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00LimaRomeo
Sooooo, can we get the seeded bananas? If you're willing to eat custard apples, then seeded bananas shouldn't be a problem.
henriekth
This is why it's not common for monkeys to eat bananas in the wild.
jjm152
There is no such thing as a 'wild banana'. There are a couple of ancestor genera, but they are not 'bananas'. Bananas are 100% cultivated.
Weselskills
Castrated bananas
Cheomesh
I've always wanted to try a tree-ripe banana.
imagerboy
Damn nature, you nasty
Zeldaman420
Seedless.
CasualMcFly
Trypophobia
thisisabigdecision
Unfortunately yes *cringe*
atd10
That looks like mold...
ASDFFDSAASDFASDF
https://i.postimg.cc/CSTqFpQ5/banana-x-ray-by-jaclav-d37w7c1-pre.jpg
EndersElixir
Oldskoolunchbox
You're not fooling me...those are spiders.
AlyeskaHeaven
I was thinking mold
dicklep1ck
Na those are just blueberry banana's
AmericanOmar
Today’s fruits aren’t as good for you either. Due to selective breeding most have 100x the amount of sugar than in the past.
benana12
Are they tarantulas eggs?
TallonMaguire
besn
fadingtheory
More like nutless bananas
pacey5714
The name of my member after being on Prozac
SofticeAllan
More like seedless bananas
WhatTheDormouseSaid
Girlnanas
imoutofnames
But they're also boneless.
vandude9090
boneless jungle sausage
frostpatches
Fuck you.... Get the fuck outta fuckin ell. Wut!?
LordSerapis
I don't like your peaches / They are full of stones / But I like bananas / Because they have no bones!
playingwithknives
should i be concerned for the general populations’s intelligence or impressed by how many ppl can run for so long with one joke...?
funkmoth
Also, banana "trees" aren't trees at all!
pkspidermonkey
Correct, it's classified as a herb ?
philosoraptor1000
Well... Not with that attitude.
hirvipelko
WOW!!! I didn't know these banana's still existed. I thought they were long gone
standards
There are dozens of wild varieties. The ones you see now in stores are the SECOND cultivar. The first were wiped out by Panama Disease.
Pseudosim
Same, which makes this post a little suspect to me.
NotSoSmartAlek
just not commercially farmed is all.
MrWobblyHead
A banana is botanically classed as a berry
NotSoSmartAlek
I thought it was an herb?
RamonaQ
That's bonkers!
YouMayFindThisMildlyInteresting
bubblytangerine
Username checks out. +1
jhedn
Yeah well botanically most berries aren't, so botany can suck a fat one.
Idontlikeolives
Botanically most fruits are berries.
astrangehop
Blueberries are though! ANd milk is a "food" and not a beverage 'cordin to the FDA.
genericuser010180
Lemme get that shit...... BONELESS
ASDFFDSAASDFASDF
nope https://i.postimg.cc/CSTqFpQ5/banana-x-ray-by-jaclav-d37w7c1-pre.jpg
GodCommentMaker
And a 2 L coke
Worldf1re
2L machine ?roke, we got 1L tho
SirSage
D E A D A S S ! !
TheManInABlackSuit
Boy do I have a song for you! https://youtu.be/l-QkMaCS7CU
Ryebread91
Yo what pizza got bones in it?
ImperialWatch
do you guys have any b O n E l E s S pizza?
neur0sis
https://youtu.be/ud1JXqGWPvU
genericuser010180
Yiissssssssss......... BONELESS
CampEvill
Wild fruits and vegetables are monstrosities. Thank you science for giving us beautiful food.
Monkeyfighter
Take that, anti-GMO people!
astrangehop
I mean, most of them are. Still there's wild Strawberries, blueberries, chestnuts, Sloes, coconuts, dates, coffee, sesame seeds, kelp,
pontiacgirl75
also wild hazelnuts too, and wild raspberries
astrangehop
asparagus, blackberries, etcetc.
NotSoSmartAlek
can we get asparagus that doesn't make your junk stink?
Woolytop
????
astrangehop
Maybe, there's also 30 percent of humans that can't smell it anyway
Cajunfox99
Per my husband, the banana flavoring, which doesn't taste like banana is because we caused that banana to go extinct due to monoculture.
astrangehop
and also, sabotage.
