You were lucky. They could have been really nasty.

After a recent SIN-LAX flight, they seemed to send every passenger from our plane to secondary agricultural screening which meant standing in line for over an hour to have everything Xrayed. That was the day I finally decided to apply for GE even though my home airport doesn't yet have GE kiosks.

I do not remember Monty Python and the banana, but there was a thread on FT about the FA who stole a banana from the DL FC snack basket. Search for banana bandit.