Hundreds of generations have been plaintain this crop. We must peel back the barriers keeping us from knowing its history. Thanks Red Badger.
Posted on 11/16/2022 11:27:55 AM PST by Red Badger
Can they breed it to taste like a hamburger? Then maybe I’ll eat one.
Bananas have always gone straight to my gag reflex, from babyhood til now.
Good for you? Great source of potassium, but yummy avocados have more.
Genetics totally has its place. It’s central to biological science and Gregor Mendel is the most important biologist ever.
The old bananas from the 50s were a variety called Gros Michel (Big Mike) and they got a blight. They are rare now, you can still find them if you feel like trekking into the jungle to find them but mass production is impossible because of the blight. The ones they replaced them with were a type called the cavendish banana and it was considered a “junk banana” meaning it lacked flavor. But it had the most important characteristics, it could be grown on existing plantations as-is and it could withstand long shipping times without spoiling quickly, which the old good bananas could also do but most could not. So we now have the junk banana. I was born after the old ones went away so I never had them. I’ve sometimes wondered if banana flavored candies are somehow reminiscent of them because they taste nothing like modern bananas.
What do you think mRNA is?
A Hawaiian once told me about "ice cream bananas" that grow in HI. People pick them off the trees and eat them. They also might be known as blue java bananas. Wish they were grown and sold in the Continental U.S.
One of the reasons artificial banana flavor is such a poor match for today’s banana is it was developed for an entirely different variety of banana.
That's correct.
"Big Mike" banana? No thanks.......
What do you think mRNA is?
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I said that in jest.
Not really even a funny joke either. The concept is that phizer and big pharma will find a way to exploit the issue. Not that mRNA technology directly applies to banana plants or fungus, although I’m not so sure something like it couldn’t. We already have a lot of GMOs
Hundreds of generations have been plaintain this crop. We must peel back the barriers keeping us from knowing its history. Thanks Red Badger.
That’s a real slippery slope we’re on...................
Sometimes a banana is just a banana.
Seems like the Gros Michel bananas could be a profitable specialty item if they really do taste better than the cavendish.
Plants apparenty do make use of mRNA, and like with mammals it’s a part of their protein synthesis. I wasn’t sure if plants would use it since they lack anything resembling a circulatory system but evidently that’s not a problem.
No, not our nanners! Fungi ruin everything :(
Wanna have nightmares? There’s a brain eating fungus that plasters giant spiders to trees. Seriously. No, I did not read it in The Daily Expose, Steve Kirsch’s substack or the Q thread. It’s for real:
These spiders can get huge. As in nearly dinner plate size. Okay, luncheon plate. But that’s still huge.
So, bread, butter, baklava, bananas...
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