Gros michel not looking so gros any more.
Cab anyone attest to how these things taste? And is it possible to get one outside of Hawaii?
Yeaaaah that’s $177 for a banana, I’m good
The fuck aren’t we growing these kinds of bananas everywhere in overly exploited republics and then importing them into the US? Fuck the gros michel, fuck these petty banana snack foods, I want a banana that I can eat as a meal.
We picked the Gros Michel (before it got decimated by Panama Disease) and now the Cavendish because they can be mass grown, harvested before they are ripe, shipped around the world with minimal special handling, be ripened locally, and can survive all that without getting blemished.
While there are plenty of other bananas, really only those varieties could do that. Bananas cost less than a buck per pound. Other varieties would have to be shipped by air with special handling and cost many times more.
I’d like to just grow a tree in my backyard. But I don’t live in the right climate. Or have a backyard.
