Banana in a bag

December 21st, 2009 by David Leave a reply »

Banana in a bag

My local supermarket sells single bananas, nicely wrapped up in plastic packaging. This banana is labelled “プレシャス” (Precious). It would want to be precious given the extra effort to wrap it this luxuriously (and wastefully).

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What’s with the all the plastic packaging?? I went to my local grocery shop on my way home tonight, and patriotically grabbed some Aussie Beef for dinner. ...

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djwilson25 says:

Monday, 21 December 2009 at 2:55 pm

New post at Mechakucha: Banana in a bag http://bit.ly/7A1cof

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Chris Round says:

Thursday, 14 January 2010 at 6:22 pm

Good to see an Aussie company doing some good for the environment!

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