10-12-2024, 12:10 AM
(10-05-2024, 06:15 AM)FlyingClayDisk Wrote: On a serious note, when I was stationed in Malaysia I always used to go to the open air night market on Saturday nights. It wasn't uncommon to see 15-20 different strains of bananas, everything from plantain type starchy bananas, to mini bananas, to regular bananas, to different colored and shaped bananas. All of them unique in taste, texture, size and shape.
This is the important part of the issue here. Because stores rely on basically one type for most of its banana sales. It's like nobody learned a damn thing from the Irish Potato Famine.
Personally, some of those lesser sold bananas are worlds better than the cavendish variety and I wish they would be sold here (thanks a lot Clinton administration). I don't get we don't do what they do in Iceland when it comes to growing our own bananas, I have a friend that lives in an Earthship down in New Mexico, and they grow their own bananas inside. There are some tricks to it but still they eat their own grown bananas. We could do that, just like in Iceland, here at home. Why we don't is due to ignorance of the techniques.