Soylencer
Yes, correct.
Ulthirm
The panama disease wiped a large portion of them out, but you can still get the banana in small farms
Ulthirm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana this is the banana
Ulthirm
The theorized banana I should say, we DONT know. Same as how we dont know what the flavor of original bubble gum was. (Dude died taking it
Ulthirm
to his grave)
AlyeskaHeaven
Small farms where?
Ulthirm
Jamaica sold them when we visited.
AlyeskaHeaven
Now I want to go
NotSoSmartAlek
There's farms of it on Hawai'i
elethomel
not really. this is a common myth http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140829-the-secrets-of-fake-flavours
bubblytangerine
I thought they went extinct. Today I learned: I was wrong.
DavidWong7
Well, they almost went extinct due to monoculture and the artifical flavouring tastes a lot like Gros Michel. 1/2
DavidWong7
And the article states only that they don't think it's where the flavour originated, not really disproving it. 2/2
elethomel
all bananas contain isoamyl acetate, which is synthesized for artificial banana flavoring
Arkanrais
from what I remember, a banana plague hit in the mod 20th century that wiped out all the bananas which the flavour is made after
Muffyns
so how do we get banana flavouring ??
bubblytangerine
Food scientists, of course.
DavidWong7
Isoamyl acetate is prepared by the acid catalyzed reaction (Fischer esterification) between isoamyl alcohol and glacial acetic acid... -Wiki
wherethehorriblethingsare
If you ever do happen to find a seed in a grocery store banana you should probably store it and call a biologist. They'll explain why.
crewdelis
the little black specks in the cavendish banana are technically seeds but they are infertile and cannot grow.
Snooj
So wait, are you saying bananas cause infertility?
RamonaQ
I was wondering abou that....
DinosaurOnABus
Why?
chewbakken
.
Snooj
No one here is an actual biologist. You have to call one.
thundercactus
because the massive commercialization of bananas has resulted in genetic homogeneity, which is very bad for the survival of the banana.
astrangehop
You're far more likely to find tarantulas in a bunch of bananas.
UkuleleMonster
Daylight come and me wanna go home...
Faustbear
Banantulas
jerkcore
Screenshotted
CatatonicCowMoo
If I could draw, I'd draw a tarantula with bananas for legs.
Faustbear
I can draw. I might do this.
wherethehorriblethingsare
Dot for updates.
CatatonicCowMoo
Please do! I need this in my life!
klean9
EVERY fruit and vegetable are GMO. You can thank Gregor Mendel for that!
FourFiveFire
[unenthusiastically] Thanks Greg...
ChickenChickenBurningBright
Well he forgot to fix the goddamn pomegranate. That shit ain't food, it's floor stain.
demolitionlover09
Who knew The Mountain was so good at farming?
CaptainCale
Damn Catholics.
turalyawn
Goes back a lot longer than Mendel. Domesticated grains go back thousands and thousands of years and they are also GMO.
fencer1964
No. They’re not. They’re selectively bred. GM moves genes between unrelated organisms, breeding selects what’s already there.
SpaceDriver7
Please stop. Hybrids and GMO are not the same thing.
ticktockbent
Is that the GM in GMO? Gregor Mendel Original?
CongratsYouAreHereNow
Gregor Mendel Otolaryngologist. He was a nose doctor and decided that consuming fruits nasally was more nutritious, but easier without seeds
ButtsexIsMotherNaturesCondom
Awesome. Yes.
FilamentBuster
Genetically modified I think
IncorrektGramerNazi
Wooooosh
goawayprofile
Over your head lol
astroidclementine27
ticktockbent
sigh
eightytwoeightytwoeightytwo
please tell Gregor the avocado still needs some work
GrundyScrubber
Where was Gregor Mendel when I tried my first guava?!?!
clutchthepearls
Dead
worldsbiggestnickelbackfan
Yeah, like for a while
Fennek04
He was a monk. So i guess doing monk stuff
NachoPete
Monking around.
Cheomesh
Well...no, that was old news before he came along.
