Banana is peak food engineering.

- Comes in its own wrapper. 100% portable. Zero mess.
- Zero prep, zero cleanup.
- Instant energy.
- High potassium.
- Cheap

Name one bad thing about it. You can't. Banana wins. Pack it up.
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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Only heard about those via my dad, never got to try one..

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    They aren't extinct, they just aren't commercially viable to grow on large scales any more. A few isolated pockets of the trees survived the blight. A quick web search will turn up someone selling some if you really want to try them but like the other poster said if you've tried fake banana flavor you've tried gros michel.

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

    You'd reminded me that I still wanted to try these, someday, and I went looking, again, for if there was an easier means (other than travelling to Hawaii); I found this place that delivers within the contiguous states: https://miamifruit.org/products/gros-michel-banana-box-order. If you had wanted to try one; more expensive, due to the fragility of the crop, but viable.

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