Bananas Are Not What You Think | The Shocking Truth

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  • čas přidán 17. 07. 2013
  • Bananas are not so innocent as you might think-while usually good for you, these potassium packed fruits have some shocking secrets! Join Hank Green for a new episode of SciShow-it'll make you go bananas!
    Hank loves bananas and is worried about their future, so he did some investigating and wrote this episode of SciShow to share some kinda scary banana truths with us.
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  • @ethelryan257
    @ethelryan257 Před 3 lety +764

    This was fascinating. I'm in my 60's and I clearly remember bananas in my pre-school days staying a billion times better.
    Been told all my life that taste fades, etc.
    Nope. Turns out it's a totally different variety of fruit.

    • @Graeme_Lastname
      @Graeme_Lastname Před 3 lety +42

      They also have a different texture. I miss the "real" ones.

    • @_perza
      @_perza Před 2 lety +32

      @@Graeme_Lastname You can still get them, just has to be from isolated farms. But Johnny Harris got some

    • @sleepwalking117
      @sleepwalking117 Před 2 lety +3

      There's actually 2 but one is mostly used in South America or by Hispanic people. It's called plantanos they taste horrible but some people like them.

    • @FelineFosterFamily
      @FelineFosterFamily Před 2 lety +5

      Can you tell me how similar the taste of the Gros Michel banana is to the banana flavouring in lollies and such?

    • @joenevico7742
      @joenevico7742 Před 2 lety +11

      @@sleepwalking117 they're good of you fry them in oil with salt and press them with a fork or spoon. They're really good!

  • @Slashbag69
    @Slashbag69 Před 3 lety +425

    I've always found it kind of strange that I don't like actual bananas, but I love anything banana flavoured. It all makes sense now.

    • @Stratelier
      @Stratelier Před 3 lety +36

      And I'm generally the other way around...

    • @sapphirethedeer5299
      @sapphirethedeer5299 Před 3 lety +7

      Same i hate banana's but every night i have banana milkshake

    • @fmusopp
      @fmusopp Před 2 lety +7

      same. I'll even eat banana bread. just not bananas .I wonder if I'd like other kinds?

    • @jamesbenz3228
      @jamesbenz3228 Před 2 lety +7

      @@sapphirethedeer5299 that's how you catch obesity

    • @sammieh9695
      @sammieh9695 Před 2 lety +5

      I love actual bananas but hate banana flavored things. Now it makes sense to me too

  • @melvillecapps8339
    @melvillecapps8339 Před 3 lety +550

    I remember as a child in the 1960s that all of a sudden bananas did not taste as good. Now I know it was because of the switch from the Gros Mishel to the Cavandish. Same thing with Coca-Cola when they switched from cane sugar to high-fructose corn syrup as the sweetener.

    • @wandabanks6756
      @wandabanks6756 Před 2 lety +5

      I agree

    • @equaius893
      @equaius893 Před 2 lety +108

      Coca Cola when they got rid of the cocaine

    • @willybones3890
      @willybones3890 Před 2 lety +2

      They were far superior.

    • @SwapPartLLC
      @SwapPartLLC Před 2 lety +11

      Cane sugar Coke still exists. There's a Mexican restaurant near me and they serve it. They call it Mexican Coke. Personally, I don't like it as much. It's probably an acquired taste like with coffee.

    • @jarrodrees7272
      @jarrodrees7272 Před 2 lety

      Yeah exactly the same....no mate lmao

  • @naturalmystic1262
    @naturalmystic1262 Před 3 lety +1621

    I'm from the Philippines and my tears fell when i learned that you only have 1 variety of banana 😢

    • @Ina_m22
      @Ina_m22 Před 3 lety +40

      😲😲 how many do you have?

    • @jakke1975
      @jakke1975 Před 3 lety +172

      There are more varieties of bananas than that. I've eaten plantains and those mini-bananas of an inch or 2 in length and there are at least 4 or 5 other kinds available in the tropics, just not in your average supermarket around the world.

    • @Ina_m22
      @Ina_m22 Před 3 lety +11

      @@jakke1975 ah nice one i wish i had an access to that :(

    • @jakke1975
      @jakke1975 Před 3 lety +52

      @@Ina_m22 I live in Europe so I don't have access to all of them, but travel a bit and expand your horizons. Experiencing different foods is a major reason for me to travel. Even the things you have access to at home can taste totally different because you're getting it fresh from the tree, ground or water.

    • @Ina_m22
      @Ina_m22 Před 3 lety +13

      @@jakke1975 true, i know. I have travelled a bit too and i know how different and good food taste from UK lol. Wherever there is more Sun food always taste better

  • @ivanov093
    @ivanov093 Před 4 lety +2059

    The whole, banana flavored things actually do taste like banana, it's just a once ubiquitous strain that's now extinct, blew my mind. That's honestly amazing. Candies are the fossilized footprints of this banana lost to time.

    • @alexiswilliamsinc
      @alexiswilliamsinc Před 4 lety +57

      ivanov093 Mine, too!! How poetic is your last sentence!?

    • @Devilot109
      @Devilot109 Před 4 lety +144

      It's not actually extinct. It's just quite rare after all the die-off and isn't used much commercially because of the rarity. Because of the reliance on suckers, it takes a while for a banana population to bounce back.

    • @alicemallon2858
      @alicemallon2858 Před 4 lety +7

      @@Devilot109h

    • @planescaped
      @planescaped Před 4 lety +94

      I've had Gros Michel on a banana split. They aren't extinct, they just aren't grown for mass consumption anymore. They're a small crop thing. "artisanal banana's" if you would. :P and yeah, they're way better. Cavendish banana's are quite bland.

    • @TheOJDrinker
      @TheOJDrinker Před 4 lety +19

      Did you see they're also shaped the same? It's like banana candies are a memorial to the Gros Michel

  • @nekomasteryoutube3232
    @nekomasteryoutube3232 Před 8 lety +1302

    As someone who was born in 1992, it pains me that I'll never get to eat a banana that was possibly tastier then the banana's we have now.

    • @voidvoid5506
      @voidvoid5506 Před 8 lety +50

      You can, but depending on where you live, its pretty hard and expensive.

    • @nekomasteryoutube3232
      @nekomasteryoutube3232 Před 8 lety +5

      Todd Parris
      Or Canada (my home), dont forget Canadians :D

    • @joehollow2505
      @joehollow2505 Před 8 lety +68

      Hey, I was born 1981 and this is a first time I'm hearing about it. It's a bit silly but it makes me feel like I missed out on something, almost as if I was robbed of some sort of great opportunity. Odd.