RelartOfGivia
Cross-bred
CongratsYouAreHereNow
As opposed to the humble, crotch bred, human
CongratsYouAreHereNow
Banana bred
Iankill
Which is genetic modification
honkyturduckin
Luther Burbank as well
elethomel
GMO is defined as meaning the product of modern genetic engineering techniques.
elethomel
it's an industry euphemism created to raise the very misconception you have restated
elethomel
just read the first sentence of the wiki article on gmo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_organism
jadams999
It’s important to distinguish between cross bred and modified in a lab, though
Rumadon444
why?
blazera
I worked in a lab that did genetic testing and modifying. We bred for the genetics.
clucja1
But it doesn't actually make a difference. So maybe it's not that important.
BadgerMushroomSnake
Grave misconception of what GMO means. You'll never input bacterial DNA in a plant by selective breeding. Splicing and biobalistic do.
bruhdudebruh
Found the retard
Chaimgoldbergenstein
People may downvote you, but it's true; the difference between selective breeding and GMOs is the introduction of foreign genetic material.
klean9
Chaimgoldbergenstein
And by the way, that's backed up by the definitions used by the EU, the WHO, the UN FAO, and the European Commission.
allhailyeti
Bacteria isnt the only way genes are inserted into a genome. Splicing/bacteria/vectors all accomplish the same thing in different ways
BadgerMushroomSnake
It's what I am saying
woodjoiner
You have a misconception of what GMO means. You don't need to put DNA from a different species in there to be GMO.
BadgerMushroomSnake
Biotech researcher here... You are not wrong but only in the American acception of the word GMO. A thing I just happened to learn.
BadgerMushroomSnake
Quite an amazing trick from the industry to deceive the public and change the narrative about GMOs imho
Chaimgoldbergenstein
Yes you do, that's the literal definition of GMO. Before you downvote fairies storm in, at least google "gmo definition." Please.
woodjoiner
Look up "Crisper/CAS9". Also, you could write the Bible by cut, copy, and paste only using Eminem lyrics. DNA is kind of like that.
easybrz
Search the definition of fucking there’s a lot more to it than what Webster’s puts in the description
fencer1964
Thank you Mr. Trump, but it turns out in the real world, words have actual meanings. It’s not just your opinion.
Chaimgoldbergenstein
The EU, WHO, UN FAO, and European commission all consider GMOs to be organisms which were altered in a way that 1/2
Talligan
GMO and breeding are two different things
Junktrunkjunkie
Yeah no amount of selective breed made your stawberries part frog.
Rebonack
Nah, you're wrong. You can look up the USDA's definitions if you like. Selective breeding and transgenic organisms are different things.
MarkPenrice
^ this. Hard. Please stop spreading this BS, people. GM isn't the boogeyman it's often made out to be, but it's NOT selective breeding.
Rebonack
USDA says they're the same thing. European Union says they aren't. One is okay with transgenic organisms, the other isn't.1/2
Rebonack
GMO is an imprecise term, transgenic organism is quite a bit more precise.
MarkPenrice
One is probably getting a hefty backhander from Monsanto. Science says the two things are distinct.
Rebonack
The EU is protecting its farmers with anti-biotech propaganda. This leads to starvation in Africa and Asia who believe said propaganda.
DieselWolf
They are not. One is solving a math problem with pen and paper, the other is using a calculator.
Pooprocketpower
Splicing flounder genes into a tomato is fundamentally different than selective breeding.
DieselWolf
Maybe so, but it adds additional natural resistances to the plant allowing for longer growing period. Something we couldn't do before.
Pooprocketpower
Yes, I know what the flounder gene does. Just saying that selective breeding and GMOs are fundamentally different.
MarkPenrice
Biology degree holder, dissertation involved GM plants. Sit down and STFU, you literally don't know what you're talking about.
MarkPenrice
One is simply nudging natural selection along a path thats advantageous to us, the other is cutting and pasting genes between different orgs
Rebonack
1) Artificial selection, not natural. By definition. 2) Many crop strains were made by blasting them with mutagens to get new phenotypes.
DieselWolf
I don't give a fuck how it came to be as long as more people can be fed properly. There are people starving out there. You think they care?
