Bananas make my tummy hurt.
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Don't they cost, like, 10 dollars a piece?
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.
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?"
This is Arrested Development erasure. 
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
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.
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.
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
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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.
one bad thing: chlordecone
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.
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.
Ray Comfort: DID SOMEONE SAY BUNANUHR?!
you forgot
- delicious
I strongly dislike their taste and am allergic to them, but yeah that are individual problems. Also.. why is high kalium so important?
Aside from the explosions I think kalium a good precaution against cramps in sports.
Because you can make explosives out of that.
Potato and cauliflower are both higher in potassium btw
Potato is a real superfood
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