Bananas As We Know Them Are Doomed

[@VICENews]

VICE correspondent Isobel Yeung heads to the heart of banana country in Latin American and the Philippines to see the devastating effects of the disease and to investigate what the loss of the banana would really mean besides a less colorful lunchbox. WATCH NEXT: These Botanists Are Scaling Cliffs to Save Endangered Plants - kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2qxoKRqbriqrs0

[@lll870621345lll]

THEY SHOULD GET RID OF THE DISEASE.. NOT LOOK FOR A RESISTANT TYPE .. THEY ARE APROACHING IT WITH STUPIDITY.. SMH

[@marvingordon5685]

I don’t eat bananas

[@zapfanzapfan]

Civil war and genocide one day, banana plantations the next day... she gets around!

[@marctaleanvillacorta9602]

@@lll870621345lll Did it ever crossed your brilliant mind that they already tried that route you rich ass ignorant boy?

[@koantao8321]

Talking of sexual harassment! That must have felt uncomfortable for Ms. Yeung. Kudos for her professionalism.

[@rafaelgarcia5797]

“I am resistant to cancer and you are not, we must have sex” My man smooth af

[@koshisunuwarrai]

True. 👍😎

[@ArchonLicht]

ROFL

[@sawmesalami]

The female is ready for the sex today.

[@dytonyx]

@@sawmesalami Only today lol

[@Effortless23Beauty]

Rafael Garcia Can’t say no to that🤔😆

[@darrellsmith4204]

Old Juan is a local legend with that "cancer" pickup line..

[@DR-54]

@@realeconomy5348 dude hybridization and phenotypes are literally 7th-9th grade science and statistically men and women are just as smart as each other so the average female would understand the hybridization involved in the joke. Somebody from the 1600s would probably also get the joke before alleles were even discovered, because common thought before then was it was 50/50 on traits.

[@realeconomy5348]

@@DR-54 Dude, lots of women do not catch on to humor. If you do not know this, I'm sorry for you.

[@DR-54]

@@realeconomy5348 tf kinda women you talking to they're pretty much just weaker, slightly more emotional men.

[@ryibmu]

😂😂😂 Yo ya'll are killing me mehn

[@liligman]

Darrell Smith BB if I were a cell, I’d go rogue for you ❤️

[@itan7346]

Her vice team travelled to 3 countries to document bananas. Respect.

[@robert9016]

Governments have been overthrown to ensure Americans have bananas, it’s actually quite a big deal

[@seancarroll6511]

The vice team paid for her to go, not her.

[@sparkeyjones6261]

@@seancarroll6511 And, so? What's your point?

[@HusseinDoha]

@@robert9016 Utter bullshit!! I'm not American and these countries screwed themselves.

[@jesset3395]

That's bananas

[@OMalleyTheMaggot]

"How is it possible that a banana can be so cheap?..." ..."Military force" Well THAT escalated quickly

[@schiros123]

South America was farmed by North America...If people only knew history.

[@tubester4567]

Now all the Latin American countries sell cocaine instead and kill millions of lives.

[@crazyhorsewww]

@@tubester4567 people have to make a living one way or another . Some time they have no choice . It is sad . Some time it is between live or die .

[@kittywinchester8482]

@@tubester4567 they planned it that way

[@halfinfected5392]

@@tubester4567 *now America farms Latin America for cocaine and influences them into killing millions for profit

[@chiefyovany572]

My mans was waiting his whole life to say that pick up line about cancer

[@financialwizard5181]

😂😂😂😂

[@TheTrue32]

She was so creeped out, poor thing. Closes shirt tighter, restrains desire to cringe just in case it a horrible language translation issue or scene can be somehow professional. Ick.

[@TheTrue32]

Why dont they just spend money on a marketing campaign to retrain us to not be dumb about the aesthetic? 🐒

[@nicholaswhorley8343]

@@TheTrue32 Lol her closing her shirt is edited doofus. It's opened in the next shot and then closed once again the following shot. She's fine lol.

[@Kelvin921115136175]

I was having the same thought as well

[@dalebrion4876]

Old Juan doing his part to prevent cancer that day.

[@bikinggal1]

people need to stop being so picky about the looks of fruit and veg...In Mexico you can go to the markets and they have 20 dif kinds of bananas..all are delish

[@unotorres2748]

Dont judge a fruit by its skin but judge it by its taste. My grandmother told us to buy bananas with flaws on the skin because that is an indicator that it is sweet.

