Always wondered who invented bananas

[MabenMaroon]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1009172814698565632

https://twitter.com/SIKids/status/1009172814698565632

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[Goldendawg]

Maybe the banana was from that tree of knowledge that Adam and Eve tried out, because we sure know a lot about winning baseball games right now! Hail State!

[Srt201]

Well I’m waiting on them bring back the original bananas that were grown until they were wiped out in South America in the 1930s.

[jdwhite]

Well I’m waiting on them bring back the original bananas that were grown until they were wiped out in South America in the 1930s.

Catch a flight to Panama and walk around the area that was the canal zone and the Nation Park between the Atlantic and Pacific side of the canal. They grow wild there so you can pick a bunch off a tree for free. They are about 6 inches long and so doggone sweet you can barely eat them.

[tcdog70]

the Banana that I grew up eating--the Michel Gros variety is now extinct--it was wiped out by disease. The cavendish banana is what we eat today-and it is in danger. read this article.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/25/health/banana-extinction/index.html

[Jack Lambert]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFDOI24RRAE

[The Federalist Engineer]

the Banana that I grew up eating--the Michel Gros variety is now extinct--it was wiped out by disease. The cavendish banana is what we eat today-and it is in danger. read this article.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/25/health/banana-extinction/index.html

Unless you are 100 years old, the Gros Michel (Big Mike) died out commercially long ago. There were many varieties experimented from the 1920's to the 1950's when the full transition to the Cavendish started.

Today even the Cavendish is about to become commercially unavailable. But there are new products being developed. The problem is that mother nature is a tough opponent. Commercial viability, taste, and biology variables all have to be in harmony, but the biology variable keeps changing.

There are people that claim to be growing Gros Michels in isolated volcanic islands on the Hawaii archipelago. But, no guarantee of legitimacy and even these growers say that the fungus has found their islands.

https://www.amazon.com/Gros-Michel-Banana-Plant-Variety/dp/B0094JDSAC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1529524268&sr=8-1&keywords=gros+michel

The Ministry of Natural Resources of Honduras actually keeps the sub-specie of Gros Michel in labs and controlled access Green Houses, but not for commercial scale or sales.

[tcdog70]

Unless you are 100 years old, the Gros Michel (Big Mike) died out commercially long ago. There were many varieties experimented from the 1920's to the 1950's when the full transition to the Cavendish started.

Today even the Cavendish is about to become commercially unavailable. But there are new products being developed. The problem is that mother nature is a tough opponent. Commercial viability, taste, and biology variables all have to be in harmony, but the biology variable keeps changing.

There are people that claim to be growing Gros Michels in isolated volcanic islands on the Hawaii archipelago. But, no guarantee of legitimacy and even these growers say that the fungus has found their islands.

https://www.amazon.com/Gros-Michel-Banana-Plant-Variety/dp/B0094JDSAC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1529524268&sr=8-1&keywords=gros+michel

The Ministry of Natural Resources of Honduras actually keeps the sub-specie of Gros Michel in labs and controlled access Green Houses, but not for commercial scale or sales.

we still had Big Mike until the middle to late 50s--I was a kid and ate plenty of them.

[IMissJack]

we still had Big Mike until the middle to late 50s--I was a kid and ate plenty of them.

Just so I don't have to look it up, how was that variety different than today's?

[RocketDawg]

the Banana that I grew up eating--the Michel Gros variety is now extinct--it was wiped out by disease. The cavendish banana is what we eat today-and it is in danger. read this article.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/25/health/banana-extinction/index.html

So it's not my imagination that bananas tasted a lot better when I was a kid than now.

[tcdog70]

Just so I don't have to look it up, how was that variety different than today's?

Big Mike was sweeter. It had a thicker peel.the bananas of today are just bland.

[tcdog70]

So it's not my imagination that bananas tasted a lot better when I was a kid than now.

RD they tasted better.

[MabenMaroon]

Thanks! I tried:)