What do you mean zero cleanup? Now I have to carry around a banana peel all day. All hail apples (yes, I eat the core).
Banana
Submitted 5 months ago by mmmm@sopuli.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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stevedice@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 5 months ago
I eat the core too! There’s nowt wrong with eating the core
CyberTailor@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It contains cyanides, so if you eat too many apples this way, expect headache
loldog191@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
me too! but this one time in high school calculus, my classmate beside me ate the core and put the seeds and stem on a napkin, like i usually did. but then he proceeded to pour them all into his hand and SWALLOW IT IN ONE BIG GULP, and ngl it really pissed me off for some reason. after that, i preferred eating oranges.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
They tend to go extinct every so often and need a different variety to replace them.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Is there concern about the cavendish?
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Yes. Cavendish is in trouble.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I could be just parroting a myth, but aren’t they all genetic clones? So anything that evolves to attack one has evolved to attack all, potentially quickly wiping out just about all of them. And I think this happened with the banana we used before this one so now they’re rare and super expensive.
Through standardizing the banana, we’ve removed biodiversity.
drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Look up the history of the banana trade.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Banana smell is so powerful if you leave a banana in the fridge over night any non protected food will taste like a banana
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
What if I hire a bodyguard for the banana?
ygurin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A feature not a bug
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I like how the person is placing a banana to show scale/size.
curiousaur@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Its almost as good as potato!
mmmm@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
As much as I love potatoes and that they came from this little corner in the world, unlike bananas they have to be cleaned up. I know this because my father grew potatoes all of his life. Alas bananas won in that aspect.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 5 months ago
And cooked.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Check mate!
-Kirk Cameron
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 months ago
1 bad thing of the disease that decimates the crops
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 months ago
on a monocrop, of a sterile clone that is. oranges are similar and equally susceptible. if they arnt grafted on a trifoliate orange rootstock(the trifoliate has the benefit of being a wild type orange which is very cold hardy and disease resistant, also posses the spines on thier leaves of ancestral oranges/citrus, the trifoliate is usually not very edible, because they are very bitter)
BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Bad thing: banana Republic. Other than that… 100% legit.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
constipation
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Bananas are rich in fiber.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
We’re both right.
More ripe = better
Less ripe = butt-plug
bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 5 months ago
I mean it’s pretty inefficient to pack up due to their weird shape i bet that > 20% of the box volume in which they are shipped in is just empty space.
nilzen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The monopoly that supplies most bananas to the “western” world has long been known to be a murderous corrupt corp? That’s the one major drawback to that chewy sweet banana fiber.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
That isn’t bananas fault though.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
yeah guys im not a part of that whole movement
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Easy. The taste and the texture. Awful.
hraegsvelmir@ani.social 5 months ago
The taste isn’t that bad, but on its own, I’d give the common yellow bananas a “Meh, but not worth that texture” for taste. I’m actually fine with them in other foods, like, I can eat illness-inducing quantities of banana bread. It’s just that the most commonly sold bananas have a texture that in other fruits would probably indicate it’s rotten. I’ve tried giving them another chance several times, but as soon as I take a bite, it makes me start gagging.
I’ve found the odd variety here and there that were actually better in both regards, though. I remember the grocery store briefly had these little red bananas, about half the size of a yellow one, and I tried it on a whim. Those actually tasted good, and the fruit was firm enough to seem like it was something a person was actually meant to eat.
I assume the common, yellow bananas are just bred to be big, produce lots of fruit and have a consistent flavor, even if it’s not a very good one compared to other bananas.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, I’m with you on that. I will eat them in stuff, like bread.
tengkuizdihar@programming.dev 5 months ago
i think you should go and see a doctor, banana tasted wonderful
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 5 months ago
They make a decent tea bread, but the fruit itself is awful.
rakete@feddit.org 5 months ago
It’s radioaktiv
Jax@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Honeybee alarm pheromone smells exactly like bananas.
If you’re a beekeeper you either already know about it or can test it. Just make sure you’re in a bee suit, they will attack you.
bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 5 months ago
I learned this the hard way lol, mangoes also fo that.
ranzispa@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Also you harvest them every two weeks. Want to sell them already? Just stick them under a plastic carp for a couple of days and they’ll be ripe and yellow.
