What are the parts of the banana fruit called?
I am glad to know that someone else in the world wonders what “the end opposite the stem” of a banana is called. Your description and explanation is perfect. I just started eating bananas for health, but my interest came years ago. A co-worker always peeled the banana holding the stem, pinching the other end and peeling it down toward the stem. I always peeled it the other way, using the stem as a peeling lever. His rational was, “look at the monkeys, they hold it by the stem and peel it down from the other end, they know more about bananas than we do, so they (I) must be right. I peel it that way now, which causes me to grab hold of that butt and pinch off the spike and leave it with the peel. Not all “banana butts” are equal. Let’s call them “Banana Butts” until we get the proper word. If you find out what it is called, let me know. I have learned a lot about the herb banana and their pseudostem, but not the Banana Butt. Oh, we should take a survey about which direction people and mo
