• @[email protected]
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    12 months ago

    I argue mostly everyone here never had a real banana. No, the ones in the stores aren’t the original flavor.

    • @[email protected]
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      02 months ago

      Well, the one in the stores are real bananas. They aren’t Gros Michel bananas, but that’s because Gros Michel went extinct before I was born (and I’m not exactly young anymore.) We might lose the Cavendish before I die.

      Supposedly the “banana flavor” in candy is closer to a Gros Michel than to a Cavendish.

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        2 months ago

        Also: Gros Michel bananas have slippery peels. Cavendish do not! That’s where the weird trope with no remaining connection to real life comes from.

        • @[email protected]
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          -12 months ago

          Woah. I was today years old when I learned the slippery banana trope comes from an extinct banana.