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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[–] buzz86us@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 hours 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).

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 51 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

We need to standardize banana.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

I agree. I say seven inches.

[–] Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

We need, Standard Fruit.

[–] justtobbi@feddit.org 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Ja! Let's create a DIN norm!

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

DIN-B4N4N4

[–] Spider2013@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

How tall are you? 6 and a half bananas

[–] konalt@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

this is how the imperial system was invented

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

We can make it exactly 3.5 Thumb lengths.

[–] HeckGazer@programming.dev 63 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

This one is marketed towards men

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 18 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 105 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours 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...

[–] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Bananas are now officialy a tool for measurement.

[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Always have been

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Its average sized

[–] cheddar@programming.dev 0 points 19 hours ago

In Asia, maybe.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 32 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Wow he would burst my chest cavity! 🤤

[–] FlexxxingOnThePoors@lemmy.world 30 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Americans well use anything but the metric system, lol.

[–] CptEnder@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Actually that banana's kinda big

[–] key@lemmy.keychat.org 7 points 21 hours 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@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Bananas in the US are pretty large though.

[–] bonn2@lemm.ee 14 points 19 hours 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 🤷

[–] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 15 hours 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

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 3 points 9 hours 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.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours 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

[–] Zier@fedia.io 11 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 10 hours ago

Ahhh, a plantain?

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 27 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Zier@fedia.io 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 4 points 14 hours ago

All love, my man.