One single plant, cloned thousands of times. Easily devastated by disease.
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.
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.
I’ve always assumed I misunderstood the brands name but no one has corrected you yet…
To the rabbit hole!
Ok I’m back, it’s just ignorant assholes all the way down
Well that didn’t take very long… Disturbing how quickly you were able to discern it was all assholes all the way down.
I think they just peered over the edge and were convinced when they saw sphincter after sphincter.
Oo°•.
Always has been 🔫
Wow, thanks for doing the research! Did you find anything especially interesting?
Twin Towers wholesale outlet: our prices are coming down fast!
Pearl harbor casual clothing.
Jim crows bar and grill.
That last one is just something that could’ve realistically existed.
…and would continue to exist, unaltered, well up until the 70s when, finally, it was modified due to growing public awareness; and only because of that.
Sambo’s managed to barely survive until 2020.
Our prices are falling from our hot deals but fret not: the melting point of steel… 🤔
“Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” was probably a gateway drug for so many of the crazies today
i’m stealing the demolition company named around september 11th idea, that’s actually funny as fuck
If our competition raises prices! … We’ll bring them down!!!
Well I think I just realised why they do it. There’s this longstanding conspiracy theory that whenever a politician does a fuckup they conveniently say keywords associated with the fuckup but put it in a different context (like say, scandal related to trains, so they get into a model train hobby), and they pay advertisers to market that changed context HARD, so if people search up their name plus trains what shows up are articles talking about their new hobby.
Just thought of this because I was searching up “Banana Republic” in the context of neocolonialism (while reading my country’s history) and besides the Wikipedia page being the first result, the next results were that store. And I remembered this reply.
I had never heard of that tactic. Thanks for sharing. I’ll be looking for IRL examples now.
Nixon should have started a hobby in hydraulic engineering specializing in the design and production of water gates, specifically for the Potomac River, including one near that hotel/office/apartment complex that’s name I forget.
This is why bananas are cheaper in the UK than in Brazil
So they can feed disease too? Is there anything bananas can’t do?
Rebound from a viral pandemic, RIP Gros Michel
Only heard about those via my dad, never got to try one…
You’d reminded me that I still wanted to try these, someday, and I went looking, again, for if there was an easier means (other than travelling to Hawaii); I found this place that delivers within the contiguous states: https://miamifruit.org/products/gros-michel-banana-box-order. If you had wanted to try one; more expensive, due to the fragility of the crop, but viable.
Thanks for that, but holy crap that’s expensive
😄
if you’ve ever had banana laffy taffy you’ve had the artificially created flavor of one.
They aren’t extinct, they just aren’t commercially viable to grow on large scales any more. A few isolated pockets of the trees survived the blight. A quick web search will turn up someone selling some if you really want to try them but like the other poster said if you’ve tried fake banana flavor you’ve tried gros michel.
That’s a myth about the flavour. Although TIL they do smell strongly like artificial banana flavour.
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.
Picked by slaves.
In Southeast Asia we have lots of banana varieties that we regularly eat.
thousands
Millions at least
No flared base
Decomposes, no problrm. Self unplugging, if you will.
Based and “no need for flared base”-pilled
Do the 16p and 14p bananas taste better than the 13p bananas?
It’s weight-based.
Oh, these aren’t meant to be eaten. They’re ‘for scale’ bananas and the price is based on manufacturing accuracy.
while that looks dumb, keeping them separate helps them last longer.
But they don’t breathe under the plastic, accelerating the ripening
…zero mess? What exactly are you doing with the “wrapper?” You know you’re not supposed to eat it, right?
Throw it on the ground as a trap for the one walking behind you
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.
I imagine they’d be chock full of pesticides tho
Though generally with fruits the added amount of vitamins and all the good stuff that’s concentrated in the skin far outweighs the small amount of pesticides you might consume.
Is this AI slop?? Because I don’t believe this
Just throw it behind your kart to slow down your opponents
I prefer to accidentally throw it in front of my own kart.
You can eat it. Proof: me.
Get out.
I’m calling the cops.
The silver lining is that it’s biodegradable. And good as compost
also, banana strings
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.
That isn’t bananas fault though.
yeah guys im not a part of that whole movement
Holup. Are you a banana dealer who is large or a dealer with a large banana? 🧐
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 just under a week because whoever set the prices was an idiot.
Also genetic diversity is in the crapper. One epidemic and we won’t have bananas anymore.
number 1 in sales of bananas in the country
Why do you know that data
Because I worked there, in the department that handled bananas.
Literally a professional banana handler.
Wow, we have Banana Man here
(I’m not assuming his gender, the profile says he’s male)
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.
I would love to try two different bananas I have only ever read about:
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The one that supposedly tastes like vanilla pudding
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The one that no longer exists where banana flavoured candy derives its flavor from.
Unlike that artificial strawberry flavor that sucks compared to actual strawberries, I quite like the artificial banana flavor of candy over an actual banana (which, to me, barely has a flavor at all).
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.
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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 that most of the time they aren’t feasible for export.
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.
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.
wtf they’re like 50¢/lb here
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.
They’re radioactive.
That’s the way I like it
Uh huh uh huh
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.
That’s the good spice.
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.
