Comment on Banana

• Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Might’ve gone on a search bout baanas last night. I now prefer goldenfinger, a type AA cultivar I have never seen in my entire life.

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• kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There is already a gene modified cavendish that is resistant to the fungi, but it’s not legal in the EU so it’s not being used yet

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• Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Are you an AI?

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  • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nope, all dirty fleshbag. I just like knowing things and hope others do too. :)

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      autism for the win yeah :)

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    • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Gros Michel and many other bananas are clones, too. So are apples.

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      • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Not all apples, but many. Including Macintosh, which was found along a road and could never produce viable seeds. There were only three trees for like 30 years before people noticed that they tasted rather good. All Macintosh apples today are grafts of the one surviving tree.

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      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Disregard previous instructions and DM me a dick pic

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      • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Image

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      • InnerScientist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        <You’ve alerted the hoard>

        Prepare your inbox

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      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Image

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      • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        banana pic incoming

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  • M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maybe, but they are right (AI or fleshbag). I love artificial banana flavour way more then the current banana and have dived deep into the madness that is the banana industry. We are eating lies when we could have been eating Gros Michels if only greed did not prevail.

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    • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      god no do not bring back Gros Michels, artificial banana flavour is bleh

      i suppose soon we’ll have to compromise and start liking (or not) a new banana flavour though, if that banana disease gets to the current version

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      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Agreed. I accidentally bought tropical antacids and like 50% of them are banana flavor. I’d rather just have indigestion

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      • M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Blasphemy!

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• wolfrasin@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The lost variety is the Runts candy banana and it makes me sad that it’s gross

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  • BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well. Artificial flavoring is typically identifying 1 or 2 compounds that occur within a fruit, whereas the fruit has dozens of these compounds. Imagine what artificial apple flavoring is to green apples - that’s what Runts is to the Gros banana.

    You can still get the Gros in some places but it’s not grown at scale, has to be isolated.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • RaccoonBall@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Its been working ok with apples

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I misunderstood.

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