Comment on banaynay

daltotron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• derf82@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  We picked the Gros Michel (before it got decimated by Panama Disease) and now the Cavendish because they can be mass grown, harvested before they are ripe, shipped around the world with minimal special handling, be ripened locally, and can survive all that without getting blemished.

  While there are plenty of other bananas, really only those varieties could do that. Bananas cost less than a buck per pound. Other varieties would have to be shipped by air with special handling and cost many times more.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’d like to just grow a tree in my backyard. But I don’t live in the right climate. Or have a backyard.

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    • Lyrl@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I live in the Midwest, and had a coworker with a banana plant (I think a Cavendish). He cut it down and dug up the root ball to bring inside every winter. Every few years, the weather was warm enough long enough the thing actually made bananas.

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      • MechanicalJester@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        They need a small greenhouse for it. Leave it where it is, put weed block down 8’x8’ Get 3 45deg top fittings for fence rail pipe 10’ long 2 8’ 2x4 boards

        Make tall triangle greenhouse using the pipes for the 6 legs 4 feet apart.

        Use the 2x4s on the inside to hold the pipe spacing and structure

        Cover in greenhouse plastic.

        Go bananas

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      • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        lol

        “Put out the cat and bring in the BANANA TREE.”

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    • daltotron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Could always get a UV light and a humidifier and grow one in your bathroom.

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  • daltotron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I feel like the solution is probably more local banana

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    • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      We all dream of thicc local bananas.

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    • derf82@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      It’s a tropical fruit. It doesn’t grow well in temperate areas.

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      • daltotron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Couldn’t we have like greenhouses at some level of scale? Maybe even like, integrate it more easily into normal housing or just larger public spaces? Banana trees get tall, but they don’t get so tall that you couldn’t probably fit them into a lot of places. Beyond that I think maybe the only problem would be, like, humidity, which there’s probably some sort of workaround for, I dunno.

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I want a banana split with one of these bad boys like a bread bowl.

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  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Putting the boat in banana boat

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• eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Gros Michel is long gone, it’s the Cavendish that we’re about to lose.

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  • Sharkwellington@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Whelp, time to boot up Balatro again.

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  • mwproductions@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    The Gros Michel isn’t extinct, just hard to find.

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    • derf82@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      For the price they might as well be.

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      • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I didn’t know they were even still available.

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• antidote101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I imagine less sweet and with the dry tang of an overly ripe banana. I imagine by the end of consuming some you’re no longer interested in eating this kind of banana again.

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  • Lyrl@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    It’s more likely they ship poorly. Same reason the tastiest tomato or strawberry varieties are not the ones grown commercially.

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  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    If you googled it you’d see that it’s described as creamy and sweet.

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