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[-] Geodad@lemmy.world 54 points 5 days ago

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

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 88 points 5 days 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.

[-] gajahmada@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago

We called all banana as Pisang (indonesia). Do you know which specific variety you tasted?

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago

Unfortunately I don't. I know it was Indonesian and the bananas were thick and tightly bunched, but that's all.

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