Comment on Banana

Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• XiELEd@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  wtf they’re like 50¢/lb here

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• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • XiELEd@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We wont have bananas that taste any good.
    Cavendish bananas aren’t the only varieties of bananas that taste good. For example Lakatan and Latundan taste good raw. It’s just they aren’t hardy enough for long-term storage and export.

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    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s just that most of the time they aren’t feasible for export.

      I didn’t know that.

      Maybe it would be more accurate to say we won’t have an edible banana that is suitable for large-scale industrial production.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would love to try two different bananas I have only ever read about:

    • The one that supposedly tastes like vanilla pudding

    • The one that no longer exists where banana flavoured candy derives its flavor from.

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    • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The one that no longer exists where banana flavoured candy derives its flavor from.

      That’s actually a myth. See Wikipedia.

      The Gros Michel has a higher concentration of isoamyl acetate, the ester commonly used for “banana” food flavoring, than the Cavendish.[12] This higher concentration is responsible for the myth that banana flavoring was based on the Gros Michel, but artificial banana flavor was not based on any specific cultivar.

      Here’s a longer piece on just that subject.

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• notnotmike@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  number 1 in sales of bananas in the country

  Why do you know that data

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because I worked there, in the department that handled bananas.

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wow, we have Banana Man here

      (I skimmed your profile and I’m 90% sure you’re male)

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Literally a professional banana handler.

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