And yet supermarkets wrap them in plastic on a polystyrene tray........

The French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe are heavily contaminated with chlordecone,[19] following years of its massive and unrestricted use on banana plantations: primarily against Cosmopolites sordidus.[20][21] Despite a 1990 ban on the substance in mainland France, the economically powerful banana planters lobbied intensively to obtain a waiver to keep using Kepone until 1993. They argued that no alternative pesticide was available, which has since been disputed. After the 1993 ban, the banana planters were discreetly granted derogations to use their remaining stocks, and a 2005 report prepared by the French National Assembly states that after the 1993 ban was imposed, the chemical was illegally imported to the islands under the name Curlone, and continued to be used for many years.[9] Since 2003, local authorities in the two islands have restricted the cultivation of various food crops because the soil is badly contaminated by chlordecone. A 2018 large-scale study by the French public health agency, Santé publique France, shows that 95% of the inhabitants of Guadeloupe and 92% of those of Martinique are contaminated by the chemical.[22] Guadeloupe has one of the highest prostate cancer diagnosis rates in the world.[23]

If you know how to read french, there is this comic book from Jessica Oublié, this is really well documented and sadly amazing to read, there are lots of french colonization implications in this story, obviously. The other comic about caribbean colonization by Jessica Oublié is also very impressive work.

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.

Easy. The taste and the texture. Awful.

Honeybee alarm pheromone smells exactly like bananas.

If you're a beekeeper you either already know about it or can test it. Just make sure you're in a bee suit, they will attack you.

Its almost as good as potato!

I like how the person is placing a banana to show scale/size.

The massive amounts of pesticides they spray on the banana plantations is pretty bad.

What's with the weird censoring of the post metadata? Do we not want to credit the original poster for some reason?

We are one minor mutation of a common banana disease away from having to get an entirely new kind of banana, and frankly we are not prepared for that.

The Cavendish banana is a monoculture that your grandkids will never know, the same way that you’ve (very probably) never had a Gros Michel.

• comes in its own wrapper
• zero mess, zero cleanup, zero prep

Choose one.

Bananas make my tummy hurt.

The Bananas War