The bad part is loading trucks of bananas is hard work, those things are heavy.
janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 5 months ago
will any plastic fish work or is it necessary to have a plastic carp?
ranzispa@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Carp for best results, may be substituted with salmon or tuna but do not expect the same quality.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 5 months ago
The bad part is loading trucks of bananas is hard work, those things are heavy.
The worst part is when daylight come and me wan’ go home but the tally man won’t tally me banana.
Magnus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
You can shove them up your arse…also a great benefit.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I have some bad news about bananas. The current strain we use as food is going extinct as the banana trees are ill and dying out. Luckily we’re already changing a different strain to be ready for consumption (making them bigger and without seeds because yes, wild bananas are full of seeds).
Also cocoa plants are ill and dying and we don’t have a different strain. So some time in the future we will be without chocolate.
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 5 months ago
NO CHOCOLATE??? I can’t bear the thought of no chocolate
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 months ago
or using different species, like blue or red ones instead. wild ones have huge seeds.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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.
faultyproboscus@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I have had Gros Michel bananas. They do not taste like banana candy, although weirdly they do smell like the candy much more strongly than the Cavendish.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 5 months ago
Big mike! Or gros Michel. Whichever you prefer to call it.
faultyproboscus@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
The replacement for the Cavendish is already being sold commercially in Australia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfinger_banana
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Bananas have seeds? 😳
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Like the other replies say, wild ones do. But the ones we eat used to have them too, but we did the same magic on them as we did on wolves by creating pugs. They used to be small and so full of seeds there was barily any eatable parts.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Wild bananas, yes.
The ones you eat are a perfect example of a genetically modified plant - cultivated specifically for human consumption.
Scavenger_Solardaddy@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Gremour@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well, every natural plant have seeds. They need to reproduce. Those without seeds go extinct in one generation.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I have a sudden inspiration for a new gmo food.
ranzispa@mander.xyz 5 months ago
People are working on that already. Did not work until now as far as I know.
This is a problem that has been known for a while.
lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 5 months ago
DNS@discuss.online 5 months ago
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.
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
The brown bananas are still good 😏 more sweet and some alc 👌🏻
kossa@feddit.org 5 months ago
Banana milkshake is where all the dark bananas go for me.
anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
yuck, banana bread and cupcake are both so full of added wheat and sugar that the product no longer counts as whole fruit.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Fun fact: The banana was actually a significant part of the industrial revolution. This was because coal miners could eat it without needing to wash their hands.
orioler25@lemmy.world 5 months ago
History of banana and why it’s cheap.
AsyncTheYeen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
History of everything you can plant under a society that puts profit over people’s life
orioler25@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Jesus Christ you people need to read more history.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
It’s just a standard fruit. Nothing to see here.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Bananas make my tummy hurt.
TheCynicalSaint@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
They give me a weird mouth feel, kinda tingling and burning.
TheTurner@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
They do that to me as well.
I’m allergic to fruits in the Sapindaceae family too.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Not sure what all is included in that but I am slightly allergic to some other fruits as well, they just make my ears itchy though, not upset stomach like bananas do.
lukaro@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Bananas and coffee don’t mix, coffee is life so therefore no bananas for me.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ll be honest, coffee and banana is my morning routine
tino@lemmy.world 5 months ago
one bad thing: chlordecone
attinio@feddit.it 5 months ago
Don’t they cost, like, 10 dollars a piece?
bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 5 months ago
Thats insane 😂
KarlHungus42@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sounds like you need to go see a star war
tamal3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I mean, they should, but because of what amounts to basically slave labor, they don’t cost near that much in the US. That’s the big evil of bananas these days. I love them, but I don’t buy them.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I pay 1€ for a french banana in mainland France
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
these days
No, this is always been the case with bananas. There’s a reason why we have the term banana republic. Literally every banana ever bought by an American has been drenched in blood.
There are more involved videos on the subject but this is the shortest and most concise that I could find.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The massive amounts of pesticides they spray on the banana plantations is pretty bad.
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 5 months ago
Ray Comfort: DID SOMEONE SAY BUNANUHR?!
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I strongly dislike their taste and am allergic to them, but yeah that are individual problems. Also… why is high kalium so important?
kameecoding@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Potato and cauliflower are both higher in potassium btw
Potato is a real superfood
kameecoding@lemmy.world 5 months ago
One bad thing: it’s all just clones so now it’s extremely vulnerable to one kind of fungus, much like the cavendish banana it faces near extinction
Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
If you eat too many its hemorrhoid time.