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Latyon t1_j0dc2qs wrote

Oh shit

Donkey Kong Country didn't just make that up

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KingArfer t1_j0dc5v7 wrote

Heard that bananas in the Philippines are much more flavorful than what we get in the US

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Blazearoo t1_j0dg34x wrote

Diddy Kong has entered the chat

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iamchristendomdotcom t1_j0dh004 wrote

With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the heck did you get that banana?

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Spicy_Cum_Lord t1_j0dhfud wrote

Replying to KingArfer (#939,099)

This is true for most tropical fruit. If you get it locally it's usually better than it would be if picked early, thrown in a box, and sent halfway around the world and thrown on store shelves.

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NomDeGuerrePmeDeTerr t1_j0dhlff wrote

We have them in kenya. There are many different types of bananas by the way.

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cdiamond10023 t1_j0dj45q wrote

Red bananas are grown in Tanzania. I toured a plantation.

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esdebah t1_j0dk8nu wrote

I hope Mitch Hedburg found out before he died. He just wanted to know where you got that banana?

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Hughesybooze t1_j0dkopf wrote

Oh that’s interesting. I’d only ever seen YELLOW ones before.

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RevolutionaryMove357 t1_j0dssib wrote

They have these at my grocery store in South Dakota, USA… the cute lil’ red ones. The innards looked the same as I recall. Taste was more earthy.

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joshwaynebobbit t1_j0e3kcu wrote

I'm one of those weirdos that hate bananas and never got the hype. Why have I been deprived of this seemingly superior alternative my whole life?

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oogeej t1_j0e3yc2 wrote

Only Diddy Kong can collect them.

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Aldeobald t1_j0e6f21 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#939,695)

I read somewhere that banana flavors, in candy/medicines/anything else, taste different because they were modeled on the Gros Michel. Whether or not that's true, I don't know

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Glen_The_Eskimo t1_j0e83g2 wrote

Replying to Aldeobald (#940,554)

I bought them from Miami fruit and they weren't anything special. If anything they are hardier and last longer, but don't taste anything like the candy. I think the Cavendish are slightly more astringent, the only real flavor difference I could tell. Honestly my favorite are manzano bananas, they have a much fruitier taste, just wish they were bigger.

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ryevermouthbitters t1_j0eaobl wrote

Replying to satanlovesducks (#939,295)

Where do people in this thread shop? You can buy red bananas at most halfway decent Asian groceries (H-Mart, for example), and sometimes they're even at Wegmans. It's not like they're some rare thing only known in villages near where they grow or something.

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Creative-Creme-3796 t1_j0eb3oo wrote

Replying to Spicy_Cum_Lord (#939,341)

It's true for most fruit of any kind. The tomatoes you get in store are nowhere near as flavorful as the ones you could grow in your backyard if (A) you had a backyard, and (B) you were willing to put in the effort.

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Vegan_Harvest t1_j0ec79m wrote

The truth is your local supermarket only has a tiny fraction of the fruit varieties that are out there.

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ACpony12 t1_j0eg6ad wrote

As much as it'd be nice to have all these other varieties available everywhere, I know suddenly importing them could make these bad for where they're coming from. Like, suddenly what is an cheap healthy food for the locals are suddenly in demand, so they're more expensive, and less available for them.

I could swear I read about something happening like that when "superfruits" like acai suddenly became popular.

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RexSueciae t1_j0eg9ge wrote

Replying to RevolutionaryMove357 (#939,829)

Yeah, I've eaten them too! Seen them several times in very ordinary grocery stores, not in large quantity but they exist. I do enjoy the taste. Only thing I don't like is that it's much harder to tell when a red banana is ripe. Since, y'know. Red.

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spoon_shaped_spoon t1_j0eloo8 wrote

Everytime I've been to Mexico I have found a different kind of banana, and they've all been pretty great

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hustlindustlin t1_j0eoyqa wrote

That's a comforting ray of knowledge.

Thanks!

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[deleted] t1_j0eswm6 wrote

The type of bananas we used to eat in the previous century do not exist anymore. They have all been replaced.

And as someone who ate plenty of bananas in the 70s and 80s, I can tell you they most definitely tasted different.

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Bigred2989- t1_j0evbxf wrote

First time I heard about these was reading "The Devil in the White City". Apparently they had these in America in the 1890s.

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i_lie_except_on_31st t1_j0evo42 wrote

Yeah and there're fucking blue ones that taste like fucking vanilla ice cream too but you can't get the fucking things anywhere.

This shit is bananas.

Fucking bananas.

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hmcfuego t1_j0ewfrs wrote

Replying to Glen_The_Eskimo (#940,640)

We started growing Gros Michel last year and a few other varieties as well. Bananas ripened on the plant and picked while warm from the afternoon sun are already 100 times more amazing than regular bananas, but being a Gros Michel on top of that is biting into heaven.

