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[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 273 points 6 days ago (7 children)

One single plant, cloned thousands of times. Easily devastated by disease.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 165 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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 91 points 6 days ago (6 children)

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.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've always assumed I misunderstood the brands name but no one has corrected you yet...

To the rabbit hole!

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 48 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Ok I'm back, it's just ignorant assholes all the way down

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[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Twin Towers wholesale outlet: our prices are coming down fast!

Pearl harbor casual clothing.

Jim crows bar and grill.

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[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 33 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So they can feed disease too? Is there anything bananas can't do?

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 days ago (10 children)

Rebound from a viral pandemic, RIP Gros Michel

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[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 114 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] kungen@feddit.nu 24 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Do the 16p and 14p bananas taste better than the 13p bananas?

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 21 points 6 days ago

Oh, these aren't meant to be eaten. They're 'for scale' bananas and the price is based on manufacturing accuracy.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 94 points 6 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 67 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

...zero mess? What exactly are you doing with the "wrapper?" You know you're not supposed to eat it, right?

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 86 points 6 days ago

Throw it on the ground as a trap for the one walking behind you

[–] _edge@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You can eat it. Proof: me.

[–] jcs@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

I'm calling the cops.

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[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Just throw it behind your kart to slow down your opponents

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[–] stray@pawb.social 18 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 62 points 6 days ago (6 children)
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[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 53 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Bananas are a monoculture. One good, hard hitting, lethal pathogen could extinct them.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 83 points 6 days ago (13 children)

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.

[–] salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wake up babe, new copypasta just dropped 🍌

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[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 19 points 6 days ago
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[–] attinio@feddit.it 46 points 6 days ago (17 children)

Don't they cost, like, 10 dollars a piece?

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

There's always bananas in the money stand.

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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 6 days ago (4 children)
[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] nilzen@lemmy.world 44 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] orioler25@lemmy.world 37 points 6 days ago (6 children)

History of banana and why it's cheap.

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[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 37 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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 23 points 6 days ago (22 children)

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.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 36 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (11 children)

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.

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[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (11 children)

One bad thing: it's all just clones so now it's extremely vulnerable to one kind of fungus, much like the gros michel banana it faces near extinction

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[–] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

name one bad thing about it.

Okay, the wages and working conditions of plantation workers (modern slaves). 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.

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[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago (14 children)

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.

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 days ago (4 children)

They have strings and the little brown tip.

[–] CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world 51 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That “little brown tip” is called the bananus.

[–] brap@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago

Fuck you, that snort I made when I read that almost woke up my toddler. Fucking bananus 🤣

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

🤔 I'm skeptical that it was just the banana and peanut butter that did it.

[–] Kellenved@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

A bad thing about bananas is that they look like Homer Simpson's penis

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[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Nothing beats that time when Kirk Cameron & Ray Comfort were praising God about the brilliant design of bananas.

https://youtu.be/BXLqDGL1FSg

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[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Americans use it as an excuse to avoid converting to metric.

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[–] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Except for there is like a 1 hour window when they taste really good and have a good texture. In between when they're green and taste like chalk and when they're full yellow and taste like mushy baby food.

Right in that 1 hour window? Delicious.

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