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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨mmmm@sopuli.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What’s with the weird censoring of the post metadata? Do we not want to credit the original poster for some reason?

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    • Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Its a thing on a lot of forums, no identifying information blah blah blah… So reposts such as this will often be edited to high hell lol.

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    • m532@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Post metadata gets automatically removed so people don’t accidentally dox themselves

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  • rakete@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s radioaktiv

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    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Everything is.

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      • rakete@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What about stable iron?

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  • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The Cavendish banana is a monoculture that your grandkids will never know, the same way that you’ve (very probably) never had a Gros Michel.

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    • bobo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The Cavendish banana is a monoculture

      Who could have guessed a banana cultivar is a method of growing crops

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    • voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Huh. I still see Gros Michel (or a relatively similar breed) at markets from time to time where I live (although I’m in the Middle East)

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      • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There are a handful of places still growing Gros Michel on a very small scale, hence the "very probably" modifier.

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  • TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The Bananas War

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The massive amounts of pesticides they spray on the banana plantations is pretty bad.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I mean, get Bio and Fairtrade?

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  • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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).

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    • LadyButterfly@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I eat the core too! There’s nowt wrong with eating the core

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      • Bearlydave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Angrily eats banana peel…

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      • CyberTailor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It contains cyanides, so if you eat too many apples this way, expect headache

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      • loldog191@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      do you just spit out the seeds?

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      • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I eat those too

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  • drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Look up the history of the banana trade.

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  • quoll@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    bad: shelf life of a banana

    good: fun to spell

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    • HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      B! - A - N - A - N - A - S!

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  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They tend to go extinct every so often and need a different variety to replace them.

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    • buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Is there concern about the cavendish?

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      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yes. Cavendish is in trouble.

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      • MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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    • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What if I hire a bodyguard for the banana?

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    • ygurin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      A feature not a bug

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  • ranzispa@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      will any plastic fish work or is it necessary to have a plastic carp?

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      • ranzispa@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Carp for best results, may be substituted with salmon or tuna but do not expect the same quality.

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  • FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve got 2 bad things

    1. The included wrapper isn’t very rigid and can split and mash around. I’ve had several bananas turn to paste if they are forgotten about in a backpack or work their way to the bottom and end up crushed by other items.

    2. Fruit flies.

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Bananas make my tummy hurt.

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    • TheCynicalSaint@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They give me a weird mouth feel, kinda tingling and burning.

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    • TheTurner@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They do that to me as well.

      I’m allergic to fruits in the Sapindaceae family too.

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      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • lukaro@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Bananas and coffee don’t mix, coffee is life so therefore no bananas for me.

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      • Akrenion@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Can you elaborate on that?

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      • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’ll be honest, coffee and banana is my morning routine

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  • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    even one bite makes gives me such an insane stomach pain and nausea that I’m crying in my bed for three days. and it’s not stomach cramps, it just feels like my entire belly will explode and nothing comes out. years ago i could eat them just fine, but now it’s also pears and berries…

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    • philpo@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Get an allergy test. Banana allergies (even though that doesn’t necessarily sound like one) are associated with other allergies,including some medications.

      So…you might want to know in advance.

      If it is not that then try biobananas once. A lot of people are sensitive to the pesticides used.

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  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They’re lousy as long term art pieces.

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  • kalapala@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    New banana isn’t as sweet as the old banana and old one doesn’t seem to be coming back?

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    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Being monocultures, (genetic clones) commercially grown edible bananas are extremely vulnerable to disease.

      The currently most popular variant is the Cavendish, replacing the earlier and now extinct Gros Michel, wiped out by the Panama Disease (a fungus).

      While the Gros Michel isn’t coming back, people are apparently trying to create and grow new variants, as what happened before can happen again.

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    • Manjushri@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Do you mean the Gros Michel banana ? It went commercially extinct in the ‘60s due to a fungus. So, yeah, probably not coming back. Sadly, the Cavendish banana is also subject to the same fungus so may also get wiped out at some point in the future.

      But Race 4 (also known as TR4 or fusarium wilt), the new version of Panama disease that started affecting crops in the subtropics in the 1980s and wiping them out, has since moved to infect crops in the Vietnam, Laos, Pakistan, India, Mozambique, and Australia. In 2019, Colombia declared a national disaster when it was discovered there. As it inches closer to Latin America, the likelihood of losing the Cavendish increases.

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      • kalapala@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I guess not as I remember having some actually tasty imported bananas in 90’s. No idea what happened but currently only even a bit tasty ones are natural and really small and still not as sweet.

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      • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        fusarium wilt

        Mmmmm, fusarium wilt!

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    • T156@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s still around. It just got replaced by the new banana for produce.

      You can still buy Gros Michel bananas, they’re just harder to find compared to a Cavendish.

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      • kalapala@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Any ideas where to search or where to travel to find those?

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  • curiousaur@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Its almost as good as potato!

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    • mmmm@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And cooked.

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  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    1 bad thing of the disease that decimates the crops

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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)

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  • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I learned this the hard way lol, mangoes also fo that.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    you forgot

    • delicious
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  • Echolynx@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My GI tract always hates bananas, for whatever reason. That’s my main con.

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  • kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They attract mosquitoes

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  • Xenny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Bananas can replace egg when baking desserts. 34 grams of banana per one egg is perfect btw.

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  • Hagenman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I can name one bad thing. It was used as example of intelligent design by Kirk Cameron…

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Looked at another way, you might say that banana made him look like a fool and publicly humiliated him without so much as a word.

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    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      youtu.be/BXLqDGL1FSg

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  • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Bananas are way overrated. Not nearly as much potassium as potatoes. As far as fruits go, they are lower fiber, high sugar (aka the not good kind of carbs).

    And you know how they turn brown quickly after being exposed to air? That process virtually eliminates the absorption of any sources of antioxidants that it might be mixed with. Like adding bananas to your smoothies? If you were hoping for health benefits, you just wasted your money.

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    • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I am not a moron lol, I add the banana to my smoothie as a sweetener and to make it creamy, I add the spinach leaves, chia seeds, flax seeds and walnuts for health, along with a bunch of protein

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      • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I don’t think you understand. By adding the banana, you are canceling out the benefits of all of those other things.

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  • TheSlad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Tastes yucky 🤮

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  • bryndos@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They automatically come with a sense of scale.

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  • anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    <Shitty New Zealand accent> And if you look here, there’s a convenient little tab that god put right 'ere to make it easy to open

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    • LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s actually the handle for holding it while you eat. Far fewer stringy bits get in the way if you pinch the bottom of it and split the peel from that end

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  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I like how the person is placing a banana to show scale/size.

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