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Lotharofthepotatoppl t1_j0f2aj4 wrote

Replying to ACpony12 (#941,033)

Yep. Açai, maybe quinoa, no doubt others as well. Any time some AnCiEnT eXoTiC sUpErFoOd gets big due to fad diet culture or whatever other bullshit, the people who depend on it suddenly can’t afford the food they need to survive. “Superfood” itself is such a bullshit title, unless you’re quoting Tremors 2: “They got into your damn superfood, Burt!”

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quackerzdb t1_j0f2ngy wrote

I bought them once. They were dry, not sweet at all, and tasteless. Granted, maybe the best bananas just don't make it to Canada.

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CarelessHisser t1_j0f3uh3 wrote

These are the uncommon ones you need to raid goblin nests for.

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[deleted] t1_j0f4v17 wrote

Oh u gon' lear some more today. There is also a banana called Blue Java which apparantly has a vanilla ice cream like creamy consistency and taste. There are 1,000 different species bananas, but not all are edible. Some also contain seeds.

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Sir-Viette t1_j0f7zqz wrote

I worked with a woman from New Ireland, which is an island in Papua New Guinea. She said that the bananas they grew at home were spectacular, actually juicy, as opposed to the dry mushy Cavendish bananas the rest of the world was used to.

Since then, tasting a banana from New Ireland has been on my bucket list.

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_Omegaperfecta_ t1_j0fqhup wrote

QUICKLY NOW! We must exploit this into extinction!

It is the human way.

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MetroWestJP t1_j0g25cl wrote

My uncle used to a have a banana tree in his back yard in Fort Lauderdale that grew short, fat bananas with a kind of pinkish magenta colored peel and pale orange flesh on the inside that tasted kind of citrusy. I don't know what that variety was called, but they weren't bad.

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hrudnick t1_j0ghosx wrote

I haven't been able to find them for years.

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BigWhiteAngus t1_j0gjtu7 wrote

They used to sell them when I was a kid at stores like Kroger. I remember seeing them. They disappeared before my early teen years.

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Pythonx135 t1_j0goryq wrote

WARNING. If you don't know when they are ripe and eat them, they will be very bitter. Let them ripen till the outer skin looks dry and the stem is dark. It will also start smelling yummy

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soda-jerk t1_j0gtg0g wrote

There are also pink pineapples, and yellow watermelons.

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UghWhyDude t1_j0h3g5c wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#939,695)

> India

If you're in the US and happen to have an Indian store near you, you can get some of these because they taste fantastic!

I use the nendran variety of bananas to make banana chips or a Kerala sweet snack called Pazham Pori, which is essentially a banana fritter.

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gdub695 t1_j0h6hqx wrote

Replying to Aldeobald (#940,760)

I tried to grow them in North Carolina, unfortunately we’re like 1 or 2 zones too far north for them to survive the winter without being covered by mulch. I’ve kept an offshoot tree in the garage through the winter for the last few years to plant again in the spring, but unfortunately the community pool drain was pointed directly into the backyard this year and by the time the HOA had done anything about it the tree was practically dead from the pool chemicals

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SweetCosmicPope t1_j0hbdzl wrote

I bought some red bananas recently because I’d had them when I was younger and they were super sweet and delicious. Then when I peeled it and ate it it was very bitter and starchy. Was very disappointed.

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SaintUlvemann t1_j0hf0os wrote

Replying to Lotharofthepotatoppl (#941,941)

Açaí is the dumbest superfood. It is delicious, don't get me wrong, it's a perfectly normal fruit. But that's the problem: it's a perfectly normal fruit.

But they’re touted for things like vitamin A and calcium content. Well here’s a link to the USDA’s Food Data Central database, specifically their record for a fortified açaí berry drink. (Fortified, meaning, it’s had nutrients added above and beyond what the berry itself contains.) Amounts are given on a per 100 gram basis.

  • Vitamin A: 9698 IU
  • Calcium: 19 mg

Here’s the link for carrots:

  • Vitamin A: 16706 IU
  • Calcium: 33 mg

That fortified açaí berry drink still has less vitamin A and calcium in it than fucking carrots do. Are carrots the next superfood? No, because they're not fancy, pretty, or exotic, which is what really makes a superfood a superfood.

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Lotharofthepotatoppl t1_j0hlfjr wrote

Replying to SaintUlvemann (#946,164)

I’ve seen blueberries advertised as a superfood. They’ll call anything a superfood if only because it has a greater proportion of some specific nutrient compared to most other foods, but that’s just because it’s a different goddamned fruit or whatever! It’s a bullshit, meaningless buzzword cooked up by some jackoff somewhere who wanted to get in on America’s obsession with eating ourselves to better health while making no other changes.

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zxof t1_j0kbfp0 wrote

There are a thousand varieties of banana btw.

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pheonix940 t1_j0ovgtl wrote

Replying to MN_Lakers (#939,798)

Might help of you name specific chains at the very least. Fruit is highly regional. In south Florida I got tons of citrus, in ohio we have 15 varieties of apples and pears in every store.

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