Comment on Banana
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 months 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.
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:
The one that supposedly tastes like vanilla pudding
The one that no longer exists where banana flavoured candy derives its flavor from.
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.
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 they aren’t hardy enough for long-term storage and 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.
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.
wtf they’re like 50¢/lb here
notnotmike@programming.dev 10 months ago
Why do you know that data
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 months ago
Because I worked there, in the department that handled bananas.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Literally a professional banana handler.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 10 months ago
Wow, we have Banana Man here
(I skimmed your profile and I’m 90% sure you’re male)