How much do five bananas cost you?

[b etor]

52 Cents per lb where I am.

[Al B. Sure!]

52 Cents per lb where I am.

Yeah. HC in Virginia, me in Philly, and you in Michigan all same price.

I'm intrigued now as to why bananas are 3x more expensive in Britain.

[Supr49er]

Regular Dole banana are about 50 Cents a pound, but Organic bananas are $1.59 a pound.

[Cort Haus]

I'm intrigued now as to why bananas are 3x more expensive in Britain.

I don't think they are though. Now, my maths is rubbish but...

Average banana weight is 120g without the peel, according to the International Banana Association.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_th...anana_in_grams

So six weigh 720g, plus the peel which would probably take it to around a kg.

This tallies with the official price of a kg of bananas in the UK on 1/1/2011 of 99p.
http://tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/ec...banana-prices/

If people are paying ~50c/lb in the US that's ~$1.10 a kilo (if 1kg=2.2lb), or about 68p, compared to £1 in the UK.

So bananas in the US are approx 2/3 the price of the UK, not 1/3.

Now, consider where bananas are produced, and we can see that the US has plenty of major banana producers a lot nearer to it than the UK has.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ag...ana-production

So with shipping costs substantially lower, and with workers in the US being free to get paid a lot less than the evil eurocommies, that's probably almost comparable given the differing circumstances.


:whereistehbananasmiley:

[Cort Haus]

Regular Dole banana are about 50 Cents a pound, but Organic bananas are $1.59 a pound.

Yeah, leave the posh, tree-hugging bananas out of this. We're talking proletarian bananas here.

[Cort Haus]

same, although won't have any new ones ready for at least a month.

You have a banana tree?

[Dauphin]

Albie is no doubt confusing pounds and sterling.

[The Mad Monk]

Shhhhh.

[Al B. Sure!]

I was working under the assumption that 5 bananas are about a lb.

[C0ckney]

You have a banana tree?

several. they're not mine, but shared by myself and the neighbours. we also have a jaca tree, a goiaba tree and a caju tree and i think there's a pear tree if you travel a little further down the hill.

[Al B. Sure!]

several. they're not mine, but shared by myself and the neighbours. we also have a jaca tree, a goiaba tree and a caju tree and i think there's a pear tree if you travel a little further down the hill.

It's amazing how many fruits that are consumed in Latin America and Brazil that are unknown here in the United States outside of the Spanish community. My grocery store sells a bunch of weird fruit in frozen pulp form. A lot of it tastes so sour, though. I don't remember what they were called.

[C0ckney]

yeah i have discovered so many new fruits since i got here. some other great ones are maracujá, acerola and açai.

[The Mad Monk]

Açai berries? They're becoming the next great thing in "natural health" over here.

[Aeson]

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You'd think that the "ç" would give away the SECRET that these responses are all CUT AND PASTE. There's no "ç" on my keyboard, is there on yours? MAYBE IF YOU'RE A COMMUNIST THERE IS.

The bananas here are all ORGANIC!

YOU CAN ADD YOUR OWN CHEMICALS IF YOU WANT

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[C0ckney]

Açai berries? They're becoming the next great thing in "natural health" over here.

yeah that's the ones. the funny thing is, that in order to make them edible you need to add an outrageous amount of sugar, the berries are horrible on their own. in brasil it's usually consumed in frozen form, mixed with sugar, and guarana xarope (syrup). it's very good, but certainly not a health food.