• 2 years ago
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    This has *got* to be my favorite fruit.

    * Good for debugging.
    * Good for measurements.
    * Good for innuendo.
    * Good for slapstick comedy.
    * Good for financial storage.

    … The list is just endless!
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  • 5 years ago
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    I heard that bananas are evolving or something like that and the bananas we eat today are completely different to the ones our grandparents ate.

    Anybody else think that's amazing?
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    • Silent Gamer
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      Editing … Cavendish is the most popular banana at the moment. It's the one you typically see in supermarkets and shops. They are all grown from the same strain. This happens with all fruit and veg. The more popular ones are kept and used to grow new crops, while the less popular ones get ignored. Eventually only one variety exists at a mainstream level. It makes for good profits, but leaves them susceptible to disease. Essentially we could lose massive quantities of crops to a single disease because all the plants are too genetically similar.
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    • Silent Gamer
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      Editing … Fun fact: the banana flavour you get in milkshakes and whatnot is the "original" banana flavour. i.e the variety we used to use. I think that species may have died out though.
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    • MasterCrash
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      Editing … I rather have those
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  • Nodley wrote his opinion about Banana
    5 years ago
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    The best fruit
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  • 6 years ago
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    Fuck these things, why do they make everything around them taste like bananas? They're like a virus.
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  • 9 years ago
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    I was trying to figure out what those delicious midget bananas from Vietnam are called and if we should have a seperate page for them on FL when I stumbled upon this interesting bit of information, which completely blew my mind btw:

    „Bananas cannot reproduce: the ones we eat are sterile hybrids. The only way that there are more bananas is that humans take offshoots from the stems of existing banana trees, transplant them, and allow them to grow into a tree of their own. It’s basically a cheap, low-tech version of cloning.”

    “Back in the 1950s, a fungus wiped out the top selling kind of banana in the world (called Gros Michael). It was the banana your grandparents ate. You eat the Cavendish, a different variety that replaced the Gros Michael. They look and taste different from another. Just like Gros Michael, all Cavendish are exactly alike.”
    - boingboing.net

    I love the internet.
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    • rockshard PhD
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      Editing … wait so I will never be able to taste the gros michael? I want to kill myself
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    • rockshard PhD
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      Editing … oh and I guess this is why they started the Noah's ark seed bank project
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    • Nodley
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      Editing … Big Mikes are still available, just not everywhere.
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    • WoodrowShigeru
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      Editing … Yup, I've read that too. If humankind goes extinct, so will the banana eventually.
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    • Nodley
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      Editing … How did monkeys survive before they turned into humans then?
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    • WoodrowShigeru
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      Editing … Bananas are younger than humans. Monkeys must have eaten something else … maybe humans. « The banana, however, is a freakish and fragile genetic mutant; one that has survived through the centuries due to the sustained application of selective breeding by diligent humans. Indeed, the "miraculous" banana is far from being a no-strings-attached gift from nature. Its cheerful appearance hides a fatal flaw— one that threatens its proud place in the grocery basket. The banana’s problem can be summed up in a single word: sex. » http://www.damninteresting.com/the-unfortunate-sex-life-of-the-banana/
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    • Nodley
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      Editing … Well, nobody can ever say the internet isn't interesting. I learned some cool stuff today.
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Alternative Names

Banaani F
Banan S
Banán C
Banan D
Banan P
Banana I
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