Popular Science Mag: Extinction of the Banana

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Lancer
If you're in a bunker, and you're busted.

Har-dee-har no actually, if your bunker is 1,000 feet below the surface.

[Az]

Technically true: Growers growing the cav's predecessor were never able to recover from the die off; the market niche was filled too quickly by the cav.

Ok, so who cares?

[DRoseDARs]

The people currently growing the world's cavs, the ones who will grow its replacement breed, and the people who own futures(?) in it...

[Az]

which amounts to approximately 0.0001% of the world's population.


Don't we have bigger fish to fry?

[Addled Platypus]

bananas to bunker busting - a wee bit strecth of the topic
--bunker buating bananananas--yeah baby


The article stated there was at least large bacterial infection that wiped out many producers over sees

if all else fails --plaintains (no chocolate coating)

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Platypus Rex
bananas to bunker busting - a wee bit strecth of the topic
--bunker buating bananananas--yeah baby

They're in the same month's issue.

[Ted Striker]

Why not just throw a bunch of used banana peels into the bunker?

The organisms living on the banana peels will eat up the available oxygen supply, overloading the filtration systems.

Or, someone will slip on the banana peel and fall over.

[Commy]

Anybody here every played Mario Cart on Nintendo 64?

[Ted Striker]

I have.

[Alex]

the great and powerful bananas will never disappear! never!

[Ted Striker]

This thread gives me a lack of a feel for closure, on so many different levels.

[Q Classic]

...and good riddens.

[Lancer]

Someday I'll be making corn flakes with milk and realize there is no more banana option.

That will be a sad day.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Az

Technically true: Growers growing the cav's predecessor were never able to recover from the die off; the market niche was filled too quickly by the cav.

Ok, so who cares?

Poly... who will have to embrace a new sort of banana.