You know there's nothing wrong with the bruised part of the banana and that it's safe to eat, but for some reason you just can't bring yourself to eat it. amirite?

+316 You know there's nothing wrong with the bruised part of the banana and that it's safe to eat, but for some reason you just can't bring yourself to eat it. amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's for the same reason we don't eat insects even though many of them are safe to eat. They're yucky.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah but it's such a weird phenomenon... It doesn't make much sense.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I've never found anything weird about "it looks yucky, don't eat it". In fact if our ancestors hadn't lived by that same rule, we might not be here today!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's such a strong feeling, though, that it's reached things that aren't even mildly harmless. Asymmetrical fruits are repulsive to most humans. And a few insects are actually good for your health, even some we see everyday. A lot of survival instincts are pretty much useless now so I don't find much use to paying attention to them. Well I mean, if I'm falling over, I'll try to stop myself but things like shyness and generic fears (darkness, for example) are really useless to us now. But I guess that's why we have culture, so we can exclude the things we don't need and replace them with the ones we do need.

by Anonymous 12 years ago