MarkPenrice
That's a nice additional line of argument you're shoehorning in there, but it's literally nothing to do with the point under discussion.
Isatronium
Apparently they do. https://reason.com/archives/2017/09/05/europes-anti-gmo-stance-is-killing-afric
quade
You've been eating clones of the same seedless banana tree for decades.
IfOnlyICouldUseMyPowersForGood
Clones? So what happens if I walk into a banana orchard and shout "Execute order 66!"?
Dangeruff
I’m on to plantains.. you guys can keep eating your gross seeded yellow throat-chokers
somethingthathasntbeenused
Also known as GMOs.
quade
Actually, no.
Cr4zyC4tLady
Thank fuck. Look at all them seeds! I’d never eat them if I had to de-seed them every time
fewe
Hmm. The bananas from my grocery store certainly taste like it
wheresmymoneydenny
Don’t me started on soy beans
Mrbrown512
We grew bananas in Mexico, they didnt look like that
ReplyingToTopCommentsIsHowIGetPeopleToReadMyComments
Yeah, those look like spider eggs.
HatredandVitriol
I only buy organic. They are organic.
TheStaleBread
And it's seedless because it's a hybrid
inverseUniverse
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_banana
garyeffing
True, they were first domesticated in south eat Asia, probably PNG hundreds and hundreds of years ago.
memoryshuffle
Just unpollinated. Seedless cannabis is created the same way.
MrPajamaSam
They taste better. Also there are yellow watermelons. Inside it's yellow
Idsertian
They're just clones. They're meant to be expendable.
quade
"Bananas, execute Order 66!"
Idsertian
I know there's a HQ version of this, but I dunno where it is atm:
GoodbyeCassini
We have 200,000 ready to eat, with a million more well on the way.
BrotherhoodOfTheTaco
Not only that but, cloned trees will be genetically identical to the treethey were taken from. The cloned trees will grow at the same rate..
BrotherhoodOfTheTaco
And have the same pest resistance as the parent tree. That means they are very susceptible to the exact same diseases. For a seedless...
BrotherhoodOfTheTaco
...tree its very dangerous. Considering the fact that humans have been cloning fruit trees for thousands of years and in turn eliminating...
BrotherhoodOfTheTaco
...or mostly the seed just becomes useless. (most fruit seeds won't yeald edible fruit) thats why most fruit trees are clones of an original
BrotherhoodOfTheTaco
It' kinda like flirting with disaster...BUM. BUM. BUUUUUUUUM.....
BahamutBBob
Liar. I'm older than that even though I don't want to admit it.
Txdrifter
Does that mean that technically everyone has only eaten one banana, over and over. Like second harvest?
yomahnn
That’s why they make such a reliable scale. They are one banana.
nauticals15
It all makes sense now.
ambispankterous
IsThatAnElephant
Almost all fruit actually.
TheStaleBread
Yeah, apples have seeds, but they're extremely heterogeneous, so they need to be cloned
FiftyShadesOfCauliflower
For centuries even in case of some apple cultivars. Since the Middle Ages.
NastyHabit
Ya'll need some China...
IsThatAnElephant
Are you selling plates or the country?
NastyHabit
Maybe..
RidingDragonsWithoutALicense
Yes
IsThatAnElephant
Good. Good. I'll be in touch.
Hinahou
Depends how gullible you are...
AkLonewolf
not only that but the SECOND one. The banana flavored candy is what the FIRST batch that died out from disease tastes like.
pizzapartyhard
I also heard those are the ones with the stereotypical slippery peel.
PsychedelicButterfly
I believe it was called cavendish
etwasreindeutsch
Cavendish is what we eat now, gros Michael is the original plant
PsychedelicButterfly
Oops! Thank you for correcting my error kind samaritan. (I do mean that)
etwasreindeutsch
?? I appreciate you!!
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clutchthepearls
Just rare.
byzan
Never forget the Gros Michel
nevergoingtogiveyouupnevergoingtoletyoudown
The second one is on its way out for the same reason as the first. We're working on a third now.
IAmGodot
I hate this myth.
TooFunkToDrunction
https://io9.gizmodo.com/debunking-the-myth-of-the-fake-banana-flavor-1629459201
ABluntForce
I'm entirely fine with that other one being nearly extinct.