    • @twdjt6245
      @twdjt6245 Před 8 lety +26

      lol I was thinking the same thing. '91 baby here. i'm like " no fair"
      but there are different varieties of bananas that exist and are grown....of course they're likely only found (in the USA anyway) in specialty stores, farmers' markets and in people's back yards.....they're usually smaller & probably more common in other countries (Latin America, Caribbean, etc) where people grow edible plants on their properties more than here.
      Just do a quick search on eBay or google and they sell several varieties of banana plants, some of which are reputably tastier than the commercial variety we all enjoy. I've had some before. Unfortunately they're rare to come by unless you know someone with a tree.
      Same goes with mangoes and papayas actually.... (probably other fruits as well).... the mangoes and papayas in most markets SUCK....even when it's their season. I don't see why people bother buy them, especially when they're so expensive.
      My parents came from Haiti and we have several Papaya trees ...so you can actually wait till the fruit is ripe (bright orange all over) to enjoy it... (the ones in the market are picked well prior and the flavor/texture suffers for it) .... the varieties they grow commercially are likely different too, to be more bug resistant, require less water or space, grow faster, etc etc. We live in Florida and have neighbors who have a massive mango tree that grows huge incredibly sweet mangoes. Not that fibrous sour crap they sell for over a dollar in markets.
      No food tastier or sweeter in my opinion than a tree ripened mango or papaya that grew in someone's back yard.
      Sad part is that most fruit trees are extremely low maintenance to grow too, yet so few people do, even here in the south.

    • @connorwaud6134
      @connorwaud6134 Před 8 lety +16

      You can still eat the grow machel its just not grown by banana inderstrys any more

  • @thinkcivil1627
    @thinkcivil1627 Před 3 lety +105

    Having been born in the 1950s, yes there is a distinct difference in taste between the 2 banana types. The type I ate in the 60s was sweeter and had a much more distinct banana flavor to it. Today's bananas are bland and starchy compared to those we ate back in the day. There has to be a way to produce a better tasting banana than what's out there right now.

    • @Xosidhe
      @Xosidhe Před 2 lety +2

      They can’t figure out how to stop the world burning and the polar ice melting… I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for a tasty banana.

    • @tissuepaper9962
      @tissuepaper9962 Před 2 lety +5

      You can still buy a Gros Michel, they're just really expensive because there are so few people growing them.

    • @noodleboi6711
      @noodleboi6711 Před 2 lety +5

      @@tissuepaper9962 I ate one today and it blew my socks off, they have got to find a way to bring them back or fight the fungus untill they get to peoples mouths.

    • @PresidentMikeJohnson
      @PresidentMikeJohnson Před 2 lety +2

      we lost the original banana technology and its too painful to rebuild from scratch

    • @maxsavage3998
      @maxsavage3998 Před rokem

      @@noodleboi6711 stop mass production is one way

  • @lucyspencer9752
    @lucyspencer9752 Před 3 lety +95

    I can second just how popular bananas are. I work in the produce department of a grocery store and we receive a whole pallet of bananas every morning. They're usually gone by the end of the night.

    • @djtrac3r935
      @djtrac3r935 Před 2 lety +6

      Bananas are wonderful! You can do a whole bunch of thing with them! :D
      (Pun not intended :P)

    • @icarusbinns3156
      @icarusbinns3156 Před 2 lety +6

      I used to work in the produce section. I learned in the worst way that there really can be spiders in the bananas! So did the rest of the store thanks to my unholy banshee scream of fright when a brown tarantula scuttled across my hand. But! We did not kill him! Instead, my coworkers and I got him into a little tupperware dish and poked holes for him, gave him water, a few mealworms… and then tried to figure out what to do with him. It was snowing outside, and we weren’t just going to toss him out there! He’d scared me but we weren’t going to kill him!
      We did accidentally get him adopted. An arachnologist overheard us talking, and asked to take a look. And was immediately wanting to take the little arachnid home. Happy ending for the spider!

  • @geekay1349
    @geekay1349 Před 5 lety +1681

    and they come with their own biodegradable wrapper - the perfect food

    • @monkeyrobotsinc.9875
      @monkeyrobotsinc.9875 Před 4 lety +24

      is that your excuse for littering?!?! cool

    • @timokaaarp7779
      @timokaaarp7779 Před 4 lety +105

      @@liamgardner1252 it also provides an opportunity for slapstick comedy

    • @aethellstan
      @aethellstan Před 3 lety +18

      You can actually eat the wrapper and leave no mess. In terms of it being biodegradable, yes it is but it takes a few years, so if you want the place littered with slowly rotting banana wrappers then put it in a bin

    • @mutantgeralt
      @mutantgeralt Před 3 lety +23

      Literally every fruit has a biodegradable "wrapper". That's no excuse for littering

    • @diwakaranvalangaimanmani3777
      @diwakaranvalangaimanmani3777 Před 3 lety +2

      Milk + Banana juice (including its skin) is a healthy drink. No sugar or honey need be added.

  • @glenhomer9856
    @glenhomer9856 Před 3 lety +237

    Having grown up in Brazil, we had dozens of different varieties of bananas. each with a different flavor, size, and texture.

    • @bellagrey7739
      @bellagrey7739 Před 2 lety +22

      Same here in Malaysia. Poor western people lol

    • @skylined5534
      @skylined5534 Před 2 lety +6

      @@bellagrey7739
      You have bananas... we have everything else.

    • @bellagrey7739
      @bellagrey7739 Před 2 lety +23

      @@skylined5534 sure you do lol

    • @anekinoo7
      @anekinoo7 Před 2 lety +9

      @@bellagrey7739 it’s just city folks that don’t know how to garden 😂 I’m in California. I’m growing 5 different varieties.

    • @kevin-kw8bv
      @kevin-kw8bv Před 2 lety +2

      @@anekinoo7 Is california a real place?

  • @zubayeerahmed3801
    @zubayeerahmed3801 Před 3 lety +773

    I am from Bangladesh and I have eaten banana seeds before. Big ones. They taste really good. There are dozens of varieties in our country. My fav is the "Shagor kola". It's long and sweet.

    • @karissahammond4587
      @karissahammond4587 Před 3 lety +21

      I want to try them! 😄

    • @FerreTrip
      @FerreTrip Před 3 lety +27

      Really? So those unnerving bananas crammed with seeds are still tasty?

    • @patriciavalencia2674
      @patriciavalencia2674 Před 3 lety +15

      Crazy. Would you post a pic? Bananas grow everywhere in Brazil !!!

    • @zubayeerahmed3801
      @zubayeerahmed3801 Před 3 lety +26

      @@FerreTrip The ones with seeds taste the best. At least in some varients.

    • @J-Hue
      @J-Hue Před 3 lety +28

      @@zubayeerahmed3801
      From what I've noticed, natural foods seem to taste better than their artificial versions which have a more plastic kinds of flavor. Unfortunately it's becoming tougher to find the more natural versions of foods where in the US.

