Banana

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• cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  You can’t!

  Abnd if you can, the CIA will murder you!

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• SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  A bad thing about bananas is that they make me insecure about my teeny tiny dick /s

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• Geodad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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

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  • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    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.

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    • blackbeards_bounty@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Goat banana post

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  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    …again.

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  • smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Just like rubber trees.

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• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Nothing beats that time when Kirk Cameron & Ray Comfort were praising God about how great bananas are. youtu.be/BXLqDGL1FSg

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  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    The atheist’s nightmare! If they weren’t genetically engineered, that is.

    The smarmy arrogant ignorance dripping from that video is both hilarious and enraging.

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  • CanadiaDry@lemmy.world ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    My lord I remember laughing my ass off at that video years ago haha

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• ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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    • GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is why bananas are cheaper in the UK than in Brazil

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  • nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Rebound from a viral pandemic, RIP Gros Michel

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  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s only the Cavendish, there are other varieties of banana. I was recently in Hawai’i and got to try an Apple Banana that had been grown there.

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Picked by slaves.

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  • XiELEd@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In Southeast Asia we have lots of banana varieties that we regularly eat.

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• AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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

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  • ladicius@lemmy.world ⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    This claim is very dumb… So are Americans.

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• DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  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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  • nixus@anarchist.nexus ⁨20⁩ ⁨seconds⁩ ago

    *Avocados have entered the chat*

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  • Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I met someone that likes it a little green and not soft. We don’t talk anymore. /S

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Sounds like mofongo which is fucking delicious!

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• M1ch431@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  name one bad thing about it.

  Okay, the wages and working conditions of plantation workers. 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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  • JargonWagon@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Exactly. The post calls them being cheap a good thing, but when you know about the slave wages, idk if them being this cheap is that much of a positive.

    A lot of people just know that one song from the Beetlejuice movie, but it’s about the workers in banana plantations:
    “Come Mr. tally man! Tally me banana.
    Daylight come and me wanna go home.”

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• Echolynx@lemmy.zip ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  My GI tract always hates bananas, for whatever reason. That’s my main con.

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No flared base

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  • Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Decomposes, no problrm. Self unplugging, if you will.

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• kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  They attract mosquitoes

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• rbn@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • kungen@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s weight-based.

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  • crazycraw@crazypeople.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    while that looks dumb, keeping them separate helps them last longer.

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    • Trex202@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But they don’t breathe under the plastic, accelerating the ripening

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Phegan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    A great example of correlation and causation.

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  • salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • Kellenved@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How big was the spoon?

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  • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It was not the banana and peanut butter, lol.

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• Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  …zero mess? What exactly are you doing with the “wrapper?”

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  • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    also, banana strings

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  • stray@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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    • chellomere@lemmy.world ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I imagine they’d be chock full of pesticides tho

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  • _edge@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can eat it. Proof: me.

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    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Get out.

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    • jcs@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m calling the cops.

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  • fargeol@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just throw it behind your kart to slow down your opponents

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I prefer to accidentally throw it in front of my own kart.

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  • XiELEd@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The silver lining is that it’s biodegradable. And good as compost

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• skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Some people find the smell very strong. Something to do with receptors idk? I know someone with a banana allergy who can immediately tell if he’s entered a room with bananas in it from smell alone, even if they’re not peeled.

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• rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe are heavily contaminated with chlordecone,[19] following years of its massive and unrestricted use on banana plantations: primarily against Cosmopolites sordidus.[20][21] Despite a 1990 ban on the substance in mainland France, the economically powerful banana planters lobbied intensively to obtain a waiver to keep using Kepone until 1993. They argued that no alternative pesticide was available, which has since been disputed. After the 1993 ban, the banana planters were discreetly granted derogations to use their remaining stocks, and a 2005 report prepared by the French National Assembly states that after the 1993 ban was imposed, the chemical was illegally imported to the islands under the name Curlone, and continued to be used for many years.[9] Since 2003, local authorities in the two islands have restricted the cultivation of various food crops because the soil is badly contaminated by chlordecone. A 2018 large-scale study by the French public health agency, Santé publique France, shows that 95% of the inhabitants of Guadeloupe and 92% of those of Martinique are contaminated by the chemical.[22] Guadeloupe has one of the highest prostate cancer diagnosis rates in the world.[23]

  If you know how to read french, there is this comic book from Jessica Oublié, this is really well documented and sadly amazing to read, there are lots of french colonization implications in this story, obviously. The other comic about caribbean colonization by Jessica Oublié is also very impressive work.

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• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What’s with the weird censoring of the post metadata? Do we not want to credit the original poster for some reason?

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  • Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its a thing on a lot of forums, no identifying information blah blah blah… So reposts such as this will often be edited to high hell lol.

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• frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’re radioactive.

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  • 0ops@piefed.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s the way I like it

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    • Flying_Dutch_Rudder@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Uh huh uh huh

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  • T156@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So are you. They’re not special.

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  • umbraroze@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’re completely safe what comes to Potassium-40 radioactivity! You need to eat a massive amount of them to even reach the point where you experience radiation sickness. Actually, you might experience excessive potassium toxicity levels first. (Or you might not! Human bodies are equipped to get rid of excess potassium.) Or, you know, you might experience the problems of stuffing too much stuff down your gullet. There’s only so much stuff you can fit in your stomach at one time.

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s the good spice.

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• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’re lousy as long term art pieces.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Acamon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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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• TheSlad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tastes yucky 🤮

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• planish@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Thanks Thursday Next’s Dad!

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• quoll@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  bad: shelf life of a banana

  good: fun to spell

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• bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We are one minor mutation of a common banana disease away from having to get an entirely new kind of banana, and frankly we are not prepared for that.

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• ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They have strings and the little brown tip.

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• Xenny@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bananas can replace egg when baking desserts. 34 grams of banana per one egg is perfect btw.

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• Triumph@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Cavendish banana is a monoculture that your grandkids will never know, the same way that you’ve (very probably) never had a Gros Michel.

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• Shrubbery@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  • comes in its own wrapper
  • zero mess, zero cleanup, zero prep

  Choose one.

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• Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  High glycemic index.
  Has to be imported from tropical to non-tropical regions.
  Cavendish variety, pictured above is susceptible to Fusarium wilt aka Panama disease

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