Banana

If you live in a northern climate, you have to rely on a very complicated and expensive delivery system that will supply you with this fruit that can only be grown in the tropics. And the only way to keep it economical is to create an economy where food prices are artificially kept low because first world countries systematically suppress developing countries that grow bananas into becoming stable economies that would actually provide better wages for farmers and workers who would raise the price of bananas.

We have cheap bananas because we don't mind living in a world where we abuse farmers and workers to work for pennies to supply us in the first world with cheap bananas.

So they can feed disease too? Is there anything bananas can't do?

That’s only the Cavendish, there are other varieties of banana. I was recently in Hawai’i and got to try an Apple Banana that had been grown there.

In Southeast Asia we have lots of banana varieties that we regularly eat.

Picked by slaves.

just like the previous, gros michael, the cavendish is susceptible to a fungal/bacterial disease. Wild type are pratically resistant, or a different species. but they often have that unslightly seeds.

also WATERMelons, figs, oranges.

all the seeded varieties can hybridize, or can cross pollinate with other plants. oranges, often have to use the wild "trifoliate" orange to grow better by grafting onto it. the trifoliate is pretty unique as its very hardy and cold tolerant, also possess defensive spines.

thousands

Millions at least

Do the 16p and 14p bananas taste better than the 13p bananas?

while that looks dumb, keeping them separate helps them last longer.

Decomposes, no problrm. Self unplugging, if you will.

Throw it on the ground as a trap for the one walking behind you

You can eat it. Proof: me.

You can absolutely eat banana peels, cooked or raw. They're full of fiber, antioxidants, all your basic fruit goodness. I don't eat them, but I understand the people who do.

Just throw it behind your kart to slow down your opponents

The silver lining is that it's biodegradable. And good as compost

also, banana strings

https://www.iflscience.com/doctors-warn-men-not-to-masturbate-with-banana-peels-and-men-are-not-happy-54800

The trick is to get the green/light green bananas as they begin to ripen. Buying yellow to slightly darker yellow bananas will shorten their shelf life tremendously.

I'm not a fan of freezing them as they'll still continue to ripen. Your best case scenario if you start seeing them browning out is to make some banana bread or mix it in cupcake/cake mix.

Or stick it up your butt.

There are SO MANY bananas, but most people have only eaten the Cavendish. Awhile back, I got a box of assorted bananas from a farm that specializes in growing unusual fruit. I ate about twenty pounds of bananas in three weeks. So many fucking nanners spread across my entire kitchen countertop for weeks, ripening in stages.

My life has been a lie. Yours too. We've all been hoodwinked. We are getting fucked, and not in the good way, because Cavendish is a straight up garbage fruit. There are tiny tart toothsome Thai bananas, chunky Cuban, alluring Apple, beauteous burro, pleasurably plump Pisang, orally outstanding orinoco, mouthwatering Mysore, and the gustatorily magnificent Gros Michel, the OG mass production bananer, which was replaced by Cavendish in a mycological midlife crisis (I'm drunk and if I was a dinosaur, I'd be a tiny tenacious thesaurus tenuisi). Plus more. So many more. Fucking. Bananas.

They all taste like bananas, but each is a little different, some more than others, but they all had more taste that those Cavendish fuckers. So get fucked Chiquita, Dole, and Del Monte. My banana bread sucks because of y'all.

...again.

Isn't monoculture a plantation where you grow only one crop? At least in my language it is. But bananas are a genetic clone of their mother plant. That means all plants of one cultivar are n-tuplets, if I remember correctly.

Just like rubber trees.

That's the way I like it

They're completely safe what comes to Potassium-40 radioactivity! You need to eat a massive amount of them to even reach the point where you experience radiation sickness. Actually, you might experience excessive potassium toxicity levels first. (Or you might not! Human bodies are equipped to get rid of excess potassium.) Or, you know, you might experience the problems of stuffing too much stuff down your gullet. There's only so much stuff you can fit in your stomach at one time.

So are you.

That's the good spice.