  • @teenygozer
    @teenygozer Před 3 lety +10

    The few countries that still produce the Gros Michel today mostly do so under another name: Thihmwe in Myanmar, Johnson in Cuba, Pisang Ambon in Malaysia. In Hawai'i, it is commercially grown as Bluefields.

  • @davidtallmadge6359
    @davidtallmadge6359 Před 4 lety +107

    I am an American that moved to the Philippines I remember the old bananas very well but over here there are so many types that I love more cooked plantains and sweet queen types LONG LIVE THE BANANA

    • @BlueAsh532
      @BlueAsh532 Před rokem

      LONG LIVE BANANA CUE (DEEP FRIED SUGAR COATED PLANTAIN)

  • @indrasishmajumder6359
    @indrasishmajumder6359 Před 4 lety +139

    Ever tried banana chips?
    Those are damn good.

  • @jupekai6295
    @jupekai6295 Před 2 lety +10

    I hope one day science figures out how to bring back the Gros Michael as I'd love to try one, I LOVE banana flavouring!
    Oh gosh imagine banana bread made with Gros Michael instead of Cavendish!

  • @sinistral9629
    @sinistral9629 Před 2 lety +33

    I love this channel for just this kind of information that I never knew I needed to know. I've eaten bananas in Africa and South America that are nothing like the 'Cavendish'. They were the size and shape of chubby fingers, sweeter, softer and much, much tastier. I'm wondering if they're more like the original SE Asian varieties.

    • @bhunag9383
      @bhunag9383 Před 2 lety +5

      We have several varieties of bananas in southern India. I like red banana, hill plantain, green varieties and so on

  • @archieloisdelapena9128
    @archieloisdelapena9128 Před 3 lety +276

    World: oh no we only have 1 type of banana left!
    Philippines: Meh, we have more than 10 types of banana😆😆😆

    • @rhongerona776
      @rhongerona776 Před 3 lety +4

      .dito samin binibilad lng yan sa tabing kalsada..

    • @mangoface7914
      @mangoface7914 Před 3 lety +4

      Same in bangladesh! So many varieties! Seeded ones too!

    • @rosekay5031
      @rosekay5031 Před 3 lety +7

      It's very U.S.A, yes?

    • @primarchkhas726
      @primarchkhas726 Před 3 lety +3

      Also multiple types of "women"

    • @yessumyecrad
      @yessumyecrad Před 3 lety +3

      I really want to try all different bananas! The cavandish is kind of bland.

  • @bigb1209
    @bigb1209 Před 7 lety +131

    I'm so freaking terrified over this that I don't think I will be able to sleep.

  • @daddy_oh_vekx5536
    @daddy_oh_vekx5536 Před 3 lety +22

    I've never been so jealous of an entire generation until now

  • @FloozieOne
    @FloozieOne Před rokem +4

    My favorites are the little red bananas that come in a "hand stalk", that is they grow side-by-side like fingers instead of in a bunch like "regular" bananas. They are sweet and have a creamier texture but they do go bad faster so you have to eat them quicker; not a big problem since they are only about 4 bites big. Every now and then I will see them in the produce section but it is becoming rarer and rarer and the quality is descending just like the supply.

  • @effyleven
    @effyleven Před 8 lety +2311

    Aha! That explains why bananas taste different to when I was a kid. They are DIFFERENT bananas.

    • @user-kk5kr5ys6i
      @user-kk5kr5ys6i Před 8 lety +78

      +effyleven
      Same with hydroponically grown tomatoes. Taste completely different from naturally grown ones.

    • @Gnurklesquimp
      @Gnurklesquimp Před 8 lety +17

      +p123 Those ones actually have alot less of a ''planty'' taste and more of a sweet taste, don't they? That'd actually be quite surprising to me..
      But I suppose the more planty ones could perhaps be much more efficiently produced, as a reason for it's commercial succes.
      I think I've read how this applies to strawberries aswell, though I might be wrong with either case

    • @sputnut
      @sputnut Před 8 lety +119

      +effyleven It really depends on your age... Gros Michel bananas were phased out in the late 50's. They are not extinct, though. I have one growing in my yard right now. I can't wait to try one.

    • @pretentiousred6159
      @pretentiousred6159 Před 8 lety +13

      +sputnut really? Are you pulling my leg?

    • @sputnut
      @sputnut Před 8 lety +51

      +PretentiousRed Seriously. I got it from a guy on Amazon whom I more recently met online on bananas.org. It's the real deal, but only a foot tall right now is all. In some central American places and even a few islands in the Caribbean and Hawaii, people still grow them. In Hawaii they are called Bluefields and other places have local names for them as well but most places recognize the name Gros Michel (Pronounced gro mishel) or Big Mike.

  • @grantzolldan
    @grantzolldan Před 4 lety +112

    Every few months I'm able to whip out this knowledge in random conversation.

  • @jsalsy
    @jsalsy Před 2 lety +7

    Thank you for being precise and less time consuming than the other drawn out explanation videos on here 🤟👍

  • @leesanders6490
    @leesanders6490 Před 3 lety +12

    I remember how good the bananas were when I was growing up in the 60's. I knew they went extinct but I never knew the name Gros Michel until now.

    • @tissuepaper9962
      @tissuepaper9962 Před 2 lety

      They didn't actually go extinct, they just aren't grown at an industrial scale anymore. You can still buy the trees and the fruit online.

  • @allianceofsteel
    @allianceofsteel Před 8 lety +178

    The Gros Michel is still grown and is exported all over the world and is not extinct.. it just isn't as widely grown as before due to it being hit hard by the wilt.. I'd like to get my hands on one... be interesting to taste one..

    • @lazlieni
      @lazlieni Před 8 lety +21

      True. I live in Jamaica and we have it there

    • @allianceofsteel
      @allianceofsteel Před 8 lety +5

      Now if only I could get a bunch of greenies shipped here lol.
      Love the darn things

    • @apiiidme
      @apiiidme Před 8 lety +2

      +Justin O'Higgins in indonesia too btw :)

    • @luckysocutegianna1925
      @luckysocutegianna1925 Před 8 lety

      +Justin O'Higgins true

    • @N8IsCool
      @N8IsCool Před 8 lety +4

      thats what she said

  • @samseidel9917
    @samseidel9917 Před 8 lety +19

    I can confirm that this truth was terrifying!

  • @seratheeducatedfeline4227

    I remember getting a small bunch of stubby bananas in Goa on holiday as a kid and promptly discovering they tasted very different to every banana I had eaten before. Not the best way to find out about monocultures, but I did brighten an elephant’s day with the rest of those bananas.

  • @bthomson
    @bthomson Před rokem

    You speak so well! It is pleasure to listen! Clear, precise, and fast but NOT too fast! Thank you!

