The Boys Argue Over Extinct Bananas

[@halycano]

This might have been the most monke discussion they had, and definitely Connor's most monke moment.

[@killrate3432]

Monke

[@bowserjrimacasualshutup6754]

monke

[@nazibkhan775]

As someone who's from a country that grows like a dozen types of bananas by itself, this discussion was hilarious

[@josezamora1889]

Netherlands?

[@nazibkhan775]

Bangladesh. Currently living in the US

[@theawesomeman9821]

I've never heard of a banana from Asia let alone from Bengaldash

[@malikfaisal416]

@@theawesomeman9821 Banana literally came from Asia, Southeast Asia to be specific. Though Banana in the west (assuming you live in the west, judging from your comment) usually came from South America as it much closer to import from there, while countries like Japan or Korea import their banana from SE Asia

[@nazibkhan775]

@@theawesomeman9821 I'm not surprised you've never heard of Bangladesh. It goes pretty unnoticed tbh. But yeah the country grows a bunch of different types of bananas

[@Jay-ck5mj]

4:38 me realizing the boys don't know what ripe means. Garnt: I prefer too ripe than too brown. Connor: too ripe it's like rock solid. Joey: looks confused but agrees anyways.

[@TMThesaurus]

Garnt said it so confidently that I forgot what it actually means.

[@jamesa8851]

Joey knew. He kept it in for his boy.

[@Gtoonm]

I've tasted that banana, its still being grown in some places. I'm from Ecuador and I've tasted most major types of bananas you can find, the mythical banana is called the gros Michel, it's normally not sold in markets or supermarkets, you have to go look for it and even here it's very niche. It's shockingly close to the candy flavor, just less artificial feeling.

[@LastBastion]

Well considering artificial flavor based on banana, kinda weird if they taste different

[@halfneptupnian8046]

Certified banana expert

[@DaWasTaken]

as soon as you said you are from Ecuador you're already a qualified source

[@realkingofantarctica]

Well, we've finally done it, show's over, everyone go home. It took eighty-six episodes but we finally managed to get to a topic worth arguing about. Trash Taste is complete, the rest will be filler arcs.

[@chikasnotmadjustdisappoint6266]

There are three things certain in life: 1. Death 2. Taxes 3. The bois having crazy discussions about food

[@bdn9759]

Number 2 is false for rich people

[@jordanayala1617]

Nice user name

[@ITzSa3d]

@@bdn9759 or live in the Middle East

[@rockydlr]

Yes, that mythic banana had a name of Gros Michele and technically they still grow them but only in certain areas of the world including southeast Asia I believe. So they still exist.

[@eyespliced]

I think they are way more rare than that. Panama disease spreads like wildfire in tropic climates, and has probably made it's way well into SE asia. I know they have some Gros Michele growing in a quarantined greenhouse in england. The problem with mass produced banana cultivars is that they are all fucking clones and becuase of that most bananas we eat are genetically identical to each other.

[@keinen.0824]

We had them here in the Philippines provinces

[@Ligam3731]

It's been years since I ate that it's really cheap and sweet

[@jomybaby22-anime]

@@keinen.0824 where? that banana never reaches here in Metro Manila, i swear

[@keinen.0824]

@@jomybaby22-anime in mindanao

[@shoyusuki8687]

After looking at the comments, I cant believe I've been eating the mythical banana for granted all these years. I live in SEA and we get it from local farmers. A nice way to eat it is to cook it on a frying pan and dip it lightly on sugar.

[@bintarabdillah4033]

If you're from SEA, bananas are native from SEA, so it's logical that there are huge biodiversity of banana species, sub-species, and varieties. The regular "banana" that so called Western people ate is only one variety (Cavendish) that is grown on massive industrial scale farms in South America that was exported for dirt cheap to the US and Western Europe. In fact, the table bananas that Westerners usually eat are a hybrid of two different species of Musa genus: Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana,. The banana that westerners eat has been highly engineered to the point that it is highly specialized and is genetically identical throughout industrial farmland, therefor highly susceptible to pests and fungal infection (the fate that unfortunately will befell the Cavendish variety if not treated properly). In SEA, the sheer varieties of Bananas is absurd, there are for example Banana Shrubs that can grow up to 30 meters in height in West Papua or Bananas that are solely eaten for their blossoms and not their fruit. Personally my favorite bananas are ancient bananas that still have giant seeds in them, in Bahasa it's called "Pisang Batu" or "Stone Banana" as the seedlings are huge and hard as rocks as a leftover hold from ancient banana varieties. But the texture is really soft and the flesh is much sweeter than either Cavendish or Gros Michel. I think Westerners really missed out on the huge variety of banana flavors and can only experienced it in person by visiting the SEA nations.