[@juniorr2646]

Yes 💯💯💯absolutely

[@giths19]

I would argue that this is not the consumer's doing. Look how no one batted an eye when the Gros Michel was replaced by Cavendish.These companies spent a lot of money convincing the consumer that they need a perfect fruit and vegetable. This in-turn allows them convert their farms into mono-cultures that reduces costs and increases their profits.

[@sevnlight6313]

Have fun with your fruit flies 🤗

[@jayb4569]

I love bananas. I would love to try other types but my supermarket only carries 2 types.

[@nancydrew1882]

I grew up in Jamaica. There’s a farm behind my house. We have Gros Michel, Lacatan, Apple bananas and Frog bananas. Those are real bananas, not that bland tasting Cavendish that’s sold commercially.

[@mr.dr.k3148]

I love bananas. I usually have one, daily--a Cavendish, of course. I'd love to try other varieties if they were avaliable for purchase. After watching this video, it seems preposterous that A Cavendish Banana is the only Banana avaliable in US Supermarkets.

[@alanmacification]

The most popular banana was the Gros Michel. But it suffered the same fate as the Cavendish that replaced it. It was attacked by a tropical fungus and now can't be commercially grown.

[@prog.rocker]

@@mr.dr.k3148 - I grew up on Gros Michel... they didn't completely leave the market until the late 1900s. i did notice the change -- LOTS of things more than taste are diff from GM -- such as speed of ripening and what happens to them if they get a bit overripe.

[@mr.dr.k3148]

@@prog.rocker Huh, that's very interesting. So, from what I understand, when the narrator says, "commercially extinct," due to disease they cannot grow a specific type of produce commercially, however, such produce can still thrive domestically or in small gardens? It will be interesting to see how this plays-out.

[@rebeccaanderson5626]

In India we still have got the traditional banana with crap tons of seeds . Banana evolved in the humid tropical regions of S.E. Asia with India as one of its centres of origin.

[@zzzzzzzzzzz4543]

as soon as the guy said, "we need to make love", I instantly scrolled to the comments

[@alvaropineda410]

Me too lol great minds think alike.

[@LathropLdST]

That made three of us

[@jamalf9285]

Big Facts

[@zzzzzzzzzzz4543]

​@NonyaBusiness! think you missed the point, big dog... no need to dismiss something i didn't condemn

[@neomcdoom]

KsKeeZ 710 Lol me too

[@Epillon]

Dr Aguilar; "We must make love to save all the banana's!" Isobela; "I'm really going to miss bananas"

[@nskumar6394]

Whose?

[@edwinmendoza2032]

He was creepy.

[@change8606]

@@edwinmendoza2032 you are creepy

[@edwinmendoza2032]

Not as creepy or as thirsty as Dr. Aguilar. 😂😂😂

[@change8606]

@@edwinmendoza2032 :D I think he doesnt know english so well

[@balazs7235]

My mans wasn’t joking, he only tried to disguise his wishes with this banana ordeal

[@katlegorapelang1048]

Sex

[@Jornandreja]

"I'm resistant to cancer, and I'm sure you are not. So, we better make love to save the human race, and we must do it TODAY." -Creepy Banana Breeder

[@robertmanley2198]

He had a banana in his pants.

[@ujjwalmondal7783]

😁😁😁

[@onlybananas4653]

He doesn’t just breed bananas

[@KC-jb9eg]

it didn't just end there...close your eyes and listen to the 20 seconds after that lol

[@motrhead69]

I want to see Isobel eat a banana

[@adamschoedel8829]

I'd be totally willing to try different varieties of bananas if they were available. To be honest, it sounds kind of exciting.

[@realeconomy5348]

That's also what she says.

[@biz6361]

i’m sure you would adam

[@ItsAstie]

same here

[@stantondinger5836]

That's the key, you can only buy what's available. Businesses want cheap labor and cheap products. Anything that is not profitable for them is not going to be chosen for sale or provided by those businesses.

[@tmoney5036]

Adam u dirty boy

[@maxthemillion9195]

Imagine working a serious job and really trying hard just for people to know you as Dan the Banana Man

[@jameswarren2894]

Dan the banana man 🤣🤣 thats catchy... id rock it

[@jennatolls8369]

@@jameswarren2894 coulda been Dan the panty man.. that raise so many questions then answers lol

[@kristinowens899]

Nothing wrong with that!!

[@nerdinspace.]

I would love to be called Dan the Banana Man

[@octaviusgalacticus2253]

@@nerdinspace. same

[@Joebius1]

Americans might have eyes for only one kind of banana for the simple reason that they are the only kind offered.

[@elchucofried5683]

@ArmchairWarrior have you ever been to Texas???