  • @lavender_queso
    @lavender_queso Před 7 lety +694

    Lmao, I've always wondered why I love "actual" bananas but hate banana flavored things.

    • @CodeNameBoomy
      @CodeNameBoomy Před 7 lety +31

      I'm the exact opposite. I hate bananas except plantain but love the banana flavored/shaped sweets

    • @satansamael666
      @satansamael666 Před 7 lety +11

      Lav Queso and we guys all love our own bananas...

    • @FidaAifiya
      @FidaAifiya Před 7 lety +17

      maybe because banana flavor has weird ethanol-like aftertaste. i don't know if it's really ethanol or not, but to my tongue it stings like unpleasant 'yellowish' ethanol.

    • @MajatekYT
      @MajatekYT Před 7 lety +8

      It's also because that banana "flavour" is in reality a combination of several flavours and chemicals that add nuance to the taste. It's like comparing stereo music to a mono track - sure, you can have the same song played in mono instead of stereo, but it's not the same. You're effectively getting a one-dimensional (or "mono", not "stereo") taste profile when you eat sweets that are banana flavoured. Scientists have been struggling to replicate the complex characteristics of real bananas for a long while now.

    • @missbieber4400
      @missbieber4400 Před 7 lety

      Lav Queso iii

  • @adjaniaguilar
    @adjaniaguilar Před 4 lety +396

    There are so many types of bananas in the Philippines. We even have banana ketchup.

    • @lessx7949
      @lessx7949 Před 4 lety +28

      In Thailand too, My mom is from the Philippines I visited her home there and had an Amazing time in such a beautiful country.

    • @dindixie
      @dindixie Před 4 lety +12

      I miss the Señorita bananas and lumpia made with the fat red cooking bananas. Beautiful country!

    • @unclesamuk8687
      @unclesamuk8687 Před 4 lety +10

      boy you should have seen and ate the jungle variety (found deep in the jungles). Taste good albeit very tiny.

    • @saintroddy
      @saintroddy Před 4 lety +2

      UFC blue ketchup master race

    • @jakobraahauge7299
      @jakobraahauge7299 Před 4 lety +6

      Even Hawaii grows several kinds of banana - they have one called The Blue Banana! I'm from Denmark and we only have Cavendish and plantains - I wish we had many different, like apples! We are much smaller than America but you can easily buy many more different kinds of apples and I think that is wonderful!

  • @alanaweaver8942
    @alanaweaver8942 Před 3 lety +6

    Now I understand why Rasta grows different varieties of bananas in Jam Rock

  • @Fanatic17
    @Fanatic17 Před 3 lety +32

    "It's not 50 shades of grey"
    Ah yes contemporary references, still valid in 2021

  • @terrietackett8964
    @terrietackett8964 Před 6 lety +127

    I'm 64, and remember with great affection the Gros Michel...

    • @norielsylvire4097
      @norielsylvire4097 Před 5 lety +6

      Terrie Tackett How was it? How did it taste?

    • @tikkidaddy
      @tikkidaddy Před 5 lety +1

      Dey was wondermous I gaurontee!😄😄

    • @lcdream4213
      @lcdream4213 Před 5 lety +14

      Behold the elder

    • @MyRedHulk
      @MyRedHulk Před 5 lety +14

      Teach us your secrets, oh revered ancient one.

    • @TheWunder
      @TheWunder Před 5 lety +5

      You can still buy Gross Michelle. They're very expensive though.

  • @catrat1967
    @catrat1967 Před 3 lety +34

    When in the army in Asia in 1966, the bananas were so good, now I know why!

  • @ef4947
    @ef4947 Před 2 lety +3

    Banana flavoured candy also tastes different because they don't use the entire flavour profile of the banana. They split up the flavour into different characteristics and candy often uses only one of these, the strongest. I forgot what it is but the actual flavouring has a number/name.

    • @chemknapp
      @chemknapp Před rokem

      isoamyl acetate... an ester

    • @ef4947
      @ef4947 Před rokem

      @@chemknapp thanks :)

  • @southwestplantguy
    @southwestplantguy Před 2 lety +5

    I ran a produce department for years and we always joked about the fact that bananas are basically GMO, and there is a huge amount of people who believe that our banana has a seed at the bottom of the peel lol

  • @TheGuyInTheLoo
    @TheGuyInTheLoo Před 8 lety +89

    So basically... those "organic" bananas they sell are actually genetically engineered not organic.

    • @joonghokim7930
      @joonghokim7930 Před 8 lety +46

      Organic doesn't mean not GMO, organic means that it isn't grown with the use of pesticides.

    • @tylerpeterson4726
      @tylerpeterson4726 Před 8 lety +3

      +Davey Peacock The USDA definition of organic requires the plant to not be a GMO, but it is unlikely that banana growers outside the US would be able to go to the USDA for certification. Instead they are certified by organizations that happen to permit GMO's.

    • @jasonslade6259
      @jasonslade6259 Před 8 lety +10

      +Davey Peacock No the Cavendish was not genetically engineered they were created by old fashioned selective breeding, like just about every single plant you've ever bought in a grocery store (or a combination of selective breeding AND genetic engineering).

    • @kaeldare
      @kaeldare Před 8 lety

      +Tyler Peterson there is a difference between genetically modified and genetically engineered.

    • @tylerpeterson4726
      @tylerpeterson4726 Před 8 lety

      kaeldare I may have been mistaken. I was under the impression that they had been genetically engineered, as in using gene guns in a lab. If that is not true, then my bad.

  • @JadeCaro
    @JadeCaro Před 7 lety +122

    Hmm... I wasn't born in the 60's but cavendish is not the only type of Banana I've ever had. I've had plantains and apple bananas as well. I've never tried red bananas though

    • @grizzlygamer8891
      @grizzlygamer8891 Před 7 lety +5

      There's also the Canary

    • @eugene188
      @eugene188 Před 7 lety +17

      This is true, but these other kinds of bananas are hard to find in a normal grocery store. At the big chain grocery stores it is mostly one single kind of banana. Therein lies the problem. monoculturing just isn't a great idea.

    • @AztecAnnihilate
      @AztecAnnihilate Před 7 lety

      eugene188

    • @alfred0621
      @alfred0621 Před 7 lety +4

      I ate a red banana once in Taiwan. Tastes a little like a mango.

    • @sarasarah1810
      @sarasarah1810 Před 7 lety

      JCarolR plantains...oh goodness...not for me....YUCKO!!!

  • @MajikkanBeingsUnite
    @MajikkanBeingsUnite Před rokem +1

    Me: wait, they're *not* radioactive clones?
    oh wait good I'm not dumb

  • @MRptwrench
    @MRptwrench Před 2 lety +4

    I ate Gros Michel 'nanas! But, I don't remember it 😕. My older siblings do though, and that's how I found out I was fed them up to about 3 years old. (My mother preferred making her own "baby food" on occasion, like fruit and vegetables.) But my older siblings do remember the "banana crisis".