[@firstnamelastname-tm7df]

@@bintarabdillah4033 cheers for the banana facts 👌

[@jm8837]

BANANA CUE WAS MY CANDY WHEN I WAS YOUNG

[@ZebraGER]

Next Trash Taste special: "Taste testing the rarest banana ever!" The Gros Michel still exists, grown in non-infected areas of South America

[@axslashel]

It is grown non-commercially in a bunch of places.

[@scorpioninpink]

I thought it is in Costa Rica?

[@soobieval]

Central America too. In my country that banana is really common

[@ronaldvexdian2182]

Honestly, Bananas are one of the best fruits of you’re looking to fill yourself up. I eat a banana a day at work because a nice big banana keeps me full until lunch break. Mostly it comes down to the fact that most other fruit is mostly water. Of course, nothing suck more than eating an overly ripe or overly fresh banana.

[@Nicole-lc5yt]

Couldn’t agree more. I always eat a banana before a workout because it gives me a good pump. Also in a smoothie, although the banana flavor is pretty overpowering, it’s always going to be a bomb smoothie

[@bocchithean-cap3404]

Work all night and drink a rum

[@njcheddar]

I'd take overly ripe banana over unripe banana in a heartbeat. Unripe banana doesn't even taste like banana and has terrible texture, just thinking about it makes me gag.

[@bananagod5530]

for a video that is literally talking about bananas. I barely see any pee pee joke.

[@aspart2842]

Kinda sus🤨

[@aboody8618]

If you're wondering why the title is written like that Cavendish bananas are on the threat of extinction and scientists are researching how to recover them. This has been occurring since July 2021

[@countertony]

And the old banana that Connor was talking about is still around, but no longer traded internationally (much) so it doesn't come to rich-country markets often - it only went off the market in the 1960s, so there are plenty of people who've tasted both the actual banana variant and the childhood medicines flavoured like it.

[@Ash_Wen-li]

Apparently when the British first went to the Galapagos they were never able to bring the Giant Tortoises back because they kept on eating them on the way

[@organicgrains]

I think it was the event that inspired the story of Moby Dick that took out a whole island of them too. They caught 360 tortoises and accidentally lit the island on fire before they left, then got rammed by a whale and sunk haha.

[@Wyvernn_]

I swear Garnt just zoned out for the first bit of what connor was saying cause connor explained in detail the banana that used to exist and calls it a myth. I love these men

[@nickhatessnow763]

Its amazing how Connor is almost always the sane one is food conversations.

[@Spiritxiii]

From what I’ve read up on, The Gros Michel banana went extinct in the 1960s from a fungal plague. A scientist named Berenstein through public taste testing recreated the flavor artificially from those who tasted it prior to its extinction. The modern banana is classified as the Cavendish. *Addendum: Read replies - THEY STILL LIVE!~ How much would it cost to get the boys to a place that sells Gros Michel bananas? Since importation seems possibly out of the question.

[@ZebraGER]

It's not actually extinct, just not used for export anymore, as it is too susceptible to disease. It's still grown in non-infected areas

[@danieljensen2626]

They're not extinct, it was just that all of the bananas sold in the US (and I think some parts of Europe) were grown by a single company, and that company decided it was too hard to deal with the fungus so they just switched to the Cavendish. The Gros Michel is still grown in some places, just not really on a mass production level.

[@gjulia312]

Cavendish now facing their own fungi infection too

[@JustInCaseD]

Bro I freakin’ died laughing when Connor started making Jurassic Park noises while pretending to make fine cuisine of a long neck

[@argreenboo]

so my aunt had ordered some of those Gros Michel like 3 years ago and i gotta say i think it was the best banana i've ever had it was very sweet, so soft/creamy, and smelled really strong once you started peeling it. so i'm all for a trash taste blind taste test similar to the beer tasting episode.

