I liked Douglas Adams' metaphor. Imagine a talking thinking puddle of water. "Hey, this hole in the ground is shaped JUST LIKE ME!"
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There's a blight coming for the new one, the Cavendish, and they're gonna have to cobble together an inferior replacement for that
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I believe the cavendish survives shipping particularly well, so Neo-bananas might spoil faster.
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That's why "banana" flavor doesn't taste like bananas today... it supposedly tastes like that older variety.
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Not completely. There's very limited growing.
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There are very smart and well paid people whose job is to make sure you don't notice when production jumps countries, regions, continents
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The contingencies they're putting in place for if/when the honeybee dies out, if the blight that exiled rubber from the New World hits Asia
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my dad goes on about this too. Only with apples, usually. (he's 76 tomorrow)
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