Can you eat the skin of a McBanana?

Usually my thumb nail is successful in piercing the top of a banana to peel it. But today, I took one of the scary bananas from the fruit bowl and I couldn't even open it. I had to open it coccoon-style. And in order to eat the lower half, I had to committ the act of violently tearing it apart.

So I then pondered on whether I could have just eaten the whole thing, without doing all this peeling nonsense. I did some research and found that apparently it's easier to open a banana when you pinch the non-stalk end which will make the top end split. I also found that it's a bad idea to eat the skin of a banana because of the pesticides that are probably on it.

My illustration of what apparently happens when you pinch a banana's bum

All that aside, I decided to try some skin for myself anyway. It's slightly tough to bite a peice off, and as soon as you start chewing there's a dry and furry feeling in the mouth. After it's nearly all broken down, you get a feeling of impending regurgitation. The taste is quite strong and I could not swallow it, although some of it was inevitably swallowed.

Lesson of the day: Don't eat banana skin; you'll get pregnant, and die.

postscript: I thought it would be noteworthy to mention that I invented bananas.