The fuck aren’t we growing these kinds of bananas everywhere in overly exploited republics and then importing them into the US? Fuck the gros michel, fuck these petty banana snack foods, I want a banana that I can eat as a meal.
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.
I feel like the solution is probably more local banana
We all dream of thicc local bananas.
It’s a tropical fruit. It doesn’t grow well in temperate areas.
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.
Considering the size of the Canadian tomato industry (all greenhouse), it does seem like bananas should also solve. Just bananas can’t pack as densely as tomatoes, but maybe throw one banana tree in every dozen rows of tomatoes or something. A girl can dream.
Banana trees take up a lot of space. And heating greenhouses would be very expensive.
I want a banana split with one of these bad boys like a bread bowl.
Putting the boat in banana boat
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.
They’re more than likely not new, so we can assume there’s some other reason they’re not as good. Taste is the most obvious factor to be the culprit.
It’s more likely they ship poorly. Same reason the tastiest tomato or strawberry varieties are not the ones grown commercially.
Jesus.
Imma be single forever.
Do they taste better tho? The bigger the fruit, the more bland they are in my experience.
Good point. Just look at the raspberry and the pineapple.
Cab anyone attest to how these things taste? And is it possible to get one outside of Hawaii?
Yeaaaah that’s $177 for a banana, I’m good
Tbf, you’re buying an 8-10 pound box of them, which, according to the images, is more than likely at least around a dozen of them.
Still expensive, but it’s somewhere in the ballpark of $10-20 per banana rather than a single $177 banana.
Interesting that the flavor profile says nothing about the flavor, only the texture.
Here’s a video of a family tasting the banana and describing the flavor.
tl;dw: The flavor is similar to Cavendish. One person thought it was sweeter and had “more banana” flavor. One person didn’t feel that was the case. The texture was described as “thick and chewy,” and not as “fluffy” as the Cavendish. Overall they liked it.
It is sad that while there are so many interesting banana varieties all around the world, only two of them ship for crap. In addition to cool-sounding fruity varieties, one variety is so starchy it used to be the base starch the diet of local people instead of a grain, how neat is that?
Forget banana varieties, you’re missing so many different fruits that aren’t imported just because it doesn’t travel well.
I moved to Taiwan and found out there is a completely different avocado that is creamer. There is pineapple that is 10 times sweeter and doesn’t fuck up your tongue after a few pieces. You can even eat the core.
Mango season just started and there are 2 different kinds. One is (extremely)sweet and the other is sweet and sour.
500 kinds of mangos. 2000 kinds of apples…
There are also many awsome natural species, like the short one with pink fruits that peel themselves when ripe (Musa velutina): https://www.google.com/search?q=musa+velutina&client=firefox-b-m&sca_esv=0d9b9ff4180b1131&sca_upv=1&channel=ts&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiO77mWg9OFAxV0zQIHHZrRC0YQ_AUIBigB&biw=342&bih=642#
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Thanks!
Us gentlemen being outclassed by fuckin fruit. Life is cruel
BANAN
BANGNANA
“of course I don’t miss my ex” she says 😭
Big banachode.
when i say i deal big bananas, this is what i mean 😎
A cheater banana is a great banana and its great because its swole because its swooooole