  • @AnthonyTrifoglio
    @AnthonyTrifoglio Před 9 lety +68

    damn now i really want to try a Gros Michel, but I can't. why don't they try to bring those back but genetically modify those to be immune to the fungus

    • @TheIld
      @TheIld Před 9 lety +24

      +Anthony Trifoglio The gros michel bananas, despite what the video says they're not completely extinct; they are however very rare to find and aren't exported outside of the locations/countries they're grown in. But I agree the gros michel deserves a comeback

    • @ThePsychoReturns
      @ThePsychoReturns Před 8 lety +10

      +ImDaWgr That pisses me off. You can buy kopi luwak coffee that was shit out by palm civets, but not a gros michel banana. You'd think someone would have figured that out already.

    • @vogonsrock
      @vogonsrock Před 8 lety +9

      +Anthony Trifoglio Exactly what I was going to comment until I saw you already had. I am ancient enough to have eaten Gros Michel bananas, not that I knew that bananas had changed until relatively recently. I just knew that I used to like bananas, and then at some point (I'm assuming when the stocks changed) I didn't. I find the bananas of today too grainy and almost bitter if they aren't very ripe.

    • @osvaldoraya6696
      @osvaldoraya6696 Před 8 lety +2

      Gros Michel!

    • @mastamage1231
      @mastamage1231 Před 8 lety +2

      +ImDaWgr sooooo, someone has to go there, eat the banana and smuggle a few seeds out right? sounds easy enough to me XD also, sorry for necroposting

  • @deskritsch510
    @deskritsch510 Před 5 lety +83

    You could tell in his face Hank's favorite part of this episode was getting to eat the banana finally 😂

    • @monkeyrobotsinc.9875
      @monkeyrobotsinc.9875 Před 4 lety +1

      it was so big and long

    • @hawkeye171
      @hawkeye171 Před 3 lety

      @@monkeyrobotsinc.9875 that's what your mum said

    • @sundarex
      @sundarex Před 3 lety

      @@monkeyrobotsinc.9875
      You mean he's well endowed, I guess.

  • @Tat_duhh7227
    @Tat_duhh7227 Před 3 lety +2

    So I shouldnt eat bananas? Nah I'm still making banana smoothies

  • @kevinslater4126
    @kevinslater4126 Před 2 lety

    Fun fact, you can still buy Gros Michel. There are some islands where the Gros Michel survived and places such as Florida still grow them.

  • @wyattwilliams7972
    @wyattwilliams7972 Před 3 lety +26

    I love the story of the Banana. Can you do a story of Milk? I'm 62 and still mis the yeast of milk from my youth in elementary school. They used to come in glass bottles with cardboard caps.

    • @abaddon130
      @abaddon130 Před 2 lety

      It's pus

    • @aditisk99
      @aditisk99 Před 2 lety

      @@abaddon130 What? 😳

    • @happydays8171
      @happydays8171 Před 2 lety +5

      That was cream that came to the top. We used to go to the dairy with the glass bottles and a wide mouth, turn in our old bottles for filled ones. That was when milk just had to be homogenized, I'm 60. We'd buy 5 gallons at a time, would last our family of 8 a week.

    • @loraweems8712
      @loraweems8712 Před 2 lety

      What State are you in? It's legal in many areas to buy raw (tested) cows milk. I'm in Texas here, it's legal to sell to private individuals from the farm.

    • @FloozieOne
      @FloozieOne Před rokem

      And when you took off the cardboard caps they were coated with risen cream and you could lick them off. Delicious.

  • @pedrogonzales9202
    @pedrogonzales9202 Před 3 lety +19

    OMG I'm TERRIFIED! I need to call 911. I just learned the "truth" about bananas. I can't take this.

  • @idwolfshow1727
    @idwolfshow1727 Před 2 lety

    Why was that ending so adorable? You’re a legend, Hank. lol

  • @twitchiewitch1
    @twitchiewitch1 Před 3 lety +1

    Awesome! Thank you! So glad I clicked on this video! I didn't know ANY of this! So cool!

  • @casey7266
    @casey7266 Před 6 lety +106

    The way he ate that banana... it... disturbs me.

    • @IamMissPronounced
      @IamMissPronounced Před 6 lety +11

      Frederick Rhodes I have bananaphobia, seeing as how I was forced to eat them as a kid ("eat all your fruits and veggies or else you can't get up from the dinner table!") even though I turned out to be allergic to them the entire time

    • @m.lrisner3970
      @m.lrisner3970 Před 6 lety +4

      Oh come on it reminded me of a little kid really enjoying fruit. It was cute.

    • @luciferangelica
      @luciferangelica Před 6 lety

      that smell...it smells like my grandma's house. my grandma is gross and weird, cause she smells like old bananas

    • @ateebmushtaq4062
      @ateebmushtaq4062 Před 6 lety +2

      You idiots dont deserve a informative video

    • @luciferangelica
      @luciferangelica Před 6 lety +1

      Ateeb Mushtaq nobody gets what they deserve...and if you want information try reading a book

  • @justinmileman7863
    @justinmileman7863 Před 7 lety +131

    Yeah having only 1 variety of banana didn't work because it got wiped out, so of COURSE focus entirely on another single variety. Brilliant :-/

    • @WatchingMyLifeFlashB
      @WatchingMyLifeFlashB Před 6 lety +25

      Justin Mileman You know the game, keep repeating the same behavior, expecting a different outcome...Class, say it together: The DEFINITION of...
      ...INSANITY!
      You got it, class dismissed.

    • @julia90861
      @julia90861 Před 6 lety +4

      how about the potatoes grown for mcdonalds

    • @krzysztofpiasek5682
      @krzysztofpiasek5682 Před 6 lety +1

      Julie Gillam it's just for one company, not nearly whole world. Wtf are you talking about.

    • @noreenwilson1811
      @noreenwilson1811 Před 6 lety

      Justin Mileman sarcasm?ha ha

    • @ramirodiaz2639
      @ramirodiaz2639 Před 6 lety

      Justin Mileman uu

  • @Laeiryn
    @Laeiryn Před 2 lety

    lol the "gros Michel" is basically like calling your banana varietal the Fat Mike, and i love it

  • @jesseeodom2891
    @jesseeodom2891 Před 2 lety

    Thanks one of the few channels that make you worry then calm then worried again

  • @sleepypenguin7156
    @sleepypenguin7156 Před 7 lety +172

    in Indonesia we have like 20 kinds of banana..the size varies from small to big, even the taste is different from sour to sweet...i know like 4 kinds of them (the one i usually eat)...cavendish usually sold at supermarket/minimarket..for the other kinds of banana you can find it only at tradional market

    • @EirinYagokoro
      @EirinYagokoro Před 6 lety +30

      Same thing here in the Philippines, the most common here are lakatan, saba and latundan. The banana showed in the video are the crappy tasting ones mass produced for supermarkets.

