Slipping on the banana peel, now let's unpack that

Our supermarkets seem determined to prove the adage that life is stranger than fiction, or at least more absurd.

Bananas in nature's packaging.

Here I was, planning to write about recycling and casting about for the perfect metaphor to encapsulate our warped attitude to waste.

Enter Woolworths and the case of the pre-packed bananas. A Reddit user posted a photo of bananas in plastic packaging at a local Woolies, the thread went viral and the media followed up.

A Woolworths spokeswoman defended the packaging, saying customers preferred it and anyway it only happened in Queensland.

Let’s, er, unpack that for a moment.

Read the comment by Caitlin Fitzsimmons in The Age - “Slipping on the banana peel, now let's unpack that.”