Interesting. Yet, I was thinking just the other day that bananas are pretty darn consistent in the fruit world.
 
You know how you'll get an orange sometimes, and it'll be completely dry? Or a peach that is really mealy? Or a mango that is nothing but a stringy dry mess? I thought to myself.......You rarely, if ever get a banana that is inedible. If it's the right color, it's usually pretty good. Pretty consistent quality-wise. Most other fruit is a crap-shoot.
 
 

Jeffiphone
Interesting. Yet, I was thinking just the other day that bananas are pretty darn consistent in the fruit world.
 
You know how you'll get an orange sometimes, and it'll be completely dry? Or a peach that is really mealy? Or a mango that is nothing but a stringy dry mess? I thought to myself.......You rarely, if ever get a banana that is inedible. If it's the right color, it's usually pretty good. Pretty consistent quality-wise. Most other fruit is a crap-shoot.
 
 

Costco bananas are the sweetest.

jbow
Lemme try that...
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/embed/Zgc5w-xyQa0[/tube]
 
 

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Jeffiphone
Interesting. Yet, I was thinking just the other day that bananas are pretty darn consistent in the fruit world.
 
You know how you'll get an orange sometimes, and it'll be completely dry? Or a peach that is really mealy? Or a mango that is nothing but a stringy dry mess? I thought to myself.......You rarely, if ever get a banana that is inedible. If it's the right color, it's usually pretty good. Pretty consistent quality-wise. Most other fruit is a crap-shoot.
 

That's because every banana we buy in North America is a clone.
 
Oranges, btw, are actually grown on lemon trees. No kidding. I studied up on it in hopes of planting oranges at my place in the Philippines. Turns out, it's a lot harder than I thought, so I'm sticking with coconuts & mangoes - and bananas. The bananas we grow over there are nothing like what's at Safeway. They're tiny, barely two mouthfuls each, but they grown in enormous bunches and we let them ripen naturally. Yum.

Hi,
 
In Recife, Brazil, there used to be on any of the beaches, many many many banana stores, and they sold just about anything, from ice cream, to sundae's to desserts to coffees, milk shakes and several other things that I can't even remember! I believe, at night some of those places even had steak with bananas, which nowadays is a famous recipe with a NY Steak.
 
I did see a sign once that listed about 75 things on it and on the bottom it said ... "we also serve the real thing!". But going through some 25 to 30 different kinds of bananas to make your choice? Insane!

You've had a Brazilian bananas???  Wow, that's a lot!  

Didn't watch the vid, but IIRC it's the same moronic lack of crop variety which wiped out a million Irish in the 1850's and caused another million to emigrate.
 
Sometime around 1955 I think it was, the single-variety banana of the time got completely decimated world-wide due to very similar reasons for the Irish potato famine; single variety + single disease/predator == goodbye entire crop.  They then substituted a new variety of banana to take its place, so the idiocy continues; all bananas are sterile clones which is what we're eating and sooner or later a new disease or predator will come along and wipe the table clean again.
 
You'd think people would learn something perhaps.

The banana problem apparently began even earlier than that. The popular novelty song "Yes, We Have No Bananas" from 1923 was inspired by a banana shortage.
 
I bought a bunch this morning, just in case they run out.
 
As for the Great Potato Famine, that kind of worked to our advantage. (By "our" I mean us Americans.) Had it not been for starving Irish folk in the 19th century, we might not have Conan O'Brien today.

No wonder the term "Gone bananas!" means "Gone crazy!" eh?