[@ArcDragoon]

The Giant Tortoise was so delicious that it was used to make other almost inedible food delicious. It was one of the reasons why the Dodo went extinct. The fat from the Giant Tortoise was so delicious, that it made the terrible tasting Dodo high quality when cooked together. In addition, the Giant Tortoise also had the plus of housing fresh water inside of itself. So, when it was on a ship, it would be both a source of food and water.

[@mynameismatt9718]

13:05 Garnt and Joey says the word “stupid” in sync.

[@danieljensen2626]

The old bananas still exist! They are called Gros Michel, you can probably order them online somewhere. They just aren't mass produced anymore. I think dodos were actually killed by imported animals (on top of habitat loss). I seem to remember something about pigs eating/destroying all their eggs.

[@OBIIIIIIIII]

Meanwhile in the UK, KFC runs out of chicken every time theres an odd gust of wind

[@thelast9112]

as a filipino ive never thought that much of bananas now that i think about it. because there so much bananas all year round and you can buy them cheap and also there is always someone in the neighborhood that has a banana tree/s that can give a bunch of bananas or some relative that has fruit farm, the green bananas which delicious when boiled and some normal yellow bananas(though rarer). the same could be said with mangoes

[@FunkyFyreMunky]

I've made a banana wine, based on a Ugandan recipe. It's like drinking banana bread. Good news, by the way: the Gros Michel, while officially extinct, is not *actually* extinct. It was wiped out by a fungal infection to the extent that it could no longer support an industry, but some samples do remain and there are continuing efforts to cross them with the Cavendish to make a more hardy variety. Edit: The extinction of the giant tortoise is a tragedy. Sailors would stop at the island, pick up a few for their journey and keep them aboard, letting them eat scraps until they were ready to be cooked. Charles Darwin was (ironically) one of those that ate it into extinction when he was sailing on The Beagle and writing his book on the theory of evolution.

[@wchan39]

If it's still around, how is it 'extinct'? Shouldn't it be more like 'endangered'?

[@FunkyFyreMunky]

@@wchan39 There's "extinct" and there's "extinct in the wild". There are so few cases of an organism bouncing back from "extinct in the wild" that there is little practical difference between the two. As far as I know the only Gros Michel to still survive are on a couple of islands, on tiny plantations that are yet to be infected with the fungus that wiped the rest out. Unless they are hybridised, or genetically modified they are a gnat's chuff away from actual extinction.

[@alexandervowles3518]

The tortoises had clean water in a membrane within their body too, another reason why they were captured.

[@Sth_Magical]

To be fair, Japan uses a SIGNIFICANTLY higher amount of pesticides and their food standards allow over 1500 food additives, many of which are banned in other countries.

[@scorpioninpink]

This is true.

[@thatsinteresting3415]

what about food subtractives?

[@linokuma6559]

Garnt would love this fact. In southeast Asia there's infamous "Red Banana". Locals called them "Genderuwo Banana" (Genderuwo is some sort of local Akuma/ Devil) and it only grows in 1/5 Ratio. It's sweeter and plumpier than the other variety because of the gene abnormalities . After it bears the red banana, it'll never bears the same red banana again. So yeah it's practically "IRL-Once In The Lifetime- Gachafied - Banana" It costs same as regular banana because it's just red skinned banana. Locals wouldn't put a higher price because in the end of the week it'll rot just like the regular banana. So yeah... That's amazing. (about $2-$3 for each hand (about 10-14 fruits each hands)).

[@Willias]

"Most animals are eaten to death" is a real "People die when they are killed" moment.

[@experience_point6233]

I love how Trash Taste boys talks about everything from Anime and Games, to poo and banana.

[@fuyufuiba9641]

They can really argue over everything lmao

[@NateLeonhart]

Turtle and tortoise meat is supposedly very good. I've never had it myself, since it's been illegal since a little before I was born, but it was a huge meat product back in the day. Sold at exorbitant prices, marketed mainly towards tourists.

[@jlee3756]

turtle dishes were the favorite of at least a couple U.S. presidents, but the meat’s popularity led (predictably) to overhunting 😢 it’s interesting to see how cultural attitudes toward certain foods can change so quickly!

