Okay, so this might be a weird subject to start my new home selling/buying blog, but here goes. I recently included some household tips in my monthly newsletter that I send monthly to clients, past clients, friends, family and well, anyone I think might possibly read the darn thing.
This tip said: Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected, they ripen faster. This was intriguing to me as I would prefer my bananas to stay at the slightly green-around-the-edge phase until I have eaten them all up. I included this tip with all the confidence that "if information comes to me in an email, it must be true". Afterward, I realized I had a bunch of bananas in my own kitchen, so I went and pulled off one banana to see if it would ripen at same rate as the remaining bunch. After 3 days, all the bananas looked exactly the same.
Okay, well maybe I didn't do the experience correctly since I didn't take them apart right when I got them home from the store. So, with the next batch of bananas, I immediately picked one off (after taking my first photo of course) and began my experiment anew. I took pictures after three days to see how the ripening of the bananas was progressing.
Hmmmmmm, they ripened at EXACTLY the same rate. I now know that I can't always believe every thing I get via email. And NO I have not fallen for the million dollars in a bank account in Ethopia thing either.
What harm can passing along bogus information about bananas do? Not much, I agree. But I just wanted all the world to know (or at least my Newsletter followers) that if I pass along incorrect information, I promise to correct it.
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