Bananas are a mono-crop. There was a disease in the latter half of the 20th century that threatened all bananas on the planet. A particular strain survived called the Cavendish. It is what you NOW think of as a banana. The candy tastes like the way bananas used to taste.
My friend and I ordered dried Gros Michel from the same vendor Hank ordered after watching his video. They do indeed smell like banana candy. It tasted great!
Can confirm. I went on a banana adventure during the pandemic where I ate nearly 10kg of all sorts of different bananas, including the “Big Mike”. I learned the Cavendish is a shit banana and we’ve been cheated out of superior nanners for decades.
Fun fact: trips from Denmark to any part of South America tend to cost in excess of $100 too.
Also, I’d probably have to do a layover in the US, which isn’t exactly safe for anyone who isn’t a rich white right wing Christian lately and I’m only one of those things…
I’m not curious enough about alternative bananas to risk being thrown in a concentration camp in order to sample them…
Bananas are a mono-crop. There was a disease in the latter half of the 20th century that threatened all bananas on the planet. A particular strain survived called the Cavendish. It is what you NOW think of as a banana. The candy tastes like the way bananas used to taste.
counterpoint: https://youtu.be/I9ZtvpBoXzI
TL;DW banana candy does not taste like gros michel either
My friend and I ordered dried Gros Michel from the same vendor Hank ordered after watching his video. They do indeed smell like banana candy. It tasted great!
Can confirm. I went on a banana adventure during the pandemic where I ate nearly 10kg of all sorts of different bananas, including the “Big Mike”. I learned the Cavendish is a shit banana and we’ve been cheated out of superior nanners for decades.
There are still places you can get the good bananas but they are not very common anymore
Yeah and unless the guy who made the above video got ripped off, they’re roughly $100 a dozen 😬
Just go to South America, there’s a million kinds of banana and they’re all dirt cheap.
Fun fact: trips from Denmark to any part of South America tend to cost in excess of $100 too.
Also, I’d probably have to do a layover in the US, which isn’t exactly safe for anyone who isn’t a rich white right wing Christian lately and I’m only one of those things…
I’m not curious enough about alternative bananas to risk being thrown in a concentration camp in order to sample them…
You’re probably better off connecting in Iberia, fwiw.
SE Asia only solves part of your problem but that’s better than solving none of it, right?
It’s also where bananas actually originated…that counts for something, right?
That disease did the world a favor.