    • @orbitingeyes2540
      @orbitingeyes2540 Před 6 lety +1

      Sleepy Penguin, I like those stubby ones.

    • @marshaw652
      @marshaw652 Před 6 lety +3

      The small short red ones are great. I planted a banana tree this year, but when I bought it no name was listed. It is supposed to produce after 2-3 seasons. Hope it does! I hope it's the small red variety! They taste amazing!

    • @divine308
      @divine308 Před 6 lety +1

      So your saying the yellow bannanas I've been eating my whole life I got from supermarkets and stores are just one type of banana called the cavendish banana do other bananas come in different colors besides the green to yellow cavendish ones

    • @eudofia
      @eudofia Před 6 lety +2

      Plasma. Yes, they do come in different shapes, sizes, and color. You have short ones, long ones, fat ones. in color, you have some reddish ones and some that are a custard color

  • @JonnyEaston
    @JonnyEaston Před 6 lety +541

    Damn, I'm gonna go and eat 20 bananas now while I still can!

    • @EvilTwin123
      @EvilTwin123 Před 6 lety +18

      Jonny Easton
      Your bathroom does not appreciate this.

    • @streetliving
      @streetliving Před 6 lety

      Jonny Easton have fun on the toilet

    • @paradigmshift8460
      @paradigmshift8460 Před 6 lety +1

      i think human can only eat like 5 bananas in one sitting

    • @hybridgaming1597
      @hybridgaming1597 Před 6 lety +1

      No don't! Save some for the rest of us! It's too late nvm

    • @Justin-sl3sb
      @Justin-sl3sb Před 6 lety +12

      Commander Strax Dude, the radioactivity of a banana is trivial upon trivial upon trivial. Most radioactive fruit? Cool, doesn't mean it's dangerous, you get more radiation just sitting outside for a while

  • @randmayfield5695
    @randmayfield5695 Před 3 lety +3

    I do learn much from your videos. Thanks from a life-long learner.

  • @habibrahman3978
    @habibrahman3978 Před 3 lety

    Beautiful information. Thank you.

  • @BloodAndGutsTV
    @BloodAndGutsTV Před 10 lety +12

    Banana's don't even really taste like Banana's anymore, they mainly have a boring bland, plain taste.

    • @warsameadam5572
      @warsameadam5572 Před 10 lety +2

      You're right ! I consider myself be big fan of banana. That's because it's non organic bananas! well, Most of the Bananas are genetically modified and quickly grown from Latin america. We get that alot in Europe. Btw smaller sized bananas are tasty.

    • @Jo_ovie
      @Jo_ovie Před 10 lety

      Abdi Adam yea i got some from my trip to south asia

    • @WatchingMyLifeFlashB
      @WatchingMyLifeFlashB Před 6 lety

      Playbackjunkie Organic ones are tastier than conventional since they grow slower & so spend a little more time on the plant. Since all US bananas are already picked green, they need to spend as much time as possible on the plant to have any sweetness. That's why some go green straight to rot.

  • @thealchemist6994
    @thealchemist6994 Před 4 lety +11

    in the Philippines, we have different kinds of bananas too. And i still remember those with seeds which are really sweet. We have big green ones, small yellow brown dotted ones, medium size yellow ones, long round red ones, tiny yellows, the gardava for cooking which also has 2 kinds , and lately the cavendish. I prefer the native bananas as always, more sweet more taste.

  • @briancherry8088
    @briancherry8088 Před 2 lety +1

    Suddenly the most important thing is to now try a banana that tastes like "banana".

  • @FloozieOne
    @FloozieOne Před rokem

    Just a note: when I went to East Africa at age 18 I made the mistake of asking one of the "hotel" (it was really a hostel) employees if they could get me some bananas as I was finding the language impenetrable. Imagine my amazement when I returned and found a huge stalk of about 20 banana waiting for me! My helpful friend asked if I wanted him to "hang" my bananas because I was so short. I had no idea what he was talking about but he carried them into my room and hung them from a huge hook that was chained to the ceiling. I was entranced and amazed. Sit in your chair and reach over to break off a banana whenever you feel the munchies coming on. That was 50 years ago but I still remember it perfectly clearly (where I put my keys is often a serious mystery now though).

  • @jaybea365
    @jaybea365 Před 7 lety +74

    thank-you for explaining to me why I like Banana flavoured things, but I don't actually like Bananas.

  • @MminaMaclang
    @MminaMaclang Před 6 lety +169

    Being in the Philippines where there are a large variety of banana strains growing and being consumed, I wonder what kind of world it is like to only eat a Cavendish and never taste a Latundan, or a Señorita, or Saba. Or never having eaten a banana with actual seeds!!!! Not even in their childhood? WEIRD

    • @thestudentofficial5483
      @thestudentofficial5483 Před 6 lety +7

      Mmina Maclang in indonesia we also feel same. we got tanduk, ambon, uli, etc

    • @shadestained
      @shadestained Před 6 lety +17

      I've never even heard those words used in the context of banana varieties. The only time I've eaten a non-cavendish banana was when a relative brought a bunch of these small ones back from Brazil. I brought some to class (at the time I was in 3rd grade or so?) and everyone thought they were fake, so yeah, many North Americans are uneducated in the fact that multiple types if bananas even exist haha.

    • @thestudentofficial5483
      @thestudentofficial5483 Před 6 lety +4

      E D U C A T E D E M M A S S

    • @vinceespada750
      @vinceespada750 Před 6 lety +6

      He Is Awoken't And You Will Worship Him big talk from a guy who dont even know what a bidet is. haha

    • @3of930
      @3of930 Před 6 lety +2

      Mmina Maclang - Exactly. I lived there for eight years. Loved the food and the people. I miss Baguio and Lumpia 🙂

  • @meleahclark4209
    @meleahclark4209 Před 2 lety +2

    The only terrifying thing is that you didn’t get the banana kris

  • @redearthpaul178
    @redearthpaul178 Před 2 lety

    I thought this would be more terrifyingly than it turned out to be.

  • @blueeyes6852
    @blueeyes6852 Před 4 lety +12

    'I'm not trying to be mean' .... I'm still laughing! SO sweet!

  • @Jake-kn3xg
    @Jake-kn3xg Před 8 lety +9

    So there is always money in the banana stand.

  • @kylenolan8048
    @kylenolan8048 Před 3 lety +1

    Just imagine how much research went into this

  • @debmunsell1720
    @debmunsell1720 Před 2 lety

    Never thought of them as terrifying, unless you consider the tarantula that may hitch a ride.

