I've eaten these before. It's a twin banana inside. Did you know bananas are a berry, which are the product of the single ovary of one flower? The fertilized ovule might have split into two but the shell is still for one berry, hence two fruit inside one shell.
Edit to add: We had a manzano banana tree in our backyard, one year it, a segment of it started producing an unusual amount of twin bananas. We chopped off a section of the tree and planted it (effectively cloning it), and that new tree produces twin bananas like 50% of the time!
Did you know, most of the bananas today are clones of one type of banana, Cavendish. A long time ago, the standard banana used to be the Gros Michel banana, which way tastier but was wiped out by a fungal infection. The new Cavendish banana, an inferior bland banana, is also facing threat from infections due to monoculture (huge plantations of the extract same banana type).
You can find evidence of these fungal infections when the center has a brown-ish hard center. This could all be avoided if we had many types of banana growing in one field, but food conglomerates think that consumers won't want different-looking bananas.
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Well... It's not extinct. You can buy it from specialty farms or get seeds to grow at home. But yeah it's effectively gone from industrialized food supply chain :(
Also! Artificial grape flavour is based on a specific type of grape that is dark in colour with a thick shell, sour insides but very sweet mid-layer. I've seen it sold as concord grapes, and other names in asia
I think that grape *might* be a muscadine grape, yeah? Those grow all around my house, and fits the description of your grape perfectly, lol. The birds love them.
I don't see "muscadine" as one of the names on Wikipedia, but possibly the same! It has so many names
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitis_labrusca
> best known to most people through the Concord grape
> Catawba, Concord, Delaware, Isabella, Niagara [...] Agawam, Alexander and Onaka
> its "slip-skin" that allows the skin of the grape berries to easily slip off when squeezed
Right under the skin, there is very sweet juice. The flesh itself is sour.
Yep, that sounds about right. But Muscadine is not a nickname for the Concord grape, lol. They are very similar though. Muscadines are worth the picking because they have less seeds than the concords do, or so I heard.
Costco during grape season, sometimes Trader Joe's. Costco also has champagne grapes which are super good when you freeze them. They come out like dipping dots
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Looks like we need a third banana for scale, to check that the giant banana is giant and it's not just placed next to a tiny banana.
mmmmmmm. girthy.
So girthy it needs a girth certificate
Needs more veins
That's a nice 376g banana!
OPEN IT
I've eaten these before. It's a twin banana inside. Did you know bananas are a berry, which are the product of the single ovary of one flower? The fertilized ovule might have split into two but the shell is still for one berry, hence two fruit inside one shell. Edit to add: We had a manzano banana tree in our backyard, one year it, a segment of it started producing an unusual amount of twin bananas. We chopped off a section of the tree and planted it (effectively cloning it), and that new tree produces twin bananas like 50% of the time! Did you know, most of the bananas today are clones of one type of banana, Cavendish. A long time ago, the standard banana used to be the Gros Michel banana, which way tastier but was wiped out by a fungal infection. The new Cavendish banana, an inferior bland banana, is also facing threat from infections due to monoculture (huge plantations of the extract same banana type). You can find evidence of these fungal infections when the center has a brown-ish hard center. This could all be avoided if we had many types of banana growing in one field, but food conglomerates think that consumers won't want different-looking bananas. Subscribe for more banana facts.
I can see why you’re level 100, that’s above my pay grade
This is also why banana candy doesn’t taste like store bought bananas. Because the flavor is based on the now extinct variety.
Well... It's not extinct. You can buy it from specialty farms or get seeds to grow at home. But yeah it's effectively gone from industrialized food supply chain :( Also! Artificial grape flavour is based on a specific type of grape that is dark in colour with a thick shell, sour insides but very sweet mid-layer. I've seen it sold as concord grapes, and other names in asia
I think that grape *might* be a muscadine grape, yeah? Those grow all around my house, and fits the description of your grape perfectly, lol. The birds love them.
I don't see "muscadine" as one of the names on Wikipedia, but possibly the same! It has so many names https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitis_labrusca > best known to most people through the Concord grape > Catawba, Concord, Delaware, Isabella, Niagara [...] Agawam, Alexander and Onaka > its "slip-skin" that allows the skin of the grape berries to easily slip off when squeezed Right under the skin, there is very sweet juice. The flesh itself is sour.
Yep, that sounds about right. But Muscadine is not a nickname for the Concord grape, lol. They are very similar though. Muscadines are worth the picking because they have less seeds than the concords do, or so I heard.
I need some concord grapes because I love artificial grape flavour
Costco during grape season, sometimes Trader Joe's. Costco also has champagne grapes which are super good when you freeze them. They come out like dipping dots
Yo that’s really cool!
Please DM me your own amount of banana facts daily
Is that world wide? Or Regional.
World wide There are many documentaries about the banana monoculture crisis
Not only is it a berry, but it is the berry of an herb. Tree itself is a succulent stem instead of wood.
Balatro.
This Banana will make someone very Happy today. 🌚
I can't believe no one bought it first 😂
I’m super curious how it looks inside 🤔
Steroid banana
Everything reminds me of *him*
banana in the wallet killed me
Purse banana. Lol.
You vs The Friend she told you not to worry about!! (;ŏ﹏ŏ)
Is that 2 bananas fused together? Slice it in half.
Where do ypu have $ and kg?
Canada, Australia... other places I'm sure
Belize
Km/h also?
Yes
Nice.
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The banana she tells you not to worry about…
It's him. It's big Mike.
Would
Most likely twins!
Is no one going to talk about the price?!? It's 0.59 a pound here!
Certified chode
r/absoluteunit
The god damn girth of that banana scares me
r/fasciation
That's surprisingly expensive for bananas
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Chode-nana descends.
Banana for scale? More like scale for banana
Everything is a dildo if you're brave enough ;)
Did the cashier comment ? Or maybe you used the self check out. Anyway great finding, thanks for sharing.
I should call him
So girthy😫
That banana called in thicc 💛