Banana
Submitted 2 weeks ago by mmmm@sopuli.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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rbn@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
kungen@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
Do the 16p and 14p bananas taste better than the 13p bananas?
rbn@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Oh, these aren’t meant to be eaten. They’re ‘for scale’ bananas and the price is based on manufacturing accuracy.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
It’s weight-based.
crazycraw@crazypeople.online 2 weeks ago
while that looks dumb, keeping them separate helps them last longer.
Trex202@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But they don’t breathe under the plastic, accelerating the ripening
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
No flared base
Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Decomposes, no problrm. Self unplugging, if you will.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Based and “no need for flared base”-pilled
Ledivin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
…zero mess? What exactly are you doing with the “wrapper?”
magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Throw it on the ground as a trap for the one walking behind you
_edge@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
You can eat it. Proof: me.
jcs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m calling the cops.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Get out.
fargeol@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just throw it behind your kart to slow down your opponents
Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I prefer to accidentally throw it in front of my own kart.
stray@pawb.social 2 weeks 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.
chellomere@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I imagine they’d be chock full of pesticides tho
psoul@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is this AI slop?? Because I don’t believe this
XiELEd@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
The silver lining is that it’s biodegradable. And good as compost
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
also, banana strings
lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
DNS@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
The trick is to get the green/light green bananas as they begin to ripen. Buying yellow to slightly darker yellow bananas will shorten their shelf life tremendously.
I’m not a fan of freezing them as they’ll still continue to ripen. Your best case scenario if you start seeing them browning out is to make some banana bread or mix it in cupcake/cake mix.
Or stick it up your butt.
kossa@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Banana milkshake is where all the dark bananas go for me.
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
The brown bananas are still good 😏 more sweet and some alc 👌🏻
anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
yuck, banana bread and cupcake are both so full of added wheat and sugar that the product no longer counts as whole fruit.
Geodad@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bananas are a monoculture. One good, hard hitting, lethal pathogen could extinct them.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks 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.
salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Wake up babe, new copypasta just dropped 🍌
blackbeards_bounty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Goat banana post
Nikls94@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was told a story of a chef I knew about a small, purple banana that tastes like vanilla.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
We are getting fucked, and not in the good way, because Cavendish is a straight up garbage fruit.
Good thing they will soon be gone.
gajahmada@awful.systems 2 weeks ago
We called all banana as Pisang (indonesia). Do you know which specific variety you tasted?
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
What is your favorite banana and how do I get it?
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
But banana tastes like crap. Give me one that doesn’t taste like a banana.
AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
In Portugal, it’s very common to find bananas from the Madeira islands being sold in stores, even in like our equivalent of Walmart or Carrefour.
They’re like half the length of a Cavendish, a bit more tasty, but still very similar. I very much prefer them.
I know it’s not as exotic as your selection but it was something I was able to eat regularly and pretty accessibly there
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
…again.
wieson@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Isn’t monoculture a plantation where you grow only one crop? At least in my language it is. But bananas are a genetic clone of their mother plant. That means all plants of one cultivar are n-tuplets, if I remember correctly.
Geodad@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s worse than a monoculture. 😬
smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
Just like rubber trees.
attinio@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
Don’t they cost, like, 10 dollars a piece?
Randelung@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s always bananas in the money stand.
tamal3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean, they should, but because of what amounts to basically slave labor, they don’t cost near that much in the US. That’s the big evil of bananas these days. I love them, but I don’t buy them.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
these days
No, this is always been the case with bananas. There’s a reason why we have the term banana republic. Literally every banana ever bought by an American has been drenched in blood.
There are more involved videos on the subject but this is the shortest and most concise that I could find.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I pay 1€ for a french banana in mainland France
KarlHungus42@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sounds like you need to go see a star war
jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Not when you haven’t got a complete moron at the helm slapping tariffs on everything he can think of. Here’s an example from a first world country (78p if you cba to click): groceries.morrisons.com/products/…/115455355
Hexarei@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
I think the comment you’re replying to was a reference to The Office, a la “It’s one banana, what could it cost, $10?”
bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 2 weeks ago
Thats insane 😂
nilzen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The monopoly that supplies most bananas to the “western” world has long been known to be a murderous corrupt corp? That’s the one major drawback to that chewy sweet banana fiber.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
That isn’t bananas fault though.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
yeah guys im not a part of that whole movement
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
They’re radioactive.
0ops@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
That’s the way I like it
Flying_Dutch_Rudder@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Uh huh uh huh
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 2 weeks 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.
T156@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So are you. They’re not special.
Klear@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Your mum’s radioactive
orioler25@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
History of banana and why it’s cheap.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’ll be gone in 10-15 years? The current popular version anyway. A fungi is destroying them.
It happened before back in the fifties with the last version. Except there’s nothing really close this time. The other types of bananas aren’t close at all
kameecoding@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
One bad thing: it’s all just clones so now it’s extremely vulnerable to one kind of fungus, much like the cavendish banana it faces near extinction
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks 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.
M1ch431@slrpnk.net 2 weeks 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.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
Acamon@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
They have strings and the little brown tip.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Americans use it as an excuse to avoid converting to metric.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A bad thing about bananas is that they make me insecure about my teeny tiny dick /s
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nothing beats that time when Kirk Cameron & Ray Comfort were praising God about how great bananas are. youtu.be/BXLqDGL1FSg
DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I have some bad news about bananas. The current strain we use as food is going extinct as the banana trees are ill and dying out. Luckily we’re already changing a different strain to be ready for consumption (making them bigger and without seeds because yes, wild bananas are full of seeds).
Also cocoa plants are ill and dying and we don’t have a different strain. So some time in the future we will be without chocolate.
BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bad thing: banana Republic. Other than that… 100% legit.
kunaltyagi@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
The banana republics? The monoculture? The fact the ones in supermarket taste bland and it costs and arm and leg if you want one that tastes good?
Take your pick
piwakawakas@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
And yet supermarkets wrap them in plastic on a polystyrene tray…
rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks 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.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Easy. The taste and the texture. Awful.
Shrubbery@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
- comes in its own wrapper
- zero mess, zero cleanup, zero prep
Choose one.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Fun fact: The banana was actually a significant part of the industrial revolution. This was because coal miners could eat it without needing to wash their hands.
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
One single plant, cloned thousands of times. Easily devastated by disease.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
This is why bananas are cheaper in the UK than in Brazil
nexguy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So they can feed disease too? Is there anything bananas can’t do?
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Rebound from a viral pandemic, RIP Gros Michel
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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.
XiELEd@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
In Southeast Asia we have lots of banana varieties that we regularly eat.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Picked by slaves.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
just like the previous, gros michael, the cavendish is susceptible to a fungal/bacterial disease. Wild type are pratically resistant, or a different species. but they often have that unslightly seeds.