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  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    11 months ago

    Took me a minute to remember about Twitter banana discourse but I was appreciating the meme just as much without getting the reference.

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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        11 months ago

        Somebody said that under global socialism there wouldn't be year round bananas in like Ohio bc the supply chain wouldn't make sense and everyone started arguing about it.

        • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          Under global socialism every community would have local hot houses for cultivating exotic fruits

        • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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          11 months ago

          I'm with the chapo boys on this one, who even likes bananas? They're a pretty mediocre fruit

          Plantains on the other hand you can pry from my cold dead hands

          • pooh [she/her, any]
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            11 months ago

            Bananas that they sell in places like the US are garbage because that variety is grown for the purpose of being easier to ship without going bad and not for flavor. Bananas in countries like Brazil, on the other hand, are more diverse and typically much more flavorful, depending on the strain.

            • SerLava [he/him]
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              11 months ago

              Yeah I used to have bananas in my backyard and they were fire, and some people had ones that tasted like cotton candy or some shit

          • glans [it/its]
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            11 months ago

            bananas are supposed to be cheap.

            but if you subtract the weight of the skin, which is inedible, unsmokable and otherwise not consumable, it is not particularly cheap actually.

            plantains have thinner skin and bigger meat so there is less waste.

            mini bananas are ++++expensive