The brown bananas are still good 😏 more sweet and some alc 👌🏻
yuck, banana bread and cupcake are both so full of added wheat and sugar that the product no longer counts as whole fruit.
History of banana and why it’s cheap.
History of everything you can plant under a society that puts profit over people’s life
Jesus Christ you people need to read more history.
you mean more propaganda.
Exactly what the fuck do you think you’re referencing?
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.
Bananas are a monoculture. One good, hard hitting, lethal pathogen could extinct them.
…again.
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.
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What is your favorite banana and how do I get it?
A tie between the Gros Michel and the Cuban Red. I was staying with a friend in Hawaii when I went on my banana bender, but both look to be intermittently available for delivery online at Miami Fruit.
:o
Goat banana post
We called all banana as Pisang (indonesia). Do you know which specific variety you tasted?
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.
But banana tastes like crap. Give me one that doesn’t taste like a banana.
So get this. Have you ever had Runts candy? If you or any other readers have, then you’ve likely noted that the banana candy just doesn’t taste right. That’s because it’s based on the original mass production banana, the Gros Michel, AKA the “Big Mike”. That’s a proper banana. Cavendish is shit but it’s the only type most people have eaten. They’ve eaten shit. Banana shit.
The following may not apply to you but may for others:
Saying you hate bananas when you have only tried cavendish is like saying you hate beer when you’ve only tried warm, flat Keystone Light.
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.
That’s worse than a monoculture. 😬
Just like rubber trees.
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.
🤔 I’m skeptical that it was just the banana and peanut butter that did it.
How big was the spoon?
The spoon
They would add an insulin spike early in the day, and increase hunger
It was not the banana and peanut butter, lol.
A great example of correlation and causation.
We are one minor mutation of a common banana disease away from having to get an entirely new kind of banana, and frankly we are not prepared for that.
bananas are mid anyway, like red apples. nothing of value lost
they dont even have a lot of potassium, you’d have to eat like 70 bananas to get rdv of potassium.
you want rdv potassium (or most any other vitamin) you need to eat fucking vegetables
You have to eat approximately 10 bananas for rdv of potassium.
rdv for potassium is 4500mg. A banana contains approximately 420-550mg of potassium.
While 70 bananas is probably not going to kill you, ld50 for potassium is 2500mg/kg, that much potassium can exacerbate some heart problems.
Two words: banana bread.
Banana pudding. I’ll stab someone over that stuff.
any other fruit with a load of sugar made into bread form tastes the same or better than banana bread
The taste. I’ve tried to like them. Had them in smoothies and banana bread, had the is savoury and sweet things. I even made myself eat one everyday while hiking cross country, thinking I’d learn to associate the taste which much needed energy. Nothing worked, they just taste like garbage smells. And the texture! Firm and soft each have their unique horrors.
I had a brazillian co-worker that brought in “real bananas” and it was a night and day difference. way more flavour.
“Real bananas”? Aren’t they basically all the same strain of Cavendish?
Idk about Brazil but there’s a lot of banana varieties that are regularly consumed around the world. There’s Lakatan, Saba and Latundan in the Philippines for example, the Saba banana being really popular as a fried snack on a stick.
There are many varieties in the Philippines. They can usually be found in decent Philippino stores in California.
Yeah, but you should see the bananas at the indecent stores!
No. Here in colombia we’ve got dozens of varieties. The problem is they don’t ship well so you can’t generally get them far from where they grow.
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.
I’m with you! The texture is a horror.
The above user is a cat
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
Have you tried fresh banana picked a minute ago?
No, but if climate change keeps accelerating, I might be able to eat a home grown banana. Unless the gulf stream breaks of first, in which case I can heard reindeer.
Both are horrifying to think about.Maybe a future classic dish will be banana reindeer
They have strings and the little brown tip.
That “little brown tip” is called the bananus.
Fuck you, that snort I made when I read that almost woke up my toddler. Fucking bananus 🤣
Bananas are acoustic guitars.
All bananas are guitars, but not all guitars are bananas
Hey, what do you have against little brown tips?
Don’t they cost, like, 10 dollars a piece?
There’s always bananas in the money stand.
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.
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.
At least it’s tasty blood?
Idk, I’m trying to find the silver lining here.
The sort of silver lining here is that America is finally getting a taste of our own medicine.
That is to say, Russia interfering with our elections in order to install a president more friendly to their interests. And then that President going hog wild fascist and veritably wrecking our constitutional government in order to service his own desires for power.
I pay 1€ for a french banana in mainland France
they grow bananas in France? that’s bananas!
Nearly no one got your reference :D
Sounds like you need to go see a star war
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): https://groceries.morrisons.com/products/fyffes-bananas/115455355
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?”
This is Arrested Development erasure.
As much as I’d love to respond with a troll face and pretend that was purposeful ragebait, I’m not gonna lie - having watched neither, I legit thought it was The Office lmao. Thanks for the correction =]
I mean the queerphobia, ableism and racism in Arrested Development is off the charts, and a lot if not all of the cultural references no longer hold up, so I wouldn’t recommend it. The office, well, it’s not great but it’s not as bad if you need some slop to play in the background.
Good to know, I will continue with my plan to not watch it, thanks lol
How dare.