[@somechinesedude5466]

I tasted it, kinda like gummy chicken, not fibery & quite lot of cartilage Its like chicken tasting beef, usually boiled with medicinal herbs soups Never seen it being roasted, sauted or fried, probably not fit for it

[@stephensteinhauer3346]

Different parts of the turtle taste different. Some meat tastes a bit like chicken or other fowl, while other parts are more "red meat" beefy tasting. And there is even a bit of fishy tasting meat as well. The whole turtle makes a really good gumbo with the various flavors. That is why turtle soup is so good.

[@Ash_Wen-li]

I had one strawberry in Japan and it was the ichigoat of strawberries I've ever had Sometimes here you get unripe strawberries that are crunchy and watery

[@Reirek]

‘Ichigoat’ is the best term used to describe a strawberry ever 😭😭

[@kamui5579]

ICHIGOAT🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶 🥶

[@sambros2]

sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh Ichigoat

[@freemovies411]

The Ichigoat- xD

[@jm8837]

In my country it's just sour and I felt so robbed because why do they looking so sweet when they actually not😭👍

[@BlueLoveYT]

This is the most aggressive conversation of a banana I've ever heard in my life

[@Shantosh9550]

What till they hear about Mexican Coca Cola

[@LAA_197]

It is sooooo fukin good usually I drink the regular sodas but whenever a place gives Mexican coca cola I'm getting that

[@pogchampbro2829]

literally every coke outside of the US

[@ApatheticOreo]

I remembered when I stayed in the US for work, I fucking hated the long, pale, bland bananas sold in supermarkets and I didn't have other options. I'm with Garnt on this one about southeast asian bananas (I'm from the Philippines) since we have different types of bananas varying in sizes and sweetness and they are just THE BEST. That's why I always hated the artificial flavored ones because I had a taste of really good bananas and I hope Connor would get a taste of it one day haha also, I read somewhere before that bananas used to have lots of hard-rock seeds and we weren't able to eat them until they were genetically modified and thus became the modern day bananas.

[@jessie6243]

The way I gasped when garnt brought up eating the long neck TT

[@Lazer-bp9lf]

Speaking of Bananas, look up the US's history on how they (like usual) went in to the countries of Central America to set up a private company (like the British East India Company was set in India by thr British) to control the supply chain of the bananas for the US. Pretty dark stuff I must say.

[@farabeast2000]

The inner monke is starting to come through

[@cocoakit1831]

Grant’s radiation levels must be of the charts!!!😆😂😅

[@krittyboy8148]

As a Thai, I kinda agree with Connor opinion that the “extinct” banana taste different. Because in Thailand the different types of banana do taste different (some).

[@nurajannattaslima9853]

8:52 cool those grow in some parts of south asia and nearly everywhere in south east asia

[@elgamer3003]

Garnt's argument goes to shit, because there have been people that had tasted the bananas

[@aperturedj3783]

Conner: “The OG banana experience” Me: …”The WHAT?!!”

[@kuroakikitsune]

Yeah ladyfinger bananas usually have more flavour than Cavendish bananas. When we were in Vietnam, they'd only put one little banana into the smoothy and it would flavour the whole thing. Here in Australia I sometimes use 3 bananas just to get that banana flavour in the smoothie.

[@MrMonsigart]

In Indonesia we have a lot of banana variant, from sour to sweet wise taste we can relatively find them easy

[@Paputsza]

I think the reason that japanese strawberries may be good for the reason that japanese beef is good actually. It's because japanese plants and animals have to live in a much smaller environment, so a lot of them probably use vertical farming, where you carefully control the stress that fruits undergo. Fruits actually produce more fructose under environmental stress, same with cows and fat marbling.

[@flowerpower3082]

How is Monke so knowledgeable about bananas? Did he sit a banana PhD during lockdown??

[@shawnatlast]

This has become one of my favourite bits. Just batshit stupid hilarious! From bananas to dinos! Best kind of content period

[@eeveeiseevil6292]

Sure you have banana gatcha, but I have baby carrot gatcha. They can be mid, sweet, or really bitter

[@onnnn111]

Great Auks, latin name Penguinus Impennis, are the flightless birds that eats fish. They are visually indistinguishable from penguins even though they're completely unrelated at all. In fact we know them long before we even know what penguins are. They went extinct because people literally hunted them to extinction. In fact, when explorers discover Antarctica, and they saw the similar looking flightless birds, they just call them penguins just like Great Auk's latin name.

