• GardenGeek@europe.pub
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    21 days ago

    If you eat a banana in Europe or the U.S., there’s a 99% chance it was harvested just as green as the one in the picture.

    Today, bananas are harvested unripe in their countries of origin because they’re much easier to transport that way, and they’re then fumigated with ethylene in large ripening facilities at their destination to allow them to ripen further. This way, the logistics process is less stressful during transport, and the customer gets a perfectly ripe banana at the store… though I don’t understand why they used bananas for the photo that were taken out of the ripening house too early.

    • protist@retrofed.com
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      21 days ago

      In the US, bananas often hit the store shelves this color. They will ripen quickly over the following 3-4 days. You can decide to buy the ones that have ripened on the shelves or buy greener ones and let them ripen at home. Unripe bananas have several culinary uses, so it’s good to have this option

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      20 days ago

      That’s the problem with that party. They believe the government doesn’t work so they’re trying to prove it.

  • Jiral@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Do Americans not know how fruits work or is it just the Epstein class that doesn’t?

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Ironically, there’s a phrase for someone who’s so old and out of touch that they might as well be on death’s doorstep:

    “Don’t buy green bananas.”

    (In the South it’s often used in a self deprecating way: “let’s just say I don’t buy green bananas.”)

  • switcheroo@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    That shithead has never once been in a grocery store or had to buy his own food. Shows how out of touch he is. Fuck off with that shit.

    Personally I get the green nanners since they’ll last longer.