We have no bananas today!!
Costco (at least mine) has stopped selling bananas! I bought a
large bunch every week... now what? They were only 33 cents
a pound, Raley's they're 79 cents a pound!!
:-5
Yes, we have no bananas!
Yes, we have no bananas!
No bananas?? That's weird!
"Girls are crazy! I'm not ever getting married, I can make my own sandwiches!"
my son
my son
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WonderWendy3
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Yes, we have no bananas!
How can a store NOT have bananas!! that is just wrong...surely this is just a temporary thing...right?
Yes, we have no bananas!
Yes - in 10 years we may have no bananas :-3
James Meek, science correspondent The Guardian, Thursday January 16 2003 Article.This article appeared in the Guardian on Thursday January 16 2003 . It was last updated at 10:22 on January 16 2003.
It is a freakish, doped-up, mutant clone which hasn't had sex for thousands of years - and the strain may be about to tell on the nation's fruitbowl favourite. Scientists based in France have warned that, without radical and swift action, in 10 years' time we really could have no bananas.
Two fungal diseases, Panama disease and black Sigatoka, are cutting a swath through banana plantations, just as blight once devastated potato crops. But unlike the potato, and other crops where disease-resistant strains can be bred by conventional means, making a fungus-free variety of the banana is extraordinarily difficult.
Emile Frison, head of the Montpellier-based International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain, told New Scientist magazine that the banana business could be defunct within a decade. This doesn't just mean we will be eating aubergine splits and that future govern ments may be mocked for policy melon skins. The banana, in various forms, is the staple diet for some half billion people in Asia and Africa.
Almost all the varieties of banana grown today are cuttings - clones, in effect - of naturally mutant wild bananas discovered by early farmers as much as 10,000 years ago. The rare mutation caused wild bananas to grow sterile, without seeds. Those ancient farmers took cuttings of the mutants, then cuttings of the cuttings.
Plants use reproduction to continuously shuffle their gene pool, building up variety so that part of the species will survive an otherwise deadly disease. Because sterile mutant bananas cannot breed, they do not have that protection.
Commercial banana plantations were devastated in the 1950s when Panama disease slew the dominant variety, the Gros Michel. A resistant variety, the Cavendish, filled the gap. But only massive amounts of fungicide spray - 40 sprayings a year is common - now keep Sigatoka at bay, and a new version of Panama disease cannot be sprayed. The Amazon banana crop has been devastated by the fungi, and accord ing to Mr Frison, some parts of Africa now face the equivalent of the Irish potato famine.
One possibility is GM bananas, but growers fear consumer resistance. The big growers are pinning their hopes on better fungicides.
One ray of hope comes from Honduran scientists, who peeled and sieved 400 tonnes of bananas to find 15 seeds for breeding. They have come up with a fungus-resistant variety which could be grown organically. If bananas don't disappear from supermarket shelves by 2013, they will look, and taste, different.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2003/ ... gm.science
Ohhh so that was 5 years ago...Maybe their right
James Meek, science correspondent The Guardian, Thursday January 16 2003 Article.This article appeared in the Guardian on Thursday January 16 2003 . It was last updated at 10:22 on January 16 2003.
It is a freakish, doped-up, mutant clone which hasn't had sex for thousands of years - and the strain may be about to tell on the nation's fruitbowl favourite. Scientists based in France have warned that, without radical and swift action, in 10 years' time we really could have no bananas.
Two fungal diseases, Panama disease and black Sigatoka, are cutting a swath through banana plantations, just as blight once devastated potato crops. But unlike the potato, and other crops where disease-resistant strains can be bred by conventional means, making a fungus-free variety of the banana is extraordinarily difficult.
Emile Frison, head of the Montpellier-based International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain, told New Scientist magazine that the banana business could be defunct within a decade. This doesn't just mean we will be eating aubergine splits and that future govern ments may be mocked for policy melon skins. The banana, in various forms, is the staple diet for some half billion people in Asia and Africa.
Almost all the varieties of banana grown today are cuttings - clones, in effect - of naturally mutant wild bananas discovered by early farmers as much as 10,000 years ago. The rare mutation caused wild bananas to grow sterile, without seeds. Those ancient farmers took cuttings of the mutants, then cuttings of the cuttings.
