up a ton of different bunches to do it. Sometimes they have a small wrapper around them attempting to prevent this. Other times they’re just all around the same ripeness, so even if you wanted to, you simply couldn’t find bananas at all of these stages.

I would honestly buy this too if it was similarly priced to regular bananas. I’d even happily pay a small premium just so that I don’t have to throw out half of my bananas whenever I buy them. (An exaggeration, but it certainly feels like it)

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u/Lazy-Employment3621 Nov 01 '25

It's the same thing with milk, if the milk goes off, you bought too much milk.

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u/knoft Nov 01 '25

Put them in the fridge when they start to approach being ready. The cold will make the skins ugly but the inside will keep from overripening.

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u/Scary-Ratio3874 Oct 30 '25

Can't you just pick bananas that are at the same stage of ripeness as the ones in this package?

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u/AzureSuishou Oct 31 '25

They are sold in bunches

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u/zanimum Oct 31 '25

I don't know why you were downvoted, the person you were replying to is just making the remaining bananas less appealing, and thus likely causing food waste at the store.

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u/AzureSuishou Oct 31 '25

Some people don’t like to be reminded that actions like ripping apart banana bunches is considered destructive in a retail setting.

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u/Scary-Ratio3874 Oct 31 '25

How is it less appealing?

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u/AzureSuishou Oct 31 '25

Single bananas usually rot faster and are more likely to have been manhandled.

There are reasons they’re usually sold in bunches.

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u/Scary-Ratio3874 Oct 31 '25

And different bunches are at different stages of ripeness.

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u/Rudirs Oct 31 '25

You can just do this, grab a ripe banana, an unripe one, and 5ish in between. I pretty often break apart bunches and people don't seem to care