FixorFish wrote:
The "bananas on the boat" thing:
When sailing from the "New World", european sailors started the "bananas are bad luck" idiocy, because they were too stupid to check the banana bunches for spiders before loading in the hull. Depending on the voyage length, the spiders inevitably crawled out and some being poisonous were responsible for some sailor deaths while underway. Often the spider was simply a tarantula, surely scary to find crawling around on a boat, but only a few species are capable of killing a human.....their venom is intended for lizards and birds, etc., their normal prey.
Unless you are planning on buying/bringing an entire "five foot, six foot, seven foot bunch !" (thanks, Mr. Belafonte), or you are simply "Mr. Oblivious", you needn't further this centuries-old B.S.
Simply an "old sailors tale"....much like its cousin, the "old wives tale".
Besides.... bananas are an excellent healthy snack, in addition to having a very environmentally-safe "packaging".
They're also an excellent source of potassium, a known leg-cramp preventative.
Mayhaps I could just go ahead and disturb a wider range of "naysayers" by making fresh banana daiquiris on my pontoon boat (yes, they make a 12v blender).... you can refer to me as "that dastardly Oregonian Capt. Morgan" !
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Thanks, interesting. I was in the produce section of Raleys looking through banana bunches and my wife found a smallish tarantula type spider under a bunch, me being the self proclaimed identifier I had to see it, I dropped the bunch too fast to think about squishing it, but went and got the produce guy who had to carefully go through them to find it. From what we could tell looking at pictures to identify it this was not the kind of spider you wanted to get bit by...as I recall it had the stripes on the legs.