Plants use reproduction to continuously shuffle their gene pool, building up variety so that part of the species will survive an otherwise deadly disease. Because sterile mutant bananas cannot breed, they do not have that protection.
Commercial banana plantations were devastated in the 1950s when Panama disease slew the dominant variety, the Gros Michel. A resistant variety, the Cavendish, filled the gap. But only massive amounts of fungicide spray - 40 sprayings a year is common - now keep Sigatoka at bay, and a new version of Panama disease cannot be sprayed. The Amazon banana crop has been devastated by the fungi, and accord ing to Mr Frison, some parts of Africa now face the equivalent of the Irish potato famine.
One possibility is GM bananas, but growers fear consumer resistance. The big growers are pinning their hopes on better fungicides.
One ray of hope comes from Honduran scientists, who peeled and sieved 400 tonnes of bananas to find 15 seeds for breeding. They have come up with a fungus-resistant variety which could be grown organically. If bananas don't disappear from supermarket shelves by 2013, they will look, and taste, different.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2003/ ... gm.science
Ohhh so that was 5 years ago...Maybe their right
Yes, we have no bananas!
Not a big banana fan myself, but my kids love them.:rolleyes:
Yes, we have no bananas!
Peanut Butter and Banana sandwiches, I grew up on them.. still love em!
Yes, we have no bananas!
It's the monkey's I tell ya. Be wary of the monkey's..
Yes, we have no bananas!
YZGI;865355 wrote: It's the monkey's I tell ya. Be wary of the monkey's..
:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl Great reply!
:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl Great reply!
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QUINNSCOMMENTARY
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Yes, we have no bananas!
No bananas is a real crisis, you think Katrina devasted New Orleans, what do you think will happen if they have to make Bananas Foster out of Plantains? :wah:
Kind of gives new meaning to "going bananas" doesn't it.
The good news I just had a banana on my cereal this morning and there were bananas a plenty in the company cafeteria, perhaps we are facing a conspiracy among the discount stores, could Cosco and Sams Club have entered into a plot against the consumer? I hear they have been seen in a training seminar with Exxon. :rolleyes:
Sounds like a Senate investigation is in the offing, I can't wait for Chiquita to testify.
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Kind of gives new meaning to "going bananas" doesn't it.
The good news I just had a banana on my cereal this morning and there were bananas a plenty in the company cafeteria, perhaps we are facing a conspiracy among the discount stores, could Cosco and Sams Club have entered into a plot against the consumer? I hear they have been seen in a training seminar with Exxon. :rolleyes:
Sounds like a Senate investigation is in the offing, I can't wait for Chiquita to testify.
"Peel me anyway you like Mr Kennedy, I have nothing to hide."
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Yes, we have no bananas!
rjwould;865482 wrote: I wonder if Costcos decision has anything to due with this. Costco CEO Jim Sinegal is known as a socially conscious person, and all around good guy..
Yup, that explains it. Your banana's have all been laced with cocaine and now you are all addicted. Whew, Thank heavens I don't eat banana's:wah:
Yup, that explains it. Your banana's have all been laced with cocaine and now you are all addicted. Whew, Thank heavens I don't eat banana's:wah:
Yes, we have no bananas!
She don't lie she don't lie she don't lie... COCAINE.
;)
Rj, thanks for that, I had heard there was something on 60 minutes
last Sunday about it but didn't see it...
:-6
;)
Rj, thanks for that, I had heard there was something on 60 minutes
last Sunday about it but didn't see it...
:-6
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Trunk Monkey
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Yes, we have no bananas!
Yes! We Have No Bananas
There's a fruit store on our street,
It's run by a Greek.
And he keeps good things to eat
But you should hear him speak.
When you ask him anything
He never answers "No."
He just "Yesses" you to death,
And as he takes your dough,
He tells you:
(chorus)
YES! We have no bananas,
We have no bananas today.
I ate them all :wah:
There's a fruit store on our street,
It's run by a Greek.
And he keeps good things to eat
But you should hear him speak.
When you ask him anything
He never answers "No."
He just "Yesses" you to death,
And as he takes your dough,
He tells you:
(chorus)
YES! We have no bananas,
We have no bananas today.
I ate them all :wah:
Yes, we have no bananas!
Bananas at the right price, in FL- Wallymarts- $1.33 for a "bunch" of about 12!!! 
(Haven't looked for them here yet back North)
(Haven't looked for them here yet back North)Cars