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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Has anyone else noticed that bananas are harder to open these days? |
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Location: South of most, North of few | :confused: Change in the meds, Jeff? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Tryopenin
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Location: GA USA | And they seem to have a bigger cob. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
And they seem to have a bigger cob. :D |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Apparently there is a very real threat that bananas will soon be extinct.
Yes! We Have No Bananas! |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Ever watch a monkey peel a banana? They start from the opposite end than we humans. They've probably been eating them longer than us. |
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Location: big island | ever watch a monkey recycle bananas? now that's just plain disgusting. |
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Location: GA USA | That's why I stopped eating monkey. |
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Location: UK | and they never get softer , and they dont taste of banana and i have kept a tomato in the fridge, by way of spiritual quest, for an entire summer and autumn and it was still rock hard and perfect looking but somehow the essence of tomato had gone from it , in fact it never had it , it was a souless tomato |
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Location: big island | but continue eating chittlin's cap'n? :rolleyes: |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Andrea:
and they never get softer , and they dont taste of banana and i have kept a tomato in the fridge, by way of spiritual quest, for an entire summer and autumn and it was still rock hard and perfect looking but somehow the essence of tomato had gone from it , in fact it never had it , it was a souless tomato This is why I married her... |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by Andrea:
and they never get softer, and they don't taste of banana The monkey or the banana?
Randy, I wish! Everybody I knew that would cook chittlins has died. But I will try to find a soul food restaurant that sells them and bring some to SSJamboree2 just for you. |
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Location: big island | i rest my case. (bring a case of 'em cap'n) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Cap'n walked right into that one... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Chilled Monkey Brains, my fav. |
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Location: UK | But I will try to find a soul food restaurant Thats it !! Soul food restaurants have stolen the souls of the empty hollow shells of british tomatos . |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | You're just opening them at the wrong end! I LEARNED to open bananas by watching the monkeys at the Stanley Park Zoo. (as I learned so many other skills I use to this day.) |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Cap'n walked right into that one... I know! I'm so dense that it never even occurred to me what I was saying, until I read Randy's response twice. Not the sharpest banana in the bunch. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by fillhixx:
You're just opening them at the wrong end! I LEARNED to open bananas by watching the monkeys at the Stanley Park Zoo. (as I learned so many other skills I use to this day.) Fillhixx. PooFlinger. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Come a little closer to the cage and say that! |
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and for those of you not gifted with natural talent...
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Location: Slightly northwest of Trader Jim | I find that the seedless one's are a pain to peel unless you boil them first. :D |
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Location: Gardnerville, NV | Now I'm lost; poo, bananas, or monkey brains? |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | When I worked at the Bronx Zoo, I actually saw the gorillas flinging their feces. They're sitting around bored looking at the zoo patrons. You can see in their eyes they're wondering what to do ... and then whamo ... a poo storm.
Pretty funny. I'm sure, if gorillas could laugh, they were. I did. (No I was not hit with gorilla feces) |
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Location: NJ | Getting back to your question:
". . Has anyone else noticed that bananas are harder to open these days? . ."
The banana that we in NorthAmerica consume is a variety called the Cavendish.
The Cavendish has slowly replaced the variety that we've been USED to over the years, the Grosmichel(French for "BigMichael").
The Cavendish was considered to be a far inferior variety to the Grosmichele. The problem was that the Grosmichele gradually started becoming wiped out by a fungal infestation call "PanamaDisease".
Hence, the switch to the less popular (but "heartier") Cavendish.
Grosmicheles ARE still available in localized areas, just not commercially.
There is now evidence that PanamaDisease is starting to affect Cavendish bananas in some growing areas, as well. Since bananas are perfect clones to it's predecessor, infestation can spread quickly & widely. The fungus hasn't spread to LatinAmerica . . . yet.
Note: Americans consume more bananas than apples/oranges combined.
- Courtesy of author Dan Koeppell - "Banana, the Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World"
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Location: AKRON, OHIO | " A POO STORM "
Sounds like a SONG coming on!!!
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Location: South of most, North of few | Maybe they could use that as a subject for a song at the Mermaid. Beal?? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Funny...
I was thinking about this thread as I listened to "FreshAir" and thought to myself, "Bummer about the plight of the lovable banana... glad, however, to know I'm not arthritic..."
Does this apply to pickle jars? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by gglide:
Sounds like a SONG coming on!!! Too *late*!
Could Elton John be the 'love child' of Donavan and Richard Simmons? ;)
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | When I worked at the Bronx Zoo, I actually saw the gorillas flinging their feces. Maybe gorillas are smarter than we give them credit for. I don't like sitting outside with a bunch of that stuff laying around either!!! :o |
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Location: NJ | Well, now that you mention it Jeffrey, . . ever since US-made pickle jars migrated from the all-rubber gasket to silicone . . . . . |
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