#22

You know that bit where people go on about “every second a baby is born” or whatever, how long do you reckon it takes for a banana?

#25

They call that “the gestation period”

#27

I wonder if we (as a nation) can eat them at exactly the rate that they arrive. We’d have the LITERAL* biting point of bananas.

*literally

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#29

But there was a delivery.

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#30

Because you physically bite the bananas, you see.

#31

This suggests that the United Kingdom consumes 33.33kg of bananas per second. That’d be 2879712kg per day.

An average banana weighs 120g, meaning a daily UK consumption of around 23,997,600 bananas.

I’d therefore suggest that, with wastage and variation, you’re looking at an average of around 24 million bananas in the UK at any one time.

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#34

But surely there are more in the country than just the ones we eat. So we may eat one but we have a bunch of five. Back to the drawing board.

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#36

Yep, but if there was always more than we ate, we’d end up with piles of rotting bananas in the streets. Average number is gonna roughly equal average consumption.

#37

But that is not how many are in the UK right now is it? Is it?

We eat 30millio today and then we have another 60millio rippening and then we have another 80millio overrippenning and rotting

You feel me, chanti?

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#38

We’ve finished today’s bananas, no more bananas until tomorrow!

#39

Who thinks they have had more bananas than me in their life? I have had one every day (more or less) for the past 15 years. (15*350 = 5250) The 10 days less account for christmas when I stop eating fruit.

#40

You probably had quite a few as a baby too, jizz.

#41

Damn. You’re right.

Let’s assume that it’s at least 24 million and go from there.

#42

Not me I’m allergic to the yellow bastards.

(really trying to shoehorn in a gag somewhere about Bunches of Fyffes but failing)

#43

Also at what stage does a banana stop becoming a banana. MMMmmm deep.

#44

I would say between 3 and 4 million

#45

there are apparently about 200,000 shops in britain (of any kind)

#46

I am 15

I’m not

You’re right, but I probably wouldn’t have managed a whole one so difficult to calculate. Will go back to the drawing board

#47

Do you feel like you’re missing out, or are you fairly at peace with your allergy?