[@JasSchMin]

this extinct banana can be found in Malaysia said to be "Pisang Embun = Embun Banana", gotta agree with Garnt, South East Asian countries have real tasty bananas nothing like dole or the cavendish varieties.

[@ThePatxiao]

the giant tortoise conversation at the end is hilarious with Connor being, why the fuck did we eat them into extinction. And months later he's talking about salivating when he meets one.

[@OBIIIIIIIII]

[Trying to not imagine the boys eating bananas making eye contact]

[@laaleet5333]

3:09 look at joey omfg and pause when he says „no"

[@anangrycucco]

"i like that episode where the bois argue about bananas for a looooooong time"

[@pokyboss4281]

It's weird that Garnt and Joey kept talking about how mythical the Gros Michel is when it only crashed in the 60s and there's plenty of people alive who still remember their taste and its pretty well documented as being sweeter than modern Cavendish bananas. Also tomatoes and apples are the same way. Currently available varieties have been bred to be more easily transportable and stored and we've lost a lot of the taste and texture in these varieties.

[@jiunyann]

the extinct banana is called the Gros Michel Banana, apparently not extinct, but grown in small numbers in small pockets of community, because they aint as resistant as the newer Cavendish. Its still possible to find, just hard.

[@SailorSetsuna7]

I tried listening to the clips while drawing. I had to stop, because I couldn't stop laughing over the mythical banana.

[@danielr8168]

breaking news! welsh man says potato chips instead of crisp.

[@Efreeti]

Basically the process in which bananas are cultivated is more like cloning than growing, each new tree is based of cuttings of old ones.This also means they don't inherit evolutionary traits like resistance to disease, and that's how one disease eliminated the Gros Michel banana. The Cavendish banana is under the same kind of threat now. There are other good banana cultivars but none that even approach a fraction of the amount of Cavendish bananas grown. The Gros Michel is not 100% extinct, but it has to be extremely carefully grown now.

[@Karakuioshi]

Getting conversation from apples to bananas and ending on dinosaurs. I think we're at the peak of the conversation topics right now 🤣

[@AngelxVillian]

Alligator is your closest bet to what a T. rex tastes like

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

15:38 Cue the credits and ending

[@cronoz-sensei4259]

10:40 You dont need to, you have had dinosaur meat Garnt, youve had chicken so you know how avian dinosaurs tasted like.

[@TheCreepypro]

I love how the Connor almost took the conversation to an interesting place about how narrow minded we are in the west when it comes to bananas since we are so ignorant about banana variety only for garnt to steer the conversation into the dumbest place possible about the flavor of extinct bananas and how they could or could not taste this is why we can't have nice things like awesome tasting bananas....

[@Red-mg4ro]

You'd probably expect dinosaur to taste like ostriches or something.

[@tonycrayford3893]

Monke and the mythical banana coming soon to cinema's near you.

[@rotomRASENGAN]

Never heard people say “b’nonners” this many times lol.

[@hinamatsuro1908]

Wait wait wait....extinct food exist? I never even thought of that.

[@Ash_Wen-li]

I mean foods are living things too, so why not?

[@ketsuekikumori9145]

Think of it this way, there are a number of foods that would've gone extinct if humans didn't take over their propagation. Avocados are one such example. They used to be eaten by megaherbivores like the giant ground sloth. But those died off about 13,000 years ago. Thanks to the plant's long life span (2 - 4 centuries), it was able to survive long enough til humans could cultivate it. Many of our plants can't grow without humans because we bred the seeds out. Bananas are an example. The little specks in the flesh of the fruit are the leftover remnants of seeds. There are wild bananas that have proper seeds in them, where they easily take up half the space instead of flesh. I should also note that many of our foods are at risk because of monoculture production. You can think of monoculture farms as cities for crops. They only produce 1 crop in close proximity to each other and put the crop at risk of propagating diseases. The gros michel banana is the banana variety before the current cavendish. It was nearly wiped out by a fungus. They couldn't keep using the gros michel until they made a resistant version, but that would take too long, so they switched to the cavendish.

[@te0nani]

I too thought so, that potato=potato, until I got some big ones in the USA. There is a reason a lot of things from the US can't be sold in the EU due to food safety regulations.

