Trouble over Bridgwater

[venta]

Imagine, if you will, that you are eating a half-coated chocolate biscuit. Maybe it's a digestive, maybe it's a hobnob. Maybe it's a vegan, gluten-free biccie with carob coating if that sounds more like your thing. Anyway, imagine you are eating a biscuit with some form of chocolate-esque coating on exactly one side.

You're thinking of it?

OK.

[Poll #1966494]

Thank you. This poll brought to you following a traumatic outbreak of biscuit-eating-related horror in my household.

Comments

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

I'm left feeling like a faithless, flibtertigibbet flip-flopping fence-sitter now. I go both ways. Sometimes in the course of the same biscuit. If the chocolate starts melting on to my fingers, I'll put the chocolate on top; if it starts sprinkling lots of crumbs I'll put the chocolate on the bottom. But otherwise I flip them around with abandon. I'll even alternate from one bite to the next. This must horrify partisans of either approach. I shall try to be more considerate in future.

At the risk of starting another holy war: What about bananas?

Most people open them at the sticky-out bit end (where they originally attached to the tree), but I open them at the flatter black-bit/starfish end (where the flower was), which I call "the monkey end", having been convinced by a YouTube video of monkeys opening bananas from that end and my own personal experimentation. On closer watching, though (they are very fast at it), the non-human primate approach seems much more to split the skin than to peel it, and you can find evidence of monkeys sometimes starting from nearer the stalk end too.

After witnessing distressing parental disagreements on this topic, my kids, in a spirit of compromise and/or cussedness, invented a third approach: cut them in half with a knife, and peel them from the middle. This, I was forced to concede, was an unequivocally human way of opening a banana.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah, I remember your blogging about eating bananas from the middle. I too am the child of mixed-endian parents. I resolved this conflict by failing to notice until a few years ago that my dad was monkey-endian. I'm usually a stalk opener, but try the other end if the stalk resists.

[lnr]

I,ve occasionally tried the monkey-end approach, having been told it is better, but nearly always end up with squished bits of banana, whereas a thumbnail in the stalk end nearly always opens it with no issues for me. I like the middle-endian approach though.