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Banana
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rakete@feddit.org 58 minutes ago
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 47 minutes ago
Easy. The taste and the texture. Awful.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 hour 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.
lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
DNS@discuss.online 2 hours 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.
anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
yuck, banana bread and cupcake are both so full of added wheat and sugar that the product no longer counts as whole fruit.
orioler25@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
History of banana and why it’s cheap.
AsyncTheYeen@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
History of everything you can plant under a society that puts profit over people’s life
orioler25@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Jesus Christ you people need to read more history.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
It’s just a standard fruit. Nothing to see here.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours 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.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 19 minutes 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.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 4 minutes ago
Big mike! Or gros Michel. Whichever you prefer to call it.
faultyproboscus@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
The replacement for the Cavendish is already being sold commercially in Australia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfinger_banana
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
Bananas have seeds? 😳
Scavenger_Solardaddy@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
Wild bananas, yes.
The ones you eat are a perfect example of a genetically modified plant - cultivated specifically for human consumption.
Gremour@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Well, every natural plant have seeds. They need to reproduce. Those without seeds go extinct in one generation.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I have a sudden inspiration for a new gmo food.
ranzispa@mander.xyz 2 hours 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.
ranzispa@mander.xyz 2 hours 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.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 1 hour 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.
janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
will any plastic fish work or is it necessary to have a plastic carp?
ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 hour ago
Carp for best results, may be substituted with salmon or tuna but do not expect the same quality.
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
One single plant, cloned thousands of times. Easily devastated by disease.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
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.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
And just to rub salt into the wound, someone created a clothing store named after the political corruption imposed on those countries to accomplish this: Banana Republic.
I can’t think of what an equivalent would be in terms of offensive marketing, Starving Irish brand potatoes? A Saudi demolition company named after September 11th? A clothing store inspired by antebellum southern US clothes? I guess some companies still use imagery of indigenous people for tobacco products. That seems like it’s in the same vein.
Generally, I try to focus on how beautiful life can be, but damn if there isn’t a crowd trying to make it ugly for others.
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 21 hours ago
This is why bananas are cheaper in the UK than in Brazil
nexguy@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
So they can feed disease too? Is there anything bananas can’t do?
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Rebound from a viral pandemic, RIP Gros Michel
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
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.
XiELEd@piefed.social 20 hours ago
In Southeast Asia we have lots of banana varieties that we regularly eat.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Picked by slaves.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
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.
attinio@feddit.it 10 hours ago
Don’t they cost, like, 10 dollars a piece?
KarlHungus42@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Sounds like you need to go see a star war
tamal3@lemmy.world 8 hours 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.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 7 hours 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.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I pay 1€ for a french banana in mainland France
Randelung@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
There’s always bananas in the money stand.
jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
Not when you haven’t got a complete moron at the helm slapping tariffs on everything he can think of. Here’s an example from a first world country (78p if you cba to click): groceries.morrisons.com/products/…/115455355
Hexarei@beehaw.org 7 hours ago
I think the comment you’re replying to was a reference to The Office, a la “It’s one banana, what could it cost, $10?”
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 4 hours 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.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 10 hours 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
reddit_sux@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Not here around the world, maybe in your banana republic.
We have atleast 10 varities in our country.
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 4 hours ago
half of those plaintaines?
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Depending on where you live, there’s quite a few varieties available on the market
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
My local Acme carried red bananas for a while. They are fucking delicious, taste more like a banana custard than a regular yellow banana. They’re also a bit smaller so less of a commitment to carbo-loading when you peel one. I wouldn’t mind at all if they became the new standard banana, even if it would kind of ruin Mario Kart.
Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Soon we’ll all be able to grow bananas.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
RIP Gros Michel 😢
RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Time for that ×3 mult!
rbn@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
kungen@feddit.nu 18 hours ago
Do the 16p and 14p bananas taste better than the 13p bananas?
rbn@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
Oh, these aren’t meant to be eaten. They’re ‘for scale’ bananas and the price is based on manufacturing accuracy.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 18 hours ago
It’s weight-based.
crazycraw@crazypeople.online 21 hours ago
while that looks dumb, keeping them separate helps them last longer.
Trex202@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
But they don’t breathe under the plastic, accelerating the ripening
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
No flared base
Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Decomposes, no problrm. Self unplugging, if you will.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Based and “no need for flared base”-pilled
Geodad@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Bananas are a monoculture. One good, hard hitting, lethal pathogen could extinct them.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
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.
gajahmada@awful.systems 2 hours ago
We called all banana as Pisang (indonesia). Do you know which specific variety you tasted?
salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
Wake up babe, new copypasta just dropped 🍌
blackbeards_bounty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
Goat banana post
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
We are getting fucked, and not in the good way, because Cavendish is a straight up garbage fruit.
Good thing they will soon be gone.
Nikls94@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I was told a story of a chef I knew about a small, purple banana that tastes like vanilla.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 14 hours ago
But banana tastes like crap. Give me one that doesn’t taste like a banana.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
What is your favorite banana and how do I get it?
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
…again.
wieson@feddit.org 13 hours ago
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.
Geodad@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
That’s worse than a monoculture. 😬
smeenz@lemmy.nz 15 hours ago
Just like rubber trees.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
They’ll be gone in 10-15 years? The current popular version anyway. A fungi is destroying them.
It happened before back in the fifties with the last version. Except there’s nothing really close this time. The other types of bananas aren’t close at all
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
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.
Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Might’ve gone on a search bout baanas last night. I now prefer goldenfinger, a type AA cultivar I have never seen in my entire life.
Ledivin@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
…zero mess? What exactly are you doing with the “wrapper?”
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 hours ago
Bananas make my tummy hurt.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
They’re radioactive.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
A bad thing about bananas is that they make me insecure about my teeny tiny dick /s
M1ch431@slrpnk.net 17 hours ago
name one bad thing about it.
Okay, the wages and working conditions of plantation workers. The cost of bananas in first-world countries is ridiculously low, and is demeaning to those who work hard to enable this privilege for us.
Magnus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
You can shove them up your arse…also a great benefit.
kunaltyagi@programming.dev 12 hours ago
The banana republics? The monoculture? The fact the ones in supermarket taste bland and it costs and arm and leg if you want one that tastes good?
Take your pick
Kolanaki@pawb.social 21 hours ago
Cheap
Except when some genius at your local Walmart changes the price from $0.87/pound to $1.56/banana.
My store went from number 1 in sales of bananas in the country to dead last in jusy under a week because whoever set the prices was an idiot.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
The massive amounts of pesticides they spray on the banana plantations is pretty bad.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Americans use it as an excuse to avoid converting to metric.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Nothing beats that time when Kirk Cameron & Ray Comfort were praising God about how great bananas are. youtu.be/BXLqDGL1FSg
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I love bananas. About three years ago, I started having one banana and a spoonful of natural peanut butter for breakfast every day. It was easy and I loved it.
I put on 15 pounds before I noticed.
piwakawakas@lemmy.nz 13 hours ago
And yet supermarkets wrap them in plastic on a polystyrene tray…
DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
nilzen@lemmy.world 32 minutes 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 29 minutes ago
That isn’t bananas fault though.