[@MeanLaQueefa]

Difference is the varieties, Potatoes are from the new world. Hundreds of varieties here

[@AABloodyAA]

Connor knows his Bananas

[@j-1698]

There's major banana production in my country. I never thought that that kind was supposed to be extinct, I've eathen it before, I just thought they weren't commercial. And to be honest happens with everything, exported fruits or fruits for mass consuption taste nothing like regular fruits, people just don't know it.

[@nocturnalcove9736]

We all know Stegosaurus would be the best tasting dinosaur

[@PenniDeadful]

In another universe this is the event that starts an adventure where Connor trecks across 3 different countries in search of the mythical banana.

[@ashchusatoshi944]

As someone who lives in Philippines even i know the many different banana's or Mangos to use depending how were gonna eat it or cook it... But mythical Banana sounds something ultra rare but would taste awful... and people who would eat em but think "we went to all this trouble getting this banana but it taste shit"

[@Rahhelthethird]

The real world Jurassic Park will be some guy trying to revive Dinosaurs, so he can eat them.

[@toastieboi167]

Make a Trash Taste Mini Special where you rank all the sorts of bananas in a tier list, that would be monke

[@jmiquelmb]

Speaking as a banana connoisseur, the variety that we don’t have anymore in the west is called Gros Michel, and most of the current ones we have is Cavendish. But it’s not really extinct, it’s just not commercially available in most countries. I feel exactly like Connor btw, I want to try the Gros Michel so much. I’m also so jealous of Southeast Asian countries, they have so many types of them.

[@arjovenzia]

worth hunting down some of the more rare species of banana's, but you do have to live somewhere where they grow and even then a farmers market is the best place to find em. spending a few months in queensland ruined cavendish bananas for me, and thats nothing on the types you can get in south asia proper. the main reason cavendish are so cheap and popular is they tolerate shipping really well, they pick them green, and they last for months like that, and being firm tolerate the bumps and knocks of shipping. then they fill the store room with acetylene, which triggers the ripening process ready for sale. they were bread for disease resistance, ease of shipping and huge bunches, making massive monocultre plantations and worldwide shipping possible and profitable. not for flavour, texture or nutrition. the gros michel isnt extinct exactly, but the plantations got infected (I think it was a fungus). in regions where it was a major cash crop, they ceased being a viable crop. but if your a farmer with everything set up to grow and process and export bananas, you have to find an alternative. and its not like people in new york or london know what they are missing out on, if its yellowish with a bit of a curve in it, its a banana.

[@Purwapada]

there are loads of banana varieties, in Ecuador there are red/black ones. THeres a outube channel called weird fruit explorer that tastes different kinds of fruit

[@GriffonPeace]

There's a blue banana that tastes like vanilla icecream

[@anasianemo]

YES GARNT!!! Southeast Asian bananas are great and I miss them!

[@sudeep.v8776]

I love how joey ate insects but weirded out by people eating a turtle...

[@done3732]

A trex would have tasted amazing I’ve never had bad dinosaur it gets dry sometimes but it always tastes good

[@randomcow505]

On the topic of strawberries UK summer strawberies are second to none the trick is to find the box where the strawberies are pretty small BUT they need to be shaped like a cut diamond the top where it meets the leaves has to be slightly pointy, not indented or flat at first I thought this was just luck, as I noticed they tasted 1000x better than the other ones in the box so I got a couple boxes from various supermarkets and sorted the strawberrys into pointed and not pointed ones and sure as hell, yea they are better my guess is they are either a slightly diferent strain that just grows in strawberry fields, or they are being polinated by a diferent type but they taste like large alpine strawberies, and not like water like the larger strawberrys do

[@driprubies2464]

Best time to eat a nana is when it’s got brown on the peel…. The more brown on the peel the more actual potassium is in the fruit also more flavor!!

[@flowerpower3082]

That sounds like the healthier option, but I like my nanas slightly crunchy, not a bruise or blemish in sight.

[@retrohipster1060]

This conversation was so hilarious to because Joey was just losing his s*** in the background while they were arguing the entire time. 😂

[@Lilitha11]

I am not a fan of banana flavored stuff in general, but I have had some really really good banana smoothies before. One I got from a smoothie shop here in the US and one from a random vending machine in Japan, both were amazing. I don't drink enough to really know for sure but I think there is something about the blend of milk and bananas that makes them taste really good together, even though I am not a huge fan of either separately.