Babushi
That one was name The Big Red
Crawmak
It didn't completely die out. It's just not the standard banana anymore. You can still get it from farmers markets, and buy trees online.
teamsatyrboom
Good. I hate that flavour
unicorncentaur
I liked bananas as a kid. This might explain why I don’t like them as an adult
somnif
Unless you were a kid in the 1940s, its more like your tastes just changed.
unicorncentaur
Lol, probably so.
astraIvoid
So you're telling me, the banana flavor I actually like is extinct???? (I knew about extinct banana just not flavor thing)
VictusVonGuyver
It didn't actually die out, just stopped being a cash crop. Gros Michel is still sold in limited numbers to this day.
waltjrimmer
The Gros Michel isn't extinct, although it's a risky crop due to the fact it reproduces sexually, the reason it falls to Panama Disease.
mwoodman
I knew a guy named Gross Michael who had the same problem on Spring Break in central America.
Counterfit
Sageypie
pawa87
I always said I like the candy flavored better and people kept telling me that’s not how real bananas are. THE FOOLS!!!
Benlivin91
Ya, you like the taste of diseased bananas more though...
Sageypie
I mean, they weren't always diseased.
RamonaQ
You mean like circus peanuts???
AkLonewolf
Yeah the banana flavored ones.
RamonaQ
And you are telling me that that is what bananas used to taste like? And I never got to have one? This is what you are saying?
ClassyDestroyer
https://www.amazon.com/Gros-Michel-Banana-Plant-Variety/dp/B0094JDSAC
AkLonewolf
That is exactly what I am saying. The breed of Banana it is flavored after is extinct.
zFUBARz
It's partially correct as others have posted in more detail in here. but yeah They were/are more banannay than what you typically get here.
Anonaru
The Gros Michel to be exact. I thought this was an urban legend though? I believe the artificial flavor comes from the synthesis of 1/
Anonaru
one of the esters found in real bananas, without the other flavonoids.. so it's vaguely banana-like but not
somnif
Yep! Isoamyl acetate. Dirt cheap, non-toxic, and very potent.
Wy1dSta11yn
Thank you good sir! Actually! Now all my drugs will be both comedically slippery and taste like Bananas. Using “”slippery” loosely, oh man
clutchthepearls
Correct. The fake banana flavor came before the Americas got really ANY bananas. The chemical that is the fake flavor is present in (1)
clutchthepearls
basically all bananas, but in higher quantities in a Gros Michel than Cavendish that we have now. (2)
quade
Yep, and the current, blander strain, is also in danger. :(
RachTrap
Don't worry, we'll just take a wild species, and make it our bitch just like we did the rest of the food that has gone extinct.
Hybris51129
Sounds like we need to quickly science the shit out of this.
AkLonewolf
very true
avatarget
I’ve heard this but I’ve never seen a grocery store short on bananas
ALoveLikePi
Because we have 3 countries growing bananas just for us
ottotravel
Exactly, pretty much monopolized the entire economy of costa rica for a good bit just for that purpose.
BahamutBBob
Bring back a disease resistant strain of the original IMO.
WhoopityScoopPoop
Well you cant if the strain died out from the disease, sooo...
TheosophicBlues
A bit frustrating. This kind of shit happened with potatoes and we diversified them. Bananas are a fantastic food source.
WhoopityScoopPoop
Theres a lot of different trypes of bananas sold in other countries. We just only get the one kind for some reason
wheresmybanana
What’s this now?
BeerFueledAdventurer
All these (awesome) informative responses and no one seems to notice your username...
TheGonco
when there’s not much genial difference and it’s just clones like some crops they can be easily wiped out by disease
LayzeeBones
The banana flavor you know is of the gros michel banana which is noncommercially viable due to a disease. Now we have the 1/2
TooFunkToDrunction
The candy banana flavor not tasting like normal bananas because it’s based on Gros Michel bananas is a myth
LayzeeBones
2/2 cavendish banana which is becoming threatened by disease. As for as seeds, they are all grown via clones
probshouldntsayitbut
RIP Gros Michel banana, your memory lives on in laffy taffy’s