• Armand1@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Wait, this is real? I thought this was a joke…

    Like “Back in my day, bananas were bright purple, but that breed died out.”

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      6 months ago

      There are bananas that are dark red to dark purple, those varieties barely get imported to the US. For some reason the import market is 1-variety-of-bananas-at-a-time-until-it-goes-extinct.

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      6 months ago

      many different kinds of bananas and plantains

      and even the “original banana-flavour”-banana is still around, the kind is called “grand michel” and can still be bought, but is no longer suitable for mass farming (due to some fungi/bacteria vulnerability)