The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now arrived in Latin America • Hacker News Board

Re: The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now arrived in Latin America

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Post by checkyoursudo » Thu, Aug 15, 2019, 9:24 PM UTC

0xffff2 wrote: post #171

LgWoodenBadger wrote: post #151

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From my days working in software for the retail market about 20 years ago, we had to build functionality to allow the exclusion of bananas and milk from our predictive analytics application because EVERYBODY bought them. Probably over 99% of retail grocer transactions contained them.

As someone who despises bananas outside of banana bread, I find this episode of Banana Facts completely shocking. I always thought is was like cilantro, where some people think it tastes like soap. I guess I'm the only one who has to suppress my gag reflex whenever someone peels a banana within smelling distance?

I have a friend who goes berserk just being within eyesight or nose...smell of bananas. Her story is that her mom fed her too many of them as a kid. Whether that's the real reason or not, I don't know. But there are at least two of you. But probably only two. ;)

Re: The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now arrived in Latin America

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Post by xbmcuser » Thu, Aug 15, 2019, 10:27 PM UTC

yoube wrote: post #66

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Many of us that are considered anti gmo are more anti patent for food genes rather than of anti gmo. The developing world mostly has agricultural economy now Western companies are trying to horn in that as well. A few years ago an American company tried to patent and stop Pakistan and India from selling a rice variety called Basmati by modifing it genes and trying to patent it. When its come to gmo the trust deficit…

Then don't call yourselves anti-GMO?

I didn't say we were anti-gmo rather we are labeled as anti-gmo despite our reservations being about the patenting systems rather than the science.

Re: The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now arrived in Latin America

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Post by omaranto » Fri, Aug 16, 2019, 1:40 AM UTC

marcosdumay wrote: post #156

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I don't get all this talk about "insipid Cavendish". Am I the only one that thinks Cavendish bananas are delicious? Yes, it's true that every other variety I've tried is better (I live in Mexico and we have several varieties of banana and plantain available), but even being the worst kind of banana I still think the Cavendish is very tasty. When people say it's insipid do they just mean compared to other bananas (in…

> Yes, it's true that every other variety I've tried is better What was the question again? You might want to place those Cavendish ones on the oven with a little of butter, or to fry them. They are unbeatable on that format, but are pretty bland otherwise.

For both baking and frying in butter, I prefer plantains (so I wouldn't say Cavendish is unbeatable in those formats).