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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

More fun facts! The yellow banana we buy today is the Cavendish Banana, which is similar to, but not the same as the Gros Michel banana that was popular years ago (which was decimated by a blight). This is why banana candy doesn't taste like the bananas we eat today. This is also where the trope of slipping on a banana peel came from, since Gros Michel peels are much slipperier than Cavendish peels.

https://www.epicurious.com/ingredients/history-of-the-gros-michel-banana

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

trope of slipping on a banana peel came from, since Gros Michel peels are much slipperier than Cavendish peels.

TIL

Knew about the flavour thing, but not about it being slippier.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I am highly sceptical about the slippery thing. Seems like it could be a good deception, hiding among weird facts...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’d like to subscribe to banana facts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

BANANA FACTS! Botanically speaking, a banana is a berry

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

cool facts but not as fun as mine 🥰

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

god this meme is amazing! nice one OP

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

thanks pootzapie i don’t often make OC but when i do i remember to slay 💫

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@emstuff This is so huge and shocking that I can’t believe I never heard of it until now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ever heard the term banana republic? Guess where it comes from.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/banana-republic

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@DoucheAsaurus

@emstuff

Didn’t the Chiquita stuff specifically happen much more recently?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They've been doing bad shit for something like a hundred years. Chiquita used to be called United Fruit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry to have to be the one, but do you mean "Colombia" the country?

With U it could be confused with actual places named Columbia in North America

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

this post has no meaning i am simply encouraging viewers to google a phrase which i know will direct them to content they find enlightening

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The bananas must flow.

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