If you live in a northern climate, you have to rely on a very complicated and expensive delivery system that will supply you with this fruit that can only be grown in the tropics. And the only way to keep it economical is to create an economy where food prices are artificially kept low because first world countries systematically suppress developing countries that grow bananas into becoming stable economies that would actually provide better wages for farmers and workers who would raise the price of bananas.

We have cheap bananas because we don't mind living in a world where we abuse farmers and workers to work for pennies to supply us in the first world with cheap bananas.

So they can feed disease too? Is there anything bananas can't do?

That’s only the Cavendish, there are other varieties of banana. I was recently in Hawai’i and got to try an Apple Banana that had been grown there.

In Southeast Asia we have lots of banana varieties that we regularly eat.

Picked by slaves.

just like the previous, gros michael, the cavendish is susceptible to a fungal/bacterial disease. Wild type are pratically resistant, or a different species. but they often have that unslightly seeds.

also WATERMelons, figs, oranges.

all the seeded varieties can hybridize, or can cross pollinate with other plants. oranges, often have to use the wild "trifoliate" orange to grow better by grafting onto it. the trifoliate is pretty unique as its very hardy and cold tolerant, also possess defensive spines.

thousands

Millions at least

Do the 16p and 14p bananas taste better than the 13p bananas?

The trick is to get the green/light green bananas as they begin to ripen. Buying yellow to slightly darker yellow bananas will shorten their shelf life tremendously.

I'm not a fan of freezing them as they'll still continue to ripen. Your best case scenario if you start seeing them browning out is to make some banana bread or mix it in cupcake/cake mix.

Or stick it up your butt.

Decomposes, no problrm. Self unplugging, if you will.

That's the way I like it

They're completely safe what comes to Potassium-40 radioactivity! You need to eat a massive amount of them to even reach the point where you experience radiation sickness. Actually, you might experience excessive potassium toxicity levels first. (Or you might not! Human bodies are equipped to get rid of excess potassium.) Or, you know, you might experience the problems of stuffing too much stuff down your gullet. There's only so much stuff you can fit in your stomach at one time.

So are you.

Your mum's radioactive

That's the good spice.

That isn’t bananas fault though.

History of everything you can plant under a society that puts profit over people's life

It's just a standard fruit. Nothing to see here.

A couple of badly placed cyclones can wreck banana fields and make bananas expensive for a few years.

number 1 in sales of bananas in the country

Why do you know that data

Well.

We wont have bananas that taste any good. The ones we eat are selectively bred to become seedless, and are thereby infertile, and must be cloned to be propagated.

The species would still exist, but we'd have to start over with developing a plant that produces something edible.

One epidemic and we won’t have bananas anymore.

Only for a few countries ;) There's still a lot of banana varieties eaten around the world.

There are a lot of types though. Walmart may not have them, but my little 4 meter by 3 meter patch has several varieties and produces enough bananas for about 4 families.

So someone will still have bananas.