  • @justapot2610
    @justapot2610 Před 8 lety +283

    This made me want a banana.

  • @200heatblast
    @200heatblast Před 4 lety +27

    In India you have many varieties of banana. Like red banana and many other varieties. Bananas are so important in Tamil culture that they are one of the three most praised fruits that have been praised in ancient literature.

    • @ranaranapratap8816
      @ranaranapratap8816 Před 3 lety +1

      Right.. We have many varieties of banana including 1 1/2 feet long red and green bananas, grey bananas, dwarf bananas, changalikondan bananas and many more.. The scientists in food and history are not in sync and they have no idea we use bananas to make incense sticks stand upside and after that, we eat.. It dates back thousands(maybe tens of thousands?) of years.. By the way I am from neighbor state, AP south.. :D

    • @billysbigworld6166
      @billysbigworld6166 Před 3 lety

      red banana is so good in florida

  • @askyalumumba3573
    @askyalumumba3573 Před 3 lety +1

    Every single commercialized fruit we eat today was genetically modified.

  • @MTBJJ2001
    @MTBJJ2001 Před 2 lety

    funniest thing just happened i was about to not read my text book pages and watch this but a chrome extension ad came up that read it for me so i don't have to watch the video but I'm still gonna watch and like it

  • @liltoaster7308
    @liltoaster7308 Před 6 lety +608

    Why do I learn more on youtube than in school?

    • @speralta8243
      @speralta8243 Před 6 lety +26

      Be careful though..most of these videos get their info from Wikipedia.....Make sure its been printed or corroborated before you take it as law

    • @luciferangelica
      @luciferangelica Před 6 lety +29

      because you need to apply yourself. put downyour phone and go study

    • @3of930
      @3of930 Před 6 lety +12

      GreatestGulag - Because Common Core, or Commie Corp doesn’t make sense, but this CZcams video does 🤔🤪👍🏻

    • @wotwot6868
      @wotwot6868 Před 6 lety +7

      Be careful though..most of the books used in school (at least in my country) get their info from their armpits.....Make sure its been printed or corroborated before you take it as law (although it already is).

    • @Kelly14UK
      @Kelly14UK Před 5 lety +6

      Educate yourself. Don't listen to authority...

  • @walmirneto2120
    @walmirneto2120 Před 3 lety +529

    "We now have a much better understanding of epidemics"
    *Laughs in corona*

    • @batmanofyoutube8820
      @batmanofyoutube8820 Před 3 lety +4

      🙄

    • @TheAyanamiRei
      @TheAyanamiRei Před 3 lety +24

      Yeaaaah. THis post REALLY didn't age well.
      An neither did anything else that suggested we would act even REMOTELY Sane & Functional.
      Then again who could predict a President who was A-OK with Mass Murder of 100s of THOUSANDS of American Citizens.
      AFTER criticing the last President for an OUtbreak that killed less than 20.
      An since Trump put the blame on Obama, that means Outbreaks are the fault of the Standing President. Which is Trump.

    • @batmanofyoutube8820
      @batmanofyoutube8820 Před 3 lety +4

      Jessica T no, there isn’t a virus unless you’re clueless enough to inject yourself with it COUGH VACCINES COUGH

    • @johnyoutuber9781
      @johnyoutuber9781 Před 3 lety +20

      @@batmanofyoutube8820 COUGH, ANTI-GOVERNMENT SHILL, COUGH

    • @Angiehere-1
      @Angiehere-1 Před 3 lety +3

      @@TheAyanamiRei uhm, no. This virus was ordered by the Obama Administration in 2015. Look it up. If anyone is to blame for any deaths, it’s Obama and Dr. Fauci who gave the grant to the Wuhan lab in 2015.

  • @williamm8069
    @williamm8069 Před 2 lety

    I live in Colombia and there is a small banana called chirro which tastes like a date. They also eat plantains here for breakfast, lunch and dinner (snacks too).

  • @rp9674
    @rp9674 Před rokem

    I want to know what's happening now that bananas are ripe when the peel is still green and there's frequent internal scarring that is disgusting!

  • @MeTriviSlipKlokDriva
    @MeTriviSlipKlokDriva Před 7 lety +53

    This is just like that Treehouse of Horror Simpsons episode when you find out Bart was actually the Evil twin all along.

    • @IamAperson9
      @IamAperson9 Před 6 lety

      xenophontiacicidationarionism I remember that episode

  • @OriginalSuper
    @OriginalSuper Před 8 lety +20

    Well my friend says his armpits smell like bananas.......
    Idk

  • @michaelsong5555
    @michaelsong5555 Před 2 lety

    Wow. I did not know this. Now that I think about it, I've never seen a banana with seeds, but now I know why.

  • @cinejan
    @cinejan Před 2 lety +1

    I would have liked for you to include some of the other kinds of bananas especially ones we might be able to use or eat .

  • @lawrencium4101
    @lawrencium4101 Před 8 lety +77

    If you and Vsause were my teachers I would learn so much

  • @200odd300
    @200odd300 Před 8 lety +4

    He wanted to be silly at the end but then realized what he was doing XD

  • @kaiseriv8483
    @kaiseriv8483 Před rokem +1

    My blue java sterile mutant just started flowering. Hoping for a nice rack of bananas in 3ish months

  • @BossMan-yu1og
    @BossMan-yu1og Před 2 lety +1

    There is something disturbing about the fact that as a species, we are trending away from eating food created by nature to food created in a lab.

  • @amedyr863
    @amedyr863 Před 7 lety +192

    Don't worry US, we have plenty of market banana varieties in Brazil.

    • @empirialwwr3082
      @empirialwwr3082 Před 6 lety +2

      Ann Wright :D

    • @saneee2495
      @saneee2495 Před 6 lety +2

      ur pretty af

    • @ericknabenshue5121
      @ericknabenshue5121 Před 6 lety +20

      We only eat genetically modified posion here. Through in some heavy metals and fetal cells and you have our whole diet . Our government love us so much .

    • @kbee225
      @kbee225 Před 6 lety +17

      Ya, even here in India we have a lot more than the cavendish. We have Rasathali, Nendran,Basrai,Red banana,Lalvelchi. And these are not even half of what we have to offer.

    • @ItIsMeTime123
      @ItIsMeTime123 Před 6 lety +12

      nonONONONO
      KEEP YOUR BRAZILIAN SPIDERS AWAY FROM US!

  • @rastapatchmail2357
    @rastapatchmail2357 Před 5 lety +114

    I remember those bananas. They were so good.

