Gonna try it with Gerber's banana baby food, hope this works.
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
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Bananas (or at least, commercially viable, cheap, mass-producable and able to be bought in store bananas) have been wiped out once already.
In the 1930's, the most popular banana type was the Gros Michel.
By the 1960's it had been replaced by the Cavendish - what you think of as a 'banana'.
The reason for this is not taste - the Gros Michel is bigger, sweeter, quicker to grow and generally considered a 'better' Banana. The Gros Michel was wiped out by the Panama Disease. The world production of bananas basically ground to a halt in the space a of a few years. Only at the last minute did they find the Cavendish to replace the Gros Michel.
Things have continued on fine for the past 50-odd years, but a new strain of Panama disease has been found - one which atacks the Cavendish types. At the moment it's limited to asia and Northern Australia, but if it ever reaches Latin America, it could bring and end to the availablity of the banana in the stores as you think of it now.
Bananas (or at least, commercially viable, cheap, mass-producable and able to be bought in store bananas) have been wiped out once already.
In the 1930's, the most popular banana type was the Gros Michel.
By the 1960's it had been replaced by the Cavendish - what you think of as a 'banana'.
The reason for this is not taste - the Gros Michel is bigger, sweeter, quicker to grow and generally considered a 'better' Banana. The Gros Michel was wiped out by the Panama Disease. The world production of bananas basically ground to a halt in the space a of a few years. Only at the last minute did they find the Cavendish to replace the Gros Michel.
Things have continued on fine for the past 50-odd years, but a new strain of Panama disease has been found - one which atacks the Cavendish types. At the moment it's limited to asia and Northern Australia, but if it ever reaches Latin America, it could bring and end to the availablity of the banana in the stores as you think of it now.
Bananas (or at least, commercially viable, cheap, mass-producable and able to be bought in store bananas) have been wiped out once already.
In the 1930's, the most popular banana type was the Gros Michel.
By the 1960's it had been replaced by the Cavendish - what you think of as a 'banana'.
The reason for this is not taste - the Gros Michel is bigger, sweeter, quicker to grow and generally considered a 'better' Banana. The Gros Michel was wiped out by the Panama Disease. The world production of bananas basically ground to a halt in the space a of a few years. Only at the last minute did they find the Cavendish to replace the Gros Michel.
Things have continued on fine for the past 50-odd years, but a new strain of Panama disease has been found - one which atacks the Cavendish types. At the moment it's limited to asia and Northern Australia, but if it ever reaches Latin America, it could bring and end to the availablity of the banana in the stores as you think of it now.
thanks, the new yorker
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no, we can't
who are we to decide to bring back a failed species?
the hubris of our technology would be our downfall
it'd be like Jurassic Park, but with bananas
no, we can't
who are we to decide to bring back a failed species?
the hubris of our technology would be our downfall
it'd be like Jurassic Park, but with bananas
clever banana
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
edited March 2011
Uh... bananas are sterile. There are no seeds. It is impossible to cultivate 'resistance'. Every banana of the same type you eat is a genetic clone of every other banana of that type.
They are trying to come up with a 'new' banana to replace the Cavendish and remain resistant to Panama disease, mostly through genetic manipulation, I think. But I have no idea how that's going, and consumers tend to be resistant to change.
Also, Gros Michel still exist in a few places (mostly islands in the Carribean). They're just not possible to be grown in sufficient numbers to sate the world markets.
Uh... bananas are sterile. There are no seeds. It is impossible to cultivate 'resistance'. Every banana of the same type you eat is a genetic clone of every other banana of that type.
They are trying to come up with a 'new' banana to replace the Cavendish and remain resistant to Panama disease, mostly through genetic manipulation, I think. But I have no idea how that's going, and consumers tend to be resistant to change.
Also, Gros Michel still exist in a few places (mostly islands in the Carribean). They're just not possible to be grown in sufficient numbers to sate the world markets.
And where can you get them? Because all you did was link to the wiki article explaining what they are. I'm pretty sure they're almost impossible to get in the west.
And where can you get them? Because all you did was link to the wiki article explaining what they are. I'm pretty sure they're almost impossible to get in the west.
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No one tell Campion about Gros Michel and the Panama Disease.
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Oh, phewf
I hate bad things!
Panama Disease is the name of a heavy metal band whose whole schtick is hating on bananas. Like, they really hate bananas. They have banana burnings.
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Maybe leave the peel on.
MAGIC
I don't stick things up my butt btw.
In the 1930's, the most popular banana type was the Gros Michel.
By the 1960's it had been replaced by the Cavendish - what you think of as a 'banana'.
The reason for this is not taste - the Gros Michel is bigger, sweeter, quicker to grow and generally considered a 'better' Banana. The Gros Michel was wiped out by the Panama Disease. The world production of bananas basically ground to a halt in the space a of a few years. Only at the last minute did they find the Cavendish to replace the Gros Michel.
Things have continued on fine for the past 50-odd years, but a new strain of Panama disease has been found - one which atacks the Cavendish types. At the moment it's limited to asia and Northern Australia, but if it ever reaches Latin America, it could bring and end to the availablity of the banana in the stores as you think of it now.
What, you think you're better then everyone else?
No I just don't think I'd very much enjoy it.
If I thought I would I might give it a shot.
But no bananas.
Holy shit.
thanks, the new yorker
surely the old Panama Disease can't still be rampaging around the world
why not try and bring them back, maybe cultivate them to have greater resilience this time
we can do this people
we have the technology
who are we to decide to bring back a failed species?
the hubris of our technology would be our downfall
it'd be like Jurassic Park, but with bananas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana
clever banana
They are trying to come up with a 'new' banana to replace the Cavendish and remain resistant to Panama disease, mostly through genetic manipulation, I think. But I have no idea how that's going, and consumers tend to be resistant to change.
Also, Gros Michel still exist in a few places (mostly islands in the Carribean). They're just not possible to be grown in sufficient numbers to sate the world markets.
look, I don't know how bananas work, ok
I'm not some banana expert
like some people
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWCBOsJr-w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3oFVAyAEWs&
And where can you get them? Because all you did was link to the wiki article explaining what they are. I'm pretty sure they're almost impossible to get in the west.
There are places on the internet.
http://www.bananas.org/f2/gros-michel-8776.html
also, rude titties
Coran Attack!
hypnotizing