r/NZFood • u/LocationTemporaryy • Sep 10 '26
over this
I bought these yesterday arvo. The outside is still green!
Almost all produce is on the verge of rotting at the supermarkets around me. Tomatoes lasted two days before they started to liquify, avocados were rotten when opened, looked at grapes as a treat and when I observed through the bottom of the punnet- all had mouldy fuzz, smoosh.
What the hell is happening. It all costs so much now and its all mucked. These rotton bananas were $6!! And this is after I had gone through everything to try find a bunch that had a few days in them. They are still green!
As you can see in the second pic, I did salvage 2 bananas worth of my 5 bunch, but if I wanted just two bananas I wouldn’t have bought a bunch ?!? Fury
Anyone else?
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u/smajliiicka Sep 10 '26
I wanted to buy pears and apples and for the second time this year - it's all bruised up, looking like it's been picked off the ground... not even good for baking...
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u/questionerfmnz Sep 10 '26
Exactly same thing happened to this week’s bananas in our house. Looked fine. Half so soft they were almost liquid. Only had them two days.
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u/Content_Bread6652 Sep 10 '26
I noticed this too, perfectly greenish bananas having random black spots for no reason
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u/HomemakerNZ Sep 10 '26
It's just not fair, I've been buying Green and Hard,but inside looks like yours
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u/ethereal_galaxias Sep 10 '26 edited Sep 10 '26
Funny you should post this as I have never had an issue with bananas before, but suddenly this week I bought a bunch that were nice looking and then every one of them was black inside! Not the whole flesh, just when you sliced it, the whole middle was dark black.
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u/LocationTemporaryy Sep 10 '26
Yes! That is exactly what these were like on the inside too, black centre with the bottom half all dark brown.
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u/ethereal_galaxias Sep 10 '26
I wondered if they had been accidentally frozen or something! It was weird.
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u/HomemakerNZ Sep 10 '26
Not accidentally...... supermarkets are doing it, more often than we know. Apples is a prime example, one bite and it's dry and tasteless
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u/goldman459 Sep 10 '26
I've never known any other country where the bananas arrived on the shelves so completely battered whether they're yellow or green.
Is it rough seas or careless forklift operators? You never find one without a single blemish. Not the case in Europe.
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u/springboks Sep 10 '26
I know let's buy fruit from the Philippines and be mad it doesn't work. Hmm kiwi fruit, apple, orange growers of NZ. What're you going to do a pineapple and dragon fruit post next week bruh? Zero sympathy herw.
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u/TotalStatement126 Sep 13 '26
If you don’t have an oven these would be great for pancakes!
Hear your frustration around it’s not what you brought/ expected.
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u/soundscry Sep 10 '26
For a country that boasts about its incredible produce... I have never lived somewhere where it's 50/50 on whether the fruit and veg you buy might be secretly mouldy or rotten. It's insane.
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u/WellingtonSucks Sep 10 '26
You realise New Zealand doesn't grow bananas in any substantial quantity right?
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u/soundscry Sep 10 '26
Oh silly me, I didnt realise. That definitely makes selling rotten food in a supermarket A-Ok.
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u/WellingtonSucks Sep 10 '26
lol at expecting the supermarket to somehow magically know the banana is rotten underneath. 😂
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u/soundscry Sep 10 '26
I've received plenty of grocery orders with fruit and veg coated in visible mould. I don't every order fruit and veg online and go pick through some visibly mouldy food on display. It should be illegal to sell food that could knowingly make people sick, but I guess when people are willing to justify supermarket greed we'll all just have to cope.
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u/WellingtonSucks Sep 10 '26
I've received plenty of grocery orders with fruit and veg coated in visible mould.
Mate that's not what we're talking about, nor what the picture is about. This is about the interior of foodstuffs, not the exterior.
It should be illegal to sell food that could knowingly make people sick
It already is. See the Food Act 2014. You also have rights as a consumer under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 and Fair Trading Act 1986 which let you request a replacement or refund. You should use these if you are receiving mouldy food.
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u/Illustrious_Chain_46 Sep 10 '26
You could just cut that part off?
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u/LocationTemporaryy Sep 10 '26
They were dark brown and mush on all sides and I salvaged what I could (picture 2) but that is not the point.
We shouldn’t have to just cut parts of of food that appears fine at time of purchase, only to be beyond expiration once opened.
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u/sirdrewpalot Sep 10 '26
Fruit has seasons they are meant to ripen, outside of that you’re buying frozen or refrigerated fruit which stuffs up the ripening.
Also that was a waste, why not make a smoothie or freeze them for baking later?