Your mum's radioactive

That isn’t bananas fault though.

That old version "Gros Michel" is what artificial banana flavour is based on. Bananas used to taste like that. The newer "Cavendish" variety is firmer and lasts longer, but doesn't have the same flavour. It seems like both are being wiped out by disease though, yay monoculture.

Cavendish seem to be especially vulnerable because they're all clones. They don't produce viable seeds, so they're grafted to new plants.

ooh so that's what that is

i heard an old man mysteriously whisper "enjoy your bananas while they still exist, young person" to me at the supermarket a while ago and i didn't know what they were talking about but they sounded very serious so i didn't doubt them.

History of everything you can plant under a society that puts profit over people's life

It's just a standard fruit. Nothing to see here.

A couple of badly placed cyclones can wreck banana fields and make bananas expensive for a few years.

Depending on where you live, there's quite a few varieties available on the market

Not here around the world, maybe in your banana republic.

We have atleast 10 varities in our country.

RIP Gros Michel 😢

number 1 in sales of bananas in the country

Why do you know that data

Well.

We wont have bananas that taste any good. The ones we eat are selectively bred to become seedless, and are thereby infertile, and must be cloned to be propagated.

The species would still exist, but we'd have to start over with developing a plant that produces something edible.

One epidemic and we won’t have bananas anymore.

Only for a few countries ;) There's still a lot of banana varieties eaten around the world.

There are a lot of types though. Walmart may not have them, but my little 4 meter by 3 meter patch has several varieties and produces enough bananas for about 4 families.

So someone will still have bananas.

wtf they're like 50¢/lb here

Exactly. The post calls them being cheap a good thing, but when you know about the slave wages, idk if them being this cheap is that much of a positive.

A lot of people just know that one song from the Beetlejuice movie, but it's about the workers in banana plantations:
"Come Mr. tally man! Tally me banana.
Daylight come and me wanna go home."

and is demeaning to those who work hard to enable this privilege for us.

For real! Keeping countries colonised in this day and age is hard work

I had a brazillian co-worker that brought in "real bananas" and it was a night and day difference. way more flavour.

I'm with you! The texture is a horror.

I can’t stand bananas. Taste or texture. I can do artificial banana flavor but anything with real bananas is gross. I wish I liked them because they’re inexpensive and generally nutritious.

Have you tried fresh banana picked a minute ago ? the small savoury kind (about 10cm long), or the red creamy kind ? the banana world is wide

I completely agree. I revisit them every year or two to see if my tastes have changed, but I still gag when somebody peels a banana anywhere near me. It’s an automatic involuntary reaction. They are the only food I can think of that give me an immediate gag relfex.

For example, I can be sitting at one end of a train, and I can tell when someone on the opposite side of the train starts eating a banana. I have to put my face in my shirt to stop myself from puking. I wish I liked them, they’re so freaking healthy, but nope can’t do it.

The above user is a cat

That “little brown tip” is called the bananus.

Bananas are acoustic guitars.

Hey, what do you have against little brown tips?

🤔 I'm skeptical that it was just the banana and peanut butter that did it.

It was not the banana and peanut butter, lol.

A great example of correlation and causation.

This claim is very dumb... So are Americans.

Mmmmmm, forbidden penis.
Btw, you spelt good incorrectly.

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I don't know what the deal is with people who say that. They're good for several days, and they even have a very convenient method for showing you whether they're good or not. You don't really need bananas to last more than a few days, because by then, they're all eaten.

I met someone that likes it a little green and not soft. We don't talk anymore. /S

This is so true, it's such a small window of being perfect. Meanwhile oranges are just chilling.

The atheist’s nightmare! If they weren’t genetically engineered, that is.

The smarmy arrogant ignorance dripping from that video is both hilarious and enraging.

My lord I remember laughing my ass off at that video years ago haha

I came here to see if someone had already posted this. I wasn't disappointed.

It's also not the first time it's happened to bananas. You know how banana candy tastes so different to the real thing. That's how the previous commercial strain used to taste before it was nearly exticted by disease.