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Is the Banana Slipping Away?
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| March 16, 2014
| Steve Chapman
Posted on 03/16/2014 8:50:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
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posted on
03/16/2014 8:50:50 AM PDT
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Kaslin
To: Kaslin
I see an opportunity for genetic manipulation in the banana's future.
To: Kaslin
I like bananas but I’m not freakish about it.
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posted on
03/16/2014 8:55:27 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(God is not the author of confusion. 1 Cor 13: 33)
To: Kaslin; mikrofon; Charles Henrickson
This variety, which accounts for 95 percent of the bananas sold in the United States and Europe, is under siege by a disease that wiped out what was once the most popular banana, the Gros Michel, in the 1950s. On top of that, the Cavendish faces another virulent disease, plus a devastating fungus that has become resistant to fungicides. Bananas in Traumas.
To: Kaslin
I like bananas, especially cut up in some yogurt, but at 69 cents/pound? It wasn’t that long ago they were 39 cents/pound.
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posted on
03/16/2014 8:56:02 AM PDT
by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
To: Kaslin
wiped out what was once the most popular banana, the Gros Michel, in the 1950sI've heard that the Gros Michel tasted better than the Cavendish.
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posted on
03/16/2014 8:56:16 AM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: Kaslin
Banana Man to the rescue!
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posted on
03/16/2014 9:00:22 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: Kaslin
I voted for Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas when he ran for president in 1992.He went bananas.
To: Kaslin
Get used to eating or spiting out banana seeds. As the story says, their are many types, but perhaps the greatest impediment is the fact any non-hybridized banana will have seeds, and most would say: “Banana seeds, gross!!!”
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posted on
03/16/2014 9:07:51 AM PDT
by
nomad
To: Kaslin
daughters don’t compete is Pinewood derby’s
Girls can’t be Boy Scouts till they are 14
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posted on
03/16/2014 9:09:52 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
To: Graybeard58
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posted on
03/16/2014 9:10:34 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
03/16/2014 9:25:29 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
To: Kaslin
To: Kaslin; All
To: Kaslin
Here in Hawaii we grow our own, multiple varieties, and the growing season never stops. My freezer is currently loaded with 3 trees’ worth, and 2 more soon to be cut down.
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posted on
03/16/2014 9:43:20 AM PDT
by
jobim
(.)
To: Graybeard58
What I’ve noticed lately is that the bananas at the store don’t ripen normally when you get them home. They tend to remain hard and relatively tasteless.
We might as well change to US products like cranberries and blueberries and strawberries.
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posted on
03/16/2014 9:46:55 AM PDT
by
wildbill
To: martin_fierro
He shoots beaucoup bananas out of his nose and into her lap. Despite the rather peculiar Freudian implications of this, they both smile winningly and he then flies away, levitated apparently by bananas.
It's safe to say that he's rather fond of them, sort of a postmodern Southeast Asian St. Nick of bananas.
It's no wonder Dole signed the guy, he's like some sort of demigod for the banana-involved.
To: Kaslin
It would be ironic if, as we turn into a banana republic, the republic may have to go without bananas.
My late father loved bananas all of his life. Unfortunately during the last few years of his life, he wasn't allowed to eat them because of the potassium.
To: Kaslin
Somebody with real talent (not me) should write a song, an Ode To The Yellow Banana. They could use 12 string acoustic, and find a guy with a voice like Leo Kottke or Gordon Lightfoot.
To: MUDDOG
I've heard that the Gros Michel tasted better than the Cavendish.I've also heard that the "banana" flavors developed in candy and ice cream predate the Cavendish, which is why they taste somewhat odd to us, a bit too tart and not very "banana".
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posted on
03/16/2014 10:46:53 AM PDT
by
Rinnwald
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