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The Cavendish is the banana most of us are familiar with.
1 posted on 05/15/2006 3:09:10 PM PDT by blam
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One variety that contains genes that resist black sigatoka survives as a single plant in the botanical gardens of Calcutta, he says.

Well put up a damn greenhouse then and have it colonize other greenhouses.

31 posted on 05/15/2006 3:27:15 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (The social contract is breaking down.)
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Does this mean we can look forward to a future with no Banana Republics?


34 posted on 05/15/2006 3:28:10 PM PDT by jpl (Victorious warriors win first, then go to war; defeated warriors go to war first, then seek to win.")
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Urban legend. http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/bananas.asp


35 posted on 05/15/2006 3:28:12 PM PDT by Seamoth (Hemocyanin, chlorophyll, and hemoglobin.)
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It could very well be there is a crisis. Or maybe not. I wonder if the mothers of those in the scientific community ever read to them as childre "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and Chicken Little.


36 posted on 05/15/2006 3:28:30 PM PDT by Tribune7
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As soon as we alter the gene pool some FOOL ELF terrorist will firebomb the university or private lab and try to destroy the work.

I think I'll go have a piece of the wife's chocolate chip/banana bread.


37 posted on 05/15/2006 3:29:02 PM PDT by bigfootbob
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38 posted on 05/15/2006 3:30:27 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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Will this wipe out the banana republics?


40 posted on 05/15/2006 3:30:36 PM PDT by Liberal Bob (http://biblediscussion.org)
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A Future With No Bananas

I thought the article was about curing my slice...

I was ready to go out and buy another driver!

41 posted on 05/15/2006 3:31:21 PM PDT by wireman
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Dam, I was just saying to my wife the other day that my life is so boring that I buy green bananas just so I have something to live for.

Now what the hell am I supposed to do?
45 posted on 05/15/2006 3:40:33 PM PDT by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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Someone wants more money


48 posted on 05/15/2006 3:49:58 PM PDT by freekitty
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No more banana cream pie! No more banana pudding! No more banana bread! No more banana splits! Life just isn't worth living without bananas.


49 posted on 05/15/2006 3:52:51 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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Everybody will have to eat insects
51 posted on 05/15/2006 4:19:29 PM PDT by mjp
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I live in a small town in upstate NY. Our local grocery store commonly sells 4 different kinds of bananas. If I go to the city and look in specialty store I can find a few more types. If my little one store town has 4 kinds I wonder how valid this story truly is.


52 posted on 05/15/2006 4:24:35 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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I would rather put my money on United Fruit than the UN.


64 posted on 05/15/2006 5:45:10 PM PDT by Whispering Smith
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I only recently found out the bananas I had as a youth (the Gros Michel) went off the market to be replaced by the one we had now.

I had just chalked it up to childhood nostalgia (that bananas tasted better back then). The ones now seem firmer and less sweet. Guess we're in for another round.


68 posted on 05/15/2006 6:29:05 PM PDT by P.O.E.
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Actually, I met someone where bananas grow and she showed me the proper way to eat a banana.
You don't peel it back from the stem, you peel it back from the other end asnd then you have the stem to hold on to.
My banana story.


72 posted on 05/15/2006 6:53:05 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer
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This is very scary.
I cannot even fathom a future with no bananas.


73 posted on 05/15/2006 9:33:13 PM PDT by Lorianne
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http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/Humor/Music/NoBananas.htm


77 posted on 05/15/2006 10:08:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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