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[–] 7 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

You can still buy the Gros Michel banana nowadays. It's not extinct, but is a rare and expensive speciality, rather than the common type of banana we see on the shelves like it used to be.

$37 USD per banana, on this particular site

If climate change makes growing Arabica coffee commercially non-viable at scale and all the growers move to hardier alternatives, then Arabica will still exist - absolutely - but instead of being the coffee you can drink every day it will also become a rare and expensive speciality, just like the banana.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Wow that's gone up me and a few coworkers ordered a box a couple of years ago and it was like $9 per banana.

    They were good, I see the appeal of the variety, but they were not $9 banana good. Let alone $37 banana good.

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