Comments on: People collect the darndest stuff – Part 1: Fruit & Veggie stickers

By: ROBINSON PEREIRA

ROBINSON PEREIRA — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:38:35 +0000

hello my name is robinson I HAVE COLLECTIONS THE STIKERS OF BANANA I LIVE IN ECUADOR

By: Janel

Janel — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:57:57 +0000

This post made me think of a tradition the choirs at my high school had. The day after the first choir concert of the year was National Banana Sticker Day. So, any and all choir members would go to Stop-and-Shop (a local grocery store), find all the banana stickers they could, put them all on one banana, and then buy it. Then everybody wore one the next day.

This tradition started the first year the school opened in 1994, and apparently it’s still going strong, since my youngest brother participated in it last month. But heaven help you if you don’t go to Stop-and-Shop. My a different younger brother’s group went to Wal-Mart, and they have gone down in history as the tradition breakers.

By: tpal

tpal — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:22:20 +0000

I had a guy that worked for me for years that used to eat a lot of fruit and put the stickers on his computer monitor. When he retired, the monitor had so many stickers on it, we just threw it out. It wasn’t worth the work it would have taken to clean it up to give to someone else.

By: lmborgmeyer

lmborgmeyer — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:20:25 +0000

I have a small fruit sticker collection at work. (100-125 stickers in my cubicle) Some of my co-workers add stickers to my collection. It doesn’t serve any real purpose other than something to do, but I like to look the different types of stickers. I didn’t know that people actually took fruit sticker collection so seriously.

By: -@^@-

-@^@- — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:58:38 +0000

Hey! No mocking the afflicted. I’ve been collecting fruit stickers for a couple of years now, and I can’t say my collection is quite up to the standards of those mentioned in the article, it’s still quite a respectable piece of obsessive-compulsive behaviour. ;) I mainly concentrate on apple and banana stickers, with some other fruits thrown in for good measure. Banana stickers are probably my favourite, since they’re usually quite large and colourful – it makes them very satisfying to collect!

By: jenbe

jenbe — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:06:28 +0000

My toddler asks for stickers at the cash register at the grocery store. He frequently gets produce stickers, and has a nice collection of them on his jacket and car seat. Perhaps this is how it starts.

By: kdub

kdub — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:23:40 +0000

Recently I took a sticker off a pear and stuck it on the side of the sink while I washed the pear, planning to remove it and throw it away later. I forgot about it, and discovered that night (guess how) that the cat ate the sticker. On purpose!

By: Leslie Booher

Leslie Booher — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:20:03 +0000

I’ve always thought that fruit stickers were too good to throw away and not good enough to save. In one house we lived in, our son and I filled a whole kitchen cabinet door with banana stickers over the course of five years or so. I also put the static cling stickers off of sunglasses on my glove compartment door in the car.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:50:21 +0000

Quick followup to my above comment – if anyone out there can posit a theory as to why that particular tidbit was not only still in my brain two years after the fact, but also apparently very nicely indexed so as to make it leap to the front upon reading this post, please advise.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:46:28 +0000

Actually, it might be a good time to invest in a collection of these. There were rumblings a couple of years back about laser-tattooing the information directly onto the fruit/veggie. To quote straight from the NYT:

…”But it was designed with the consumer in mind: laser coding could mean the end of those tiny stubborn stickers that have to be picked, scraped or yanked off produce.”

The whole article is still online at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/dining/19fruit.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=3a2eb3f2f127653a&ex=1279425600&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss