• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    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.

    • Jerkface (any/all)
      link
      fedilink
      English
      1
      edit-2
      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]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        -12 months ago

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