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-Kirk Cameron

[–] Magnus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

You can shove them up your arse...also a great benefit.

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 272 points 1 week ago (17 children)

One single plant, cloned thousands of times. Easily devastated by disease.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

thousands

Millions at least

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 166 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you live in a northern climate, you have to rely on a very complicated and expensive delivery system that will supply you with this fruit that can only be grown in the tropics. And the only way to keep it economical is to create an economy where food prices are artificially kept low because first world countries systematically suppress developing countries that grow bananas into becoming stable economies that would actually provide better wages for farmers and workers who would raise the price of bananas.

We have cheap bananas because we don't mind living in a world where we abuse farmers and workers to work for pennies to supply us in the first world with cheap bananas.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 91 points 1 week ago (17 children)

And just to rub salt into the wound, someone created a clothing store named after the political corruption imposed on those countries to accomplish this: Banana Republic.

I can't think of what an equivalent would be in terms of offensive marketing, Starving Irish brand potatoes? A Saudi demolition company named after September 11th? A clothing store inspired by antebellum southern US clothes? I guess some companies still use imagery of indigenous people for tobacco products. That seems like it's in the same vein.

Generally, I try to focus on how beautiful life can be, but damn if there isn't a crowd trying to make it ugly for others.

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[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 114 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 94 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

...zero mess? What exactly are you doing with the "wrapper?" You know you're not supposed to eat it, right?

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 86 points 1 week ago

Throw it on the ground as a trap for the one walking behind you

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[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 85 points 1 week ago (14 children)

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.

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[–] attinio@feddit.it 46 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Don't they cost, like, 10 dollars a piece?

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