    • @williamwagener
      @williamwagener Před 5 lety +2

      I loved those Gros Michel Bananas as a banana Split. ummmm Here is another mystery, WHY was Michael Jackson's Bus caught attempting a SECRET exit from NEVERLAND, years after he was declared DEAD, EXCLUSIVE - : czcams.com/video/EaX7ayE_bcs/video.html found ONLY here. And How did William Wagener, know to be there on June 26th, and film it with professional Zoom and high end camcorder?

    • @oldtimedrumcorps
      @oldtimedrumcorps Před 5 lety +2

      @@williamwagener banana splits now I remember the taste of those bananas at Woolworths food bar. OOOHHH Yeah

    • @queenmichelle3308
      @queenmichelle3308 Před 5 lety

      rastapatch Mail ,how old are you I've never seen one

    • @oldtimedrumcorps
      @oldtimedrumcorps Před 5 lety +6

      @@queenmichelle3308 they were sweeter and more flavorful and had no aftertaste the seeds were a bit darker and they didnt have a trace of bitter .They seemed smaller as well. The texture was softer , not as grainy even without being completely ripe .Yes , to me they really were that much better . They were scrumptious in Rice Krispies or plain Cheerios. You really didnt need to apply sugar to the cereal . the aroma would permeate a room . YUUUUUM

    • @milojanis4901
      @milojanis4901 Před 4 lety

      I went bananas over them!!!

  • @asdsama30
    @asdsama30 Před rokem

    It's been 9 years and bananas are still here lol

  • @charlesjackson3454
    @charlesjackson3454 Před 3 lety

    Hey Sci show. I'm from Trinidad and Tobago and luckily for us we still have Gros Michelle bananas. They grow from what are called suckers. When the fully grown tree fruits and starts to die off it puts out an offshoot sapling which grows from the same root system . Eventually you can end up with a large collection of banana trees. The collective result grows almost like a banyan tree.

  • @philipfreeman72
    @philipfreeman72 Před 4 lety +34

    The small bananas we get here in Thailand taste way better than the big ones.

    • @scottanderson691
      @scottanderson691 Před 3 lety

      Plaitains?

    • @billysbigworld6166
      @billysbigworld6166 Před 3 lety +1

      @@scottanderson691 Plantains are huge dude, not those

    • @billysbigworld6166
      @billysbigworld6166 Před 3 lety +1

      YES, IN FLORIDA WE HAVE MINI ONES THAT TASTE SWEETER AND MORE APPETIZING!

    • @avarmauk
      @avarmauk Před 3 lety +1

      The mini bananas are the best. I live in Singapore. We probably get out bananas from Thailand.

  • @TheRealisticNihilist
    @TheRealisticNihilist Před 9 lety +11

    I'm so angry that I never got to eat a gros michel.

    • @kaiphillips5246
      @kaiphillips5246 Před 9 lety +1

      ***** They are not extinct, just very rare. You can still find them in some places, mostly in thailand.

    • @muzzammil697
      @muzzammil697 Před 9 lety

      ***** we have apples grapes avocados pears dates, you should try dates from the middle east

  • @DarkShadows713
    @DarkShadows713 Před rokem

    I ate a banana once over 15 years ago that had seeds, or at least *something* crunchy inside. And I have never been able to even try eating one since then

  • @millennialseeker7639
    @millennialseeker7639 Před 3 lety

    Yeah. Banans are pretty terrifying. Sometimes I wonder how I even sleep at night. Are you kidding me?

  • @latenighter1965
    @latenighter1965 Před 10 lety +10

    science should build a machine to go back in time and bring that banana back to existance.

    • @matts.1352
      @matts.1352 Před 10 lety +7

      Hollywood already tried this, someone almost became their own grandpa before going back to the future.

    • @latenighter1965
      @latenighter1965 Před 10 lety

      actually a movie did do that, it was called TimeRider, i own it on dvd.

    • @GeFlixes
      @GeFlixes Před 10 lety +2

      Well... Watch Steins;Gate :D

    • @epic_cheese_cat
      @epic_cheese_cat Před 10 lety +3

      we know how to make a time machine work, we just can't build it

    • @blizzard0508
      @blizzard0508 Před 10 lety +1

      DJ_The_Great Maybe if we go forward in time, we'll finally have the technology!

  • @wompaper
    @wompaper Před 10 lety +39

    Bananas - Being GMOs since before it was cool... :D

    • @wompaper
      @wompaper Před 10 lety +3

      Organic and GMO are two completely different things. Being organic means that they were grown in an ecologically clean environment without the use of any artificial fertilizers and shit... Oh, btw they probably used shit for fertilizing as they're organic. While GMO is just genetically manipulated culture it can also be grown in an organic or non organic ways :)

    • @wompaper
      @wompaper Před 10 lety +1

      Glad I could help :)

  • @Mickeycuatropatas
    @Mickeycuatropatas Před 3 lety

    I discovered plantains in Central America and fell in love - where were these when I was growing up? Fried or boiled plantains with cheese is my favorite. I eat them for breakfast every day and prefer them over bananas!

  • @brianwillis3892
    @brianwillis3892 Před 2 lety

    I feel like there was a behind the scenes joke about making eye contact while eating a banana

  • @kaf890890
    @kaf890890 Před 4 lety +189

    “Sterile mutants. I’m not trying to be mean…“

    • @lolicon453
      @lolicon453 Před 4 lety +7

      Just like my adoptive father.

    • @megajcprincess4718
      @megajcprincess4718 Před 3 lety

      @@lolicon453 haha

    • @skylined5534
      @skylined5534 Před 2 lety

      I wish the city in which I live had more sterile mutants. Seems the bigger waste of space they are the more guaranteed they are to be able to breed.

  • @RileyTheCatMeow
    @RileyTheCatMeow Před 10 lety +22

    Am I the only one who genuinely respect genetically modified foods, find them interesting, and have no problem eating them? This is why I'm majoring in Organic Chemistry :P

    • @Meganopteryx
      @Meganopteryx Před 10 lety +4

      The main problem I see with genetically modified foods is that when they take genes from one species and put them in another species, WITHOUT LABELING THEM, how will people allergic to that inserted species know what to avoid? Allergic reactions to transgenic crops HAVE happened before. I am all for labeling GMOs, for this very reason.

    • @summushieremiasclarkson4700
      @summushieremiasclarkson4700 Před 4 lety +2

      Everything that is consumed is genetically modified (artificially). In any case, if we don't do it, nature will, albeit rather glacially.

  • @jasonpike9626
    @jasonpike9626 Před 3 lety

    Here in Poland, the larger supermarkets carry at least 4 ardically distinct kinds of banana, although admittedly not always all 4 of them at the same time and the smaller shops just have one kind.

  • @darylthomas4522
    @darylthomas4522 Před rokem

    In some places you can use the banana peels to make shoes,apparently they make the worlds best slippers