What in the orphan crushing machine is this shit?!
https://maritime-executive.com/article/bananas-ahoy-as-overboard-containers-wash-ashore
And smell it rot.
You need to leave alone the earthly process of food falling off container ships. It’s nature’s way.
The West Sussex Bananna Party.
No banannation without taxation.

Highly doubt you’ll be prosecuted or even arrested. I could walk into a grocery store and grab a bunch of bananas and walk out right now and nobody would care, they just be like “that was weird”
Those children are criminals that should be punished and locked up! /s
Fuck the bananas
I want the Cocaine washing up on the shores
I honestly feel like cocaine to a large extent is partially responsible for much of the world’s malignant narcissist billionaire evil rulers. And hence, you are not allowed to eat bananas. So maybe the world needs less cocaine, not more.
Naw, we just need equal access to cocaine. Level the playing field with subsidized cocaine I say!
Enrich tap water with cocaine
Universal basic coca
Make Coca-Cola Great Again!
So maybe the world needs less cocaine, not more.
Woh there with your hot take
I prefer the theory of the bourgeois that has to live with his community and therefore has to care compared to wall communities and an apartment in dubai.
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While true (maybe), if I find a brick of coke I’m 100% busting that down into 8balls and getting it gone quick. I know cokeheads suck but I gotta make a buck too and one isn’t that much in the grand scheme of keys.
Tbh we’re just lucky I don’t turn it into an E-40 song before I break it down.
Fuck the bananas
No, that’s also illegal.
Is it? Dang can’t fuck shit in the UK.
This is to keep people safe. Only those that have taken the Banana Self Defense class are certified for consumption of these bananas.
“The guards were on the river bank to make sure the poor didn’t take the fruit from the river, when that was too expensive it was collected in a pile and doused in kerosene. The hogs were burned as well all for the sake of profit” -grapes of wrath
I honestly think about it to this day. We didn’t give milk to the homeless during covid. Farmers dumped it all for profit. We don’t grow food to feed We gro food to make profit.
Great job you figured out capitalism sucks
Came to the comments just to make sure that passage was on top.
this reminds me of the famous quote in the grapes of wrath
The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
I thought of exactly the same thing!
First. As mentioned by MonkderVierte, not fine but a warning.
Second. I’d really think thrice to pick up washed on the shore bananas, or just about anything edible. Basic hygiene to me. Many would disagree with me and say that one can rinse it off. But I don’t know, man. Guess I am a germophobe.
Guess UK government is just trying to protect people from possible health risks. Cause, let’s fucking face it. Tons of people have issues with hygiene. You can’t expect everyone to at the very fucking least rinse these bananas, let alone rinse them well. Also, can you imagine any world government to proudly tell people “There’s bunch of bananas washed up on the shore. Go pick’em up! Free potassium snack!” ?
Sad to see this many of fruit being wasted.
You couldn’t pay me to eat a banana that came from the ocean.
It better be washed at least
You don’t need to rinse the bananas though… You just peel them and throw the peel away, whatever was on the peel does not need to touch anything close to your mouth at all.
I don’t think banana peels are waterproof, and the ocean is full of stuff you don’t want to ingest.
Second. I’d really think thrice to pick up washed on the shore bananas, or just about anything edible. Basic hygiene to me.
What do you think of potatoes, then, which grow in a mixture of soil and manure? Or carrots?
I mean, I peel them and wash them right after. Then I cook them in boiling water or fry on a pan. Not eat raw.
Loads of people wash, peel, and eat raw carrots, though. It’s not unhygienic at all.
Yep. Lots of us do, me included. The only thing is that I peel them first and then wash them thoroughly before eating. I do not wash bananas. But I also do not buy bananas washed up on the shore.
Quite frankly it’s disgusting. That’s why I only eat food that has lots of healthy e numbers, MSG, and added sugar. As God intended.
I wouldn’t eat carrots from the ocean either
What about tuna?
I wouldn’t eat tuna if it washed up on the beach
The beach is a nesting ground of vast biomes of creatures, singled-celled, through to vast arrays of worms, some parasitic, all the way up to burrowing arthropods like sand fleas and their many, many cousins. We don’t usually have problems with any of this stuff when we swim or hang out on the sand because… and I cannot stress this enough, we do not eat raw produce we find in the sand.
Please do not eat raw produce you find in the sand.
Dailymail is not a reputable source.
british government more protective of bananas arriving on shore than they are refugees
bananas have more rights and people in Britain apparently
Daily Mail propaganda worked I guess. They just warned people because they might not be safe to eat. The government never actually said they’d prosecute anyone it was just a warning.
Damn
This government has arresting people for demonstrating against that government’s active support of the mass murdering of children in Gaza, so morally speaking, putting bananas ahead of people (even poor Brits who might actually need those free bananas) is nothing in comparison.
Sometimes I suspect that making sure people suffer is their whole point.
Nah, they were dumb enough to lose them, those bananas are fair game.
Eating beach bananas sounds like a great way to get some kind of weird illness. It’s not like there’s a nearby banana tree that they could have come from. But maybe I’m just too accustomed to grocery stores
I would just assume that through osmosis those bananas ate salty as fuck, plus I have seen the size of the fucking spiders on some of those bananas being shipped here, no fuck you
The tarantulas have usually abandoned the bananas by the time we eat the bananas.
Usually
…
Sometimes as I’m tearing a banana from the bundle I picture the tarantulas that might’ve been crawling all over it, and I wonder if I’m touching the same spot a hairy tarantula has been. I don’t like having those thoughts. So I try not to have those thoughts.
Oh fuck it’s that where tarantulas come from? Bugs are so confusing
So you’re saving buying a big load of bananas isn’t a good way to get a new cuddly spider friend? :(
Im sure they come clean if you wash them vigorously by hand.
I assume the spiders would have died, and now you have delicious, brined cooking bananas!
They addressed that, actually.
True to the spirit of journalistic inquiry, your correspondent can attest that seawater has not degraded the taste of the bananas, with the only threats to health posed by skin slippage and by eating too many of them.
Wonder what all that banana skin soaked up.
Ocean water that everyone swims in perfectly fine
That delicious plastic and sewage and population. It does a body good.
Cocaine
I don’t want to eat the skin
You won’t have to, the edible part of the banana will absorb the skins content.
But it’s got all the vitamins!
Definitely peel it first.
Would you eat a banana out of the toilet, as long as you peeled it first?
Yes, without hesitation, although I’d want to rinse it first to avoid cross-contamination.
Banana picking and shipping as it usually happens isn’t exactly sterile, either. Or the grocery store where everyone is sorting through them. This is also why you should wash anything you don’t peel.
Weird, right? On the one hand - we dont eat banana peels. So, it must be fine, right? But on the other hand, I’d also hesitate to eat a snickers bar washed up on the shore.
I mean if you opened the package and it was dry tho?
But…
The Charter of the Forest declared that people are free to sustain themselves from the land.
This is the sea no?
oh okay, it’s maritime wreckage, and subject to local customs
Bit more nuanced as wreckage and salvaged items are not naturally occuring.
Next thing you’ll tell me the front’s not supposed to fall off.

















