I keep seeing “green banana” posts but I saw the video this is from and those are plantains
Even better lol
Are they? The picture looks like bananas to me. Where I’ve lived in the states though plantains are usually less rounded and longer. They probably vary just the same and I’m not use to seeing it
Let me rephrase that… They say they are plantains in the video.
Ah, nice to know that he’s rich enough to have that option.
saw a vid of an american woman in an english supermarket and she commented how green the bananas were which amused me you buy five or eight bananas to last the whole week right
Oh man, they go bad so quick round here
Because you can only buy yellow bananas, or?
Yes, only yellow. I don’t think I’ve ever made full use of a bunch
Banana bread is the secret. Even extremely brown bananas make great bread!
Peel and chop the bananas into smallish chunks and then freeze them. And you can blend the frozen bananas with some cocoa powder for really delicious chocolate nice cream.
I’ve had bananas that seem to go directly from green to brown. Not often but it was pretty annoying.
It’s true, I don’t want to eat green bananas, but I also don’t want to eat brown bananas.
australianbananas.com.au says brown bananas are great for bbq tho and im willing to chance that because that does sound excellent
I mean these are kinda excessively green. They really shouldn’t be harvested this early but then again transporting them across the world to NYC requires a very early harvest to avoid spoilage.
Once you taste a banana that was harvested when it was ripe you’ll never want another supermarket banana again.
Unfortunately I live almost 3000 miles away from where bananas grow so I’m not having a “harvested ripe” banana any time soon.
This asshole doesn’t know that a beautiful bunch o ripe banana hiding deadly black tarantula
Irie, mon. Daylight come, and me wanna go home.
He prefers pink banana from the government
Tiny orange ones, more like
Beautiful!
If you eat a banana in Europe or the U.S., there’s a 99% chance it was harvested just as green as the one in the picture.
Today, bananas are harvested unripe in their countries of origin because they’re much easier to transport that way, and they’re then fumigated with ethylene in large ripening facilities at their destination to allow them to ripen further. This way, the logistics process is less stressful during transport, and the customer gets a perfectly ripe banana at the store… though I don’t understand why they used bananas for the photo that were taken out of the ripening house too early.
Not far from where we used to live in the UK there was a road sign directing you to the “Banana depot”
This be one of the places you speak of
Did it always have a nice sweet smell in the area?
I used to live close to a chocolate factory. Sometimes it smelled ok and a lot of people commented they like it. To me most of the time it smelt like burnt chocolate, which was kind of sickening.
Wondering if ripening possibly rotting bananas in large quantities would have a similar effect.
Not a smell at all. I never got really close, but nothing wafted across the lands
I dunno, we buy green bananas all the time as different people in the house have different banana ripeness preferences. We also eat heaps and buying them green means less trips to the shops
In the US, bananas often hit the store shelves this color. They will ripen quickly over the following 3-4 days. You can decide to buy the ones that have ripened on the shelves or buy greener ones and let them ripen at home. Unripe bananas have several culinary uses, so it’s good to have this option
I much prefer to have a range of ripeness when buying bananas, otherwise you need to wait 4 days for them to ripen and now you have 24 hours to eat 8 bananas.
…no one on Planet Earth doesn’t know this.
We never met mr. Mcintosh, i’m mr. Cavendish.
Ironically, there’s a phrase for someone who’s so old and out of touch that they might as well be on death’s doorstep:
“Don’t buy green bananas.”
(In the South it’s often used in a self deprecating way: “let’s just say I don’t buy green bananas.”)
Ain’t no one got time for that shit.
I’m starting in on the first banana on the way home from the store. Gotta be quick with those fuckers. Otherwise it’s a day later and you’re like “welp, gotta make bread I guess.” Eyes tearing up. It’s like a funeral for those little bitches.
You’re tempted to switch these with a fresh one from the store if you have any kids in the house, like you did when the goldfish died. I can’t tell a kid the banana went to go live on a farm upstate.
Dude, break off a couple yellows, grab some greens for later.
Tell me you’re too rich to do your own grocery shopping/cooking without telling me.
I know they ripen much more after etc.
But I was wondering do you guys frequently buy them this green still? The ones on offer around me are way more yellow already.
Maybe it’s a difference in how supermarkets in the USA vs Switzerland do logistics or something, that’s why I’m asking.
I buy for my family of four for the week. I have to buy them in a gradient from just-ripe yellow, to green as can be. Every time I hit the store I buy some that are this green.
Estonian here, they usually show up moderately green in the store, oftentimes they’ll still have the yellows from the last batch out when they bring in the fresh green ones. I prefer them a little green, I don’t actually like yellow.
Just to add a data point, I don’t know how green they come in the US
Also the ones on the photo are apparently plantains, which are much greener than cavendish bananas. Our regular bananas are never THIS green.
It varies. The bananas in the picture are particularly green though.
Get him to guess the price
I’m guessing 14 cents a banana?
For one banana? Can’t be more than, what, like $10?
Was I right?
AFAIK you are still right. But my knowledge may just be outdated.
Yet they’re the same people who will line up in droves at a freedom field station
