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Olly398-
You know the little nub at the 'end' of the banana, the slightly hard bit? You essentially pick that out when you open from the 'other' end. That said I normally eat all of that so it was never a big thing for me. There was also some talk about not squashing the banana as much (I'd not noticed any difference) and using the stalk as a handle to hold it but again I didn't see the advantage really as the rest of the banana provides a convenient receptacle.
olaf_von_pokemon
Only a month late but I had a collague whose family were Vietnamese who tried to convince me to eat it from the 'wrong' end as that was what they had always done. There were a lot of benefits (well one as far as I could see) but it wasn't really worth changing. I think it's interesting that differnt cultures approach eating foods in different ways and I'm sure if I were that interested I'd study anthropology to seek an answer for why but I'm a lazy twat and am content to know that posh people eat hot dogs with a knife an fork and I don't and leave it at that.
Weird that it was only after eating bananas for around 30 years that I became aware of a different way of doing it though.