Apparently this was an actual discourse going around.

  • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’d highly recommend trying to find an “actual banana” (might be a bit expensive) or trying an actual banana if you ever go to a tropical region.

    The bananas in grocery stores are mid at best. Actual bananas are absurdly sweet, delicate, and delicious. You can get them by the kilo for pennies in many nations and there’s a reason they’re a large part of many peoples diets in tropical regions.

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      1 year ago

      I thought I saw somewhere that there was only one species of Banana left which are the mid ones available in grocery stores. I don’t know if there are any “actual bananas” available where I live but if I manage to travel outside of Canada one day I’ll definitely try out the tropical bananas

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        1 year ago

        There are actually over 1000 different varieties of Bananas and Plantains in the world, that are actively farmed.

        Cavendish is the most basic one (found in grocery stores) because the previous most dominant sort was heavily damaged by disease (but not rendered extinct like many think).

        Even tropical Cavendish is delicious because the ones in stores are picked when they are unripe and not able to develop much sugar.

        Here are just a few of the more common sorts of bananas in the world.

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          1 year ago

          This is a great reference, thank you! I don’t know where the hell I got the idea that only one type of banana existed

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          1 year ago

          Blue Java bananas are freaking amazing. They’re actually blue, and taste like berry ice cream. I don’t get why we don’t grow more of them.

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            1 year ago

            Capitalism resists change. They already have the system set up for Canvendish Bananas, why shake things up and spend money growing and distributing Blue Java bananas?