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[Closed] Noooo!!! Bananas under threat

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Bananapocalpse 😯

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35131751


 
Posted : 24/01/2016 1:02 pm
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maybe we'll get the little tasty ones instead!


 
Posted : 24/01/2016 1:06 pm
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Good. Spiders just use them to smugle themselves into the country.
Plus the trees walk (true story)


 
Posted : 24/01/2016 1:35 pm
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While I don't mind eating bananas, they give me stomach cramps about 30 minutes after eating them, so have to mentally avoid eating them. I guess the fibre or similar is doing odd thing sin my stomach...


 
Posted : 24/01/2016 1:37 pm
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All of this has happened before. But the question remains, does all of this have to happen again?

[url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_disease ]Panama disease.[/url]


 
Posted : 24/01/2016 1:45 pm
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What you get for having a crop that isn't genetically diverse, all bananas come from one variety, so are very much at risk from disease; this has been ongoing for some years.


 
Posted : 24/01/2016 7:20 pm
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As above, the bananapocaylpse has been brewing for years.


 
Posted : 24/01/2016 8:01 pm
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maybe we'll get the little tasty ones instead!

+1 the little ones you get from the girls on the beach in Goa are much more 'bananary'


 
Posted : 24/01/2016 8:04 pm
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Fortunately we've been hoarding bits of nanas here in Belgium for years and soon our plans for global domination will come to 'fruit' bwahahaha

[url= http://www.biw.kuleuven.be/dtp/tro/_data/itc.htm ]INIBAP[/url]


 
Posted : 24/01/2016 8:12 pm
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, they give me stomach cramps about 30 minutes after eating them,

Try letting them ripen fully, the skins should be thin and spotted brown.


 
Posted : 24/01/2016 8:15 pm
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whats Freelee going to do?


 
Posted : 24/01/2016 8:16 pm
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all bananas come from one variety

isn't it worse than that, in that they are, for all intent and purposes, the same plant.


 
Posted : 24/01/2016 8:21 pm
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Other varieties are far more banarey, it's true. I was amazed to be in the staff room one day (in The Philippines) when people were talking about their faourite types of bananas. I hadn't been there long so looked confused when asked and think I said "Tesco's".

As with so much fruit and veg, much better to grow your own.

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Posted : 25/01/2016 1:50 am
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Think thats bad we have an avocado crisis down here!
[url= http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jan/24/brunchers-smashed-by-avocado-prices-amid-australian-shortage ]Brunchers smashed by avocado prices amid Australian shortage[/url]


 
Posted : 25/01/2016 2:02 am
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Try letting them ripen fully, the skins should be thin and spotted brown.

Yuck! That's when I throw them away (or make smoothies or use them in porridge). Can't stand ripe bananas on their own.

Get well soon banana.


 
Posted : 25/01/2016 7:53 am

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