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Review on Amazon: A banana for scale should be to scale https://a.co/d/aAZPaX4

Alt text1 star review by user "Tall Guys Wife" on Amazon of a rubber banana that has the words [for scale] on it.
Picture attached shows rubber banana is smaller than real banana.

Review text reads: "purchased this 'banana for scale, but it's way smaller than an average banana. People on social media demand if you're showing something that you use an average banana for scale. I would never deceive anyone with this ridiculous substitute for an accurate measuring tool."

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[โ€“] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

back in my day, we'd measure things with a REAL banana

[โ€“] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Quexotic@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you for the hope. You can still buy the gros michel, but it's breathtakingly expensive. I'd love to finally try one.

[โ€“] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well then just buy one banana. How much could it cost, $10?

[โ€“] Quexotic@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can only buy them by the crate and their hundreds of dollars and you can pretty much be guaranteed that half of them will spoil during shipment. I may actually go in with a number of other people and purchase an entire crate of them but I'm not really sure I could find enough people that will be willing to pay or split the cost, especially with the knowledge that a bunch of them are probably going to spoil along the way.

Edit: It's $36 for one banana with shipping costs.

$127 for a small box. I don't have that kind of banana money

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