[@erushi5503]

Connor is gonna love Philippines, we have like a dozen kinds of bananas in each province ahahaha We have small ones big ones, green, violet, red, yellow, i think theres a blue one too?

[@MrTrill409]

Oh also heard of this mythical banana and I too will make it my life’s mission to try it.

[@chuckthetrooper]

Connor unleashing his true MONKE in his take on bananas. A true banana connoisseur at heart

[@thomaspunt2646]

An herbivore like a triceratops or stegosaurus would probably taste better than a T-Rex or raptor. The reason why I think carnivorous dinosaurs would taste bad is the same reason living carnivores taste bad, that being the fact that carnivores accumulate more toxins from their food than herbivores. The best example is fish having high concentrations of mercury from eating shrimp that had high mercury concentrations already. This point is actually brought up in Part 5 of Jojo's when Mista claims that humans would taste gross because they eat meat. As a biology student and lifelong dinosaur lover, I'm genuinely interested in what the answer might be.

[@TheToneBender]

I love bananas and generally eat one every day (just ever so slightly green, preferably). But I can only eat them when I'm eating them fast and am distracted by something. If I am too conscious of it, the taste and the mushiness makes me want to vomit. But as long as it's just in the background of my consciousness, I love 'em.

[@DJCommander]

Some say that Dutch sailors are responsible for eating up most of the dodo's. They were sailing close to an island when they had little food and went to there to search for some, they found the dodo and although they say the dodo tasted quite bad they were hungry so they ate it anyway

[@chezwizard]

"we got a lion to eat tofu..."

[@SoaringLettuce]

Just looking at the title... Of course they do lmao

[@toddbod94]

Birds are dinosaurs, chicken is a bird, dinosaurs taste like chicken.

[@nadeemlo]

This can be a funny analogy on how religions started "Trust me bro there is this mythical land that we must be good boys to be able to go to"

[@fandyllic1975]

Apple bananas from Hawaii are small, but they taste so much better than the big bland ones.

[@starman6468]

There is different species of bananas, my favorite is the lady finger banana (dwarf bananas that are waaaaay sweeter than your standard banana, almost like candy). The thing about the gros michel banana tasting like candy is a myth, several witnesses say that the differences in terms of flavor are minimal.

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The finger Bananas are called "Lakatan" in the southern part of the Philippines. More specifically, Mindanao. I'm not sure if that's what they call it on the other parts of the Philippines but Lakatan is sold literally everywhere here. All you need to do to find Lakatan is travel down any road and you'll eventually find someone just selling bananas on the side of the road. Prices vary but nowadays, you can get some for ₱15 per kilo. Which is like $.3 per kilo or sometimes even lower, and if you know how to bargain, you can probably get like 4-6 kilos of bananas for $1. To put that into perspective, that's like 13 pounds of bananas for $1. That's about 2 weeks worth of banana if you eat 3 bananas after every meal. And you know what's funny? Cavendish Bananas are sold for like ₱50 per kilo here or just about $1 per kilo. They're not even as sweet or as good as Lakatan but they're 3x the price. No one wants to buy them apart from a few eccentrics and honestly speaking, I think Cavendish Bananas are a scam here. Especially when you can buy the sweetest bananas you'll ever have in your life on the side of the road for a fraction of the price.

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Also, I just remembered something else banana related. Most places that sell Lakatan also sell Tondan which is like a fatter, girthier version of the Lakatan. But the thing about Tondan that makes it unique is that its sweet if you just eat it like a normal banana but if you use it to cook. Then and only then, will you unlock its true potential. It's really amazing deep fried. You can also grill it. You can also add it to soups or hotpots. It's literally the most versatile banana. There's several Filipino dishes that require it to be added unripe and even more dishes that require it to be ripe. You can even just boil/steam it like a potato and what's even more amazing about it is that it tastes different depending on how ripe you cooked it. If it's still green, it's got the texture of sweet potato but just about twice as sweet as sweet potatoes but if you cook it while it's ripe. It will taste very tarty and sweet and its got texture like no other. It's honestly just an amazing banana variant. Tondan is literally the Jack-of-all-trades of the banana world. There's no banana in this world as versatile as the Tondan.

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