1 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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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Tbf, I'd also be kinda pissed if I bought a meme banana and it wasn't the size of a real banana. You had one job...

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This one is marketed towards men

[–] Cheems 28 points 1 month ago

IT LOOKS LIKE AN AVERAGE SIZED BANANA TO ME. TOO BIG EVEN MAYBE

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (5 children)

We need to standardize banana.

[–] Spider2013 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How tall are you? 6 and a half bananas

[–] konalt 11 points 1 month ago

this is how the imperial system was invented

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ja! Let's create a DIN norm!

[–] ZILtoid1991 6 points 1 month ago

DIN-B4N4N4

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We need, Standard Fruit.

[–] stupidcasey 8 points 1 month ago

We can make it exactly 3.5 Thumb lengths.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I agree. I say seven inches.

[–] FlexxxingOnThePoors 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Americans well use anything but the metric system, lol.

[–] CptEnder 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm surprised more things aren't measured in football pitches

[–] chiliedogg 0 points 1 month ago

We talking real football or the one where you use your feet?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

SLPT: use a banana flavored Runtz candy piece to make your schlong look fucking enormous.

[–] Alwaysnownevernotme 3 points 1 month ago

Wow he would burst my chest cavity! 🤤

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Actually that banana's kinda big

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maybe it is a regional thing? I'm from the US and that is pretty much the size of every banana at my grocery store.

To clarify, by regional I mean that the US disproportionately buys / sells a variety of bananas that is just bigger. Though I'll admit I have not taken the time to google this so 🤷

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

You're thinking too hard, i was just making a penis joke lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Its the same for bananas in Romania, but i know that at least in Egypt the bananas are closer in size to the fake banana

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Agreed. Another review has a picture holding it and it looks like typical banana size. That banana is just a banana of unusual size.

[–] SuperIce 2 points 1 month ago

Bananas in the US are pretty large though.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Its average sized

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's still hope we might get it back someday!

[–] [email protected] 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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

Source https://miamifruit.org

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Americans will argue over the size of bananas instead of using a proper measuring system, smh.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

There be no blasphemy or deception like using a plastic banana rather than whatever random banana they have at your local store.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I have a totally different kind of banana you could use for scale. wink wink

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is only useful if we are measuring small insects or microbes. nudge nudge

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now, now, don't be so self deprecating. Some people are into 'small and adorable'. giggle giggle

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

All love, my man.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ahhh, a plantain?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's a 'firm' yes from me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bananas are now officialy a tool for measurement.

[–] SassyRamen 6 points 1 month ago

Always have been

[–] buzz86us 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel like a.BIC pen is much better for scale

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

But there's a flaw. You've already lost it.

Maybe a different fairly popular but far less likely to be lost pen. How about Lamy Safari (Vista and Al-Star can be used too - same dimensions).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Bananas can be many different shapes, sizes and colors!

Hungry?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It depends what you’re comparing it to. Perhaps someone wants to make something look larger in the photo compared to the mini banana…

What kind of unscrupulous person would do that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm tired of how big bananas are now. Small bananas ftw

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Tbf, I like the smaller ones (I don't need that goddamn much banana I'm eating breakfast not making delicious pudding to dip nillas in). I have a couple bananas hanging around that are probably about the size of the fake one (maybe a bit bigger).