Also you harvest them every two weeks. Want to sell them already? Just stick them under a plastic carp for a couple of days and they’ll be ripe and yellow.
The bad part is loading trucks of bananas is hard work, those things are heavy.
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.
yuck, banana bread and cupcake are both so full of added wheat and sugar that the product no longer counts as whole fruit.
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.
The replacement for the Cavendish is already being sold commercially in Australia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfinger_banana
Bananas have seeds? 😳
Wild bananas, yes.
The ones you eat are a perfect example of a genetically modified plant - cultivated specifically for human consumption.
I have a sudden inspiration for a new gmo food.
People are working on that already. Did not work until now as far as I know.
This is a problem that has been known for a while.
My Choconanas will take the world by storm
History of banana and why it’s cheap.
History of everything you can plant under a society that puts profit over people’s life
Jesus Christ you people need to read more history.
you mean more propaganda.
It’s just a standard fruit. Nothing to see here.
You can shove them up your arse…also a great benefit.
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.
Don’t they cost, like, 10 dollars a piece?
Sounds like you need to go see a star war
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.
I pay 1€ for a french banana in mainland France
they grow bananas in France? that’s bananas!
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.
There’s always bananas in the money stand.
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): https://groceries.morrisons.com/products/fyffes-bananas/115455355
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?”
How dare.
This is Arrested Development erasure.
Bananas make my tummy hurt.
They do that to me as well.
I’m allergic to fruits in the Sapindaceae family too.
Not sure what all is included in that but I am slightly allergic to some other fruits as well, they just make my ears itchy though, not upset stomach like bananas do.
Bananas and coffee don’t mix, coffee is life so therefore no bananas for me.
Can you elaborate on that?
The combination gives me bad indigestion. One or the other I’m fine, so if I have to choose one coffee always wins.
I’ll be honest, coffee and banana is my morning routine
One bad thing: it’s all just clones so now it’s extremely vulnerable to one kind of fungus, much like the gros michel banana it faces near extinction
Not here around the world, maybe in your banana republic.
We have atleast 10 varities in our country.
half of those plaintaines?
Depending on where you live, there’s quite a few varieties available on the market
My local Acme carried red bananas for a while. They are fucking delicious, taste more like a banana custard than a regular yellow banana. They’re also a bit smaller so less of a commitment to carbo-loading when you peel one. I wouldn’t mind at all if they became the new standard banana, even if it would kind of ruin Mario Kart.
even if it would kind of ruin Mario Kart.
hell no! get your priorities straight.
/s
Isn’t that exactly the reason that the banana ended your attempt? You could bent your move but straight is some kind of paradigmic ideology that you _fear_to save your own life?
Edit: I mean, I wish I could be sarcastic about that expression but do mind that I do recognize that you, personally, aren’t the target of my reply. I mean to simply validate the significance of the sarcasm you so well express!
Soon we’ll all be able to grow bananas.
RIP Gros Michel 😢
Time for that ×3 mult!
The massive amounts of pesticides they spray on the banana plantations is pretty bad.
I mean, get Bio and Fairtrade?
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
That old version “Gros Michel” is what artificial banana flavour is based on. Bananas used to taste like that. The newer “Cavendish” variety is firmer and lasts longer, but doesn’t have the same flavour. It seems like both are being wiped out by disease though, yay monoculture.
Cavendish seem to be especially vulnerable because they’re all clones. They don’t produce viable seeds, so they’re grafted to new plants.
The lost variety is the Runts candy banana and it makes me sad that it’s gross
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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Its been working ok with apples
I misunderstood.
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.
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
Are you an AI?
Nope, all dirty fleshbag. I just like knowing things and hope others do too. :)
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Gros Michel and many other bananas are clones, too. So are apples.
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.
kind of like the other Macintosh
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What?
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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.
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
Agreed. I accidentally bought tropical antacids and like 50% of them are banana flavor. I’d rather just have indigestion
Blasphemy!
Hate to tell ya but I had the same inverted experience. “How come this gross artificial banana tastes nothing like bananas?! Ohhhh…”.
It does kinda drive me nuts though, not knowing what the real deal tastes like. Can only imagine, for you!
My introduction to banana flavor was the penicillin liquid medicine as a kid, I got in a bit of trouble drinking the whole bottle at night, and more trouble by doing it to every bottle I could find later (my siblings illness was a small price to pay). I have been chasing that high of flavor ever since. My parents tried to give me “real” bananas after but they are but a pale imitation that only dulls the edge of my craving.
ooh so that’s what that is
i heard an old man mysteriously whisper “enjoy your bananas while they still exist, young person” to me at the supermarket a while ago and i didn’t know what they were talking about but they sounded very serious so i didn’t doubt them.
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
Don’t forget the pesticides that are so fucked up that the farmers end up infertile
I can’t buy non organic bananas, I feel like I am castrating someone. But realistically probably organic also isn’t that much better.
Every corporation is practically lying because the only real truth is so riddickulously complicated that even doing research does not ever give a thorough understand of their true action, let alone their actual intent.
Corporations are the blood vein of the vampiritic nature of capitalism.
Mani Mani is the blood itself.
Bananas are a monoculture. One good, hard hitting, lethal pathogen could extinct them.
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.
We called all banana as Pisang (indonesia). Do you know which specific variety you tasted?
Unfortunately I don’t. I know it was Indonesian and the bananas were thick and tightly bunched, but that’s all.
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.
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Goat banana post
I was told a story of a chef I knew about a small, purple banana that tastes like vanilla.
Did they say that the chef made them close their eyes before tasting it?
What is your favorite banana and how do I get it?
A tie between the Gros Michel and the Cuban Red. I was staying with a friend in Hawaii when I went on my banana bender, but both look to be intermittently available for delivery online at Miami Fruit.
But banana tastes like crap. Give me one that doesn’t taste like a banana.
So get this. Have you ever had Runts candy? If you or any other readers have, then you’ve likely noted that the banana candy just doesn’t taste right. That’s because it’s based on the original mass production banana, the Gros Michel, AKA the “Big Mike”. That’s a proper banana. Cavendish is shit but it’s the only type most people have eaten. They’ve eaten shit. Banana shit.
The following may not apply to you but may for others:
Saying you hate bananas when you have only tried cavendish is like saying you hate beer when you’ve only tried warm, flat Keystone Light.
…again.
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.
That’s worse than a monoculture. 😬
Just like rubber trees.
even one bite makes gives me such an insane stomach pain and nausea that I’m crying in my bed for three days. and it’s not stomach cramps, it just feels like my entire belly will explode and nothing comes out. years ago i could eat them just fine, but now it’s also pears and berries…
Get an allergy test. Banana allergies (even though that doesn’t necessarily sound like one) are associated with other allergies,including some medications.
So…you might want to know in advance.
If it is not that then try biobananas once. A lot of people are sensitive to the pesticides used.
you forgot
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