MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Steeplejerk]

Machu picchu,the Incas fresh water supply.

[Stanley]

You're both close enough. It's a water course at Chachabamba archaeological site (Machu Picchu National Archaeological Park, Peru) We still aren't sure how they cut stone like that.
Next one?

[Steeplejerk]

Puma Punku in Bolivia is another great mystery

[Stanley]

I'm impressed Tom.....

[Steeplejerk]

I watch a lot of documentaries on telly

[Stanley]

You always were the brain box.

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Stanley]

Well! I thought you would all pile in on this easy one! Perhaps you're waiting for Peter to return from holiday to solve it for you.....

[Gloria]

Not got a clue, perhaps it’s a biscuit or cake being pulled apart?

[Cathy]

Is it connected to Gold?

[Stanley]

Not gold Cathy. Gloria is very close but not a biscuit or cake.....

[Big Kev]

A microscopic image?

[Gloria]

A toffee?

[Cathy]

A Mint sweet

[Stanley]

Kev is right, it is a much magnified image. And again, yes, it's edible but not manufactured.

[Big Kev]

Banana?

[Gloria]

Pomegranate?

[Tizer]

The mouthparts of a snail, called the radula and bearing the teeth used to rasp the food surface.

[Stanley]

Kev has it, it's a cut banana being pulled apart.
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[Tizer]

It's not a cut banana fruit, the cut ends don't look like that. But Kev is right to say `Banana' because it must be the cut ends of a banana plant stem that has just been sliced through.

[Stanley]

You could be right Peter and I have it wrong as to where the cut is. Definitely banana though.... Sorry for cocking up!
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[Stanley]

What is it?

[Tizer]

You could be right Peter and I have it wrong as to where the cut is. Definitely banana though.... Sorry for cocking up!
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No need to say sorry, it made an interesting mystery object. I've done a bit more research and the original, wider view, photo shows it is the cut stem of a growing banana `tree'. It was posted on the Reddit web site years ago but since then it's suffered the fate of so many internet photos - people sent it viral but just said it was a banana!

Is your new object some kind of special shoe horn? It looks the right shape to take a heel.

[Big Kev]

It's a knitting thing.

[Stanley]

Not a shoe horn and Kev is nudging towards it but not knitting. There is a Proper Name for it......