• TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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      26 days ago

      so small and bitter but you just smile through it and say “it’s so good! 😢”?
      maybe I don’t know how to grow stuff…

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        26 days ago

        You kind of just tipped your hand at your gardening ability. And also that you’ve never had a real tomato.

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          25 days ago

          I argue mostly everyone here never had a real banana. No, the ones in the stores aren’t the original flavor.

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            25 days ago

            Well, the one in the stores are real bananas. They aren’t Gros Michel bananas, but that’s because Gros Michel went extinct before I was born (and I’m not exactly young anymore.) We might lose the Cavendish before I die.

            Supposedly the “banana flavor” in candy is closer to a Gros Michel than to a Cavendish.

            • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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              25 days ago

              Also: Gros Michel bananas have slippery peels. Cavendish do not! That’s where the weird trope with no remaining connection to real life comes from.