Comment on Banana

• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Rebound from a viral pandemic, RIP Gros Michel

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  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Only heard about those via my dad, never got to try one…

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    • teft@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They aren’t extinct, just not commercially viable. 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.

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      • DakRalter@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s a myth about the flavour. Although TIL they do smell strongly like artificial banana flavour.

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    • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      if you’ve ever had banana laffy taffy you’ve had the artificially created flavor of one.

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      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        or banana jelly beans.

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      • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And I find it preferable to the real thing

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    • tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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: miamifruit.org/…/gros-michel-banana-box-order. If you had wanted to try one; more expensive, due to the fragility of the crop, but viable.

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      • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thanks for that, but holy crap that’s expensive

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    • tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can order them from Hawaii (or maybe you have to physically be there).

      It’s just no longer worth mass producing and shipping any more due to the potential to lose your entire crop.

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