No More Bananas!

[Delinquent]

ONCE you become accustomed to gas at $4 a gallon, brace yourself for the next shocking retail threshold: bananas reaching $1 a pound. At that price, Americans may stop thinking of bananas as a cheap staple, and then a strategy that has served the big banana companies for more than a century — enabling them to turn an exotic, tropical fruit into an everyday favorite — will begin to unravel.

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This article isn't so much about gas prices (as the except may lead you to believe) but more so about the Latin American governments and evolution of banana marketing and politics. Enjoy.

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[kevkingofthesea]

I don't really eat bananas that much anyway.

[Gr|m]

the **** is bananas
B A N A N A S

[joe]

this would impact other countries more than the US. there are tens of millions of people who eat bananas every day as a major part of their diet

[sys]

i eat a lot of bananas
this would sad me

actually i heard about this issue a few years ago, but kinda forgot about it

[Tuck]

If you go to Orange Julias, they ask you if you want to add one banana for a dollar.

[Avvatar]

You should ask joe to tell his banana story sometime. It's fascinating.

[molf]

I used to be friends with a guy who occasionally stuck pieces of banana up his ass and shat them back out as part of masturbation.


Surely when someone uses it for that it was worth the decades of suffering and oppression put on Latin American countries so that the rest of the world could be sold its bananas.

[Rat-morningstar]

I used to be friends with a guy who occasionally stuck pieces of banana up his ass and shat them back out as part of masturbation.

we didn't want to know that, another trauma in my young life, and this time it's not evem from oi

[sys]

I used to be friends with a guy who occasionally stuck pieces of banana up his ass and shat them back out as part of masturbation.

i was going to ask why you would know this about your friend but i changed my mind about wanting to know the answer

[RusticTrain]

I read an article about a year ago that said that bananas are going to become extinct because they've been bred to not contain seeds which was a stupid move. I'll try to find a source.


Ninja edit: Yep, they're going extinct: Popular Science.

[Avvatar]

I read an article about a year ago that said that bananas are going to become extinct because they've been bred to not contain seeds which was a stupid move. I'll try to find a source.


Ninja edit: Yep, they're going extinct: Popular Science.

FAIL
http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/bananas.asp

[joe]

the snopes article confirms most of the popular science article, avvatar fails

[kevkingofthesea]

I read an article about a year ago that said that bananas are going to become extinct because they've been bred to not contain seeds which was a stupid move. I'll try to find a source.


Ninja edit: Yep, they're going extinct: Popular Science.

FAIL
http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/bananas.asp

This post gets JOE'S OFFICIAL FAIL STAMP.

[RusticTrain]

No, no it doesnt.

The official term is "Joewned."


Avvatar was DEFINITELY Joewned.