The Pre-sliced Banana (An April Fool's Joke)

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1. Pick your banana. This trick will work best if you select a banana that’s ripe with spots.

2. Get a clean needle and thread. Poke a hole in a corner of the banana about an inch down from the top until it just barely goes through the skin.

3. Then slide the needle through the skin layer to the next corner of the banana. Sometimes there are really big gaps between corners. In that case just go in between two corners. You want no more than about 1/2" between pokes.

4. Pull needle with thread through banana skin, leaving a few inches of tail on the string.

5. Poke the needle back through the last hole you made and then pull it through the peel to the next corner (or about 1/2" distance)

6. Repeat the above steps as needed until you have poked the needle all around the banana and your last hole is the very same hole you started with (the lower right picture shows this - it looks like it's not the same, but the banana peel split just a little, which is completely normal).

7. Now take both ends of the string and gently pull until your string comes out. If you've followed the steps correctly, this should slice the banana inside the peel.

8. Repeat the above steps to slice the banana and two or three more locations.

9. Leave the banana for your unsuspecting person to discover. When they peel it they will be amazed that it's already sliced for them!

HAPPY APRIL FOOL'S DAY!

Source: healthyfamilycookin.blogspot.com, inspired by several places on the web