[@amberjohnson5488]

Agreed we will try new bananas look what we did for the friggn jack fruit we love new kinds of produce good point

[@Heebu100]

@@elchucofried5683 Hey guy, the united states isn't within texas.

[@mudejartrainingnaturalscie6938]

Agriculture clears every landscape they can, destroying billions of fruit trees and millions of species of fruits. Then they force usnto buy this horseshit imitation sterile product.

[@idontevenknow3707]

Thats not what he meant though, Americans tend to buy aesthetically pleasing bananas - aka no black marks on them and perfectly shaped. If you were to introduce the type that get marks on them but are still good on the inside, they wont sell, because they buy with their eyes. They know this because americas don't even buy the normal Cavendish bananas if they're not perfectly shaped and yellow coloured.

[@jamesrogers4674]

11:45 best pickup line ever. Definitely going to use that one.

[@robertmanley2198]

He had a banana in his pants.

[@t0nicss867]

Her looking so offended pissed me off to be honest. Like how are you gonna be a reporter and not have tough skin, dudes analogy was solid and she took it there.

[@t0nicss867]

@armenian kurds yallah

[@jashsylde8136]

@@t0nicss867 What r u saying, they fc.kd all afternoon in the plantation. Ask the harvesters. they probably caught it on Whatsapp Stories. Haha

[@greys2015]

I honestly never thought I'd find a documentary about bananas so interesting. Good job VICE.

[@vavaleo8316]

Say his name more like.

[@idk-gb4hn]

MY NAME

[@philochristos]

You should read the book. I had no idea it could be that interesting.

[@खांदेशातीलशेती]

See my banana farm kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3aVcnScprZ9b5I

[@nadominhoca]

I honestly never thought I'd find a documentary so useless trying to Demonize the Big Companies over Banana production....

[@natehecimovich3165]

This woman goes from rotting skeletons in Iraqi rubble to fruit like its nothing.

[@JH-hb5cc]

Nate Hecimovich the history of the United Fruit Company is probably equally as bloody, if not more

[@ledrgblampontiktok7976]

Its history

[@mediaskate648]

Jason Huang any good videos or reads? I'm interested

[@herpderp7264]

"Woman" Did you just assume her gender? I expect better from Vice viewers.

[@Harry-cy5vz]

@@herpderp7264 it's 2020 let it die bro

[@tinaj99353]

"you buy with your eyes" applies to many facets of American culture.

[@smith97320]

Thats why tomatoes are so bland. The chemical that produces the taste also causes brown spots on the skin. So they bred out that gene to create a uniform red tomato.

[@birgenkandie1374]

He sounded like an old African man.

[@MemoryException]

Also explains “red delicious” apples. They look great but are lousy!

[@VincentGonzalezVeg]

@@MemoryException like baby wipes Check out "wild explorer" if you'd like to learn more about the edible fruits of this planet

[@joelfigueroa1309]

Of humankind. Americans, British,etc

[@kakalimukherjee3297]

Honestly, I was not aware of this, as an Indian. Bananas are native here, and we have at least five varieties. We have a couple of them in our backyard

[@Aloewells]

Don't worry, INDIA's diversity of trees r resistant to anything. That small sweet resistant banana they shown in called CHAKRAKELI.

[@sandyjust]

India has 163 types of it.

[@luqmanhamdan9285]

Same here in South East Asia, I have many of them in the backyard.

[@abhishekgadag9457]

You got it wrong mate, bananas are originally from Indonesia-Malaysia-New Guinea-Australia.. they are not native to India, they never were.. My family has been in the banana farming business for decades, My great Grandpa started it. although we have recently switched to Sugarcane/turmeric.. ..

[@sandyjust]

@@abhishekgadag9457 not sure of the origin. I need check this out. What we meant that we do have a great varieties of bananas.

[@kstephen1519]

Dr Aguilar: “The female is ready to make sex today. Only today.”🤣😂

[@kstephen1519]

Fiker Gaming Master of the subliminal message.🤣😂

[@hempwick8203]

So scripted and cringey, Just like Live PD.

[@HeilRay]

The urgency turns the most dry panties into Niagra falls.

[@ol2rap]

I got to remember to use that line next time I meet a hot chick. LOL!!

[@zeken4094]

pretty sure i'm not the only banana that has heard that line................for realz

[@sandwich2473]

I'd personally like to have a wide variety if bananas to choose from.

[@unlink1649]

I know right? I think these people heavily underestimate the consumers. If they would go "yo, full disclosure, this does not look like much, but it tastes amazing", i would buy that banana.

[@Worldofourown2024]

I've noticed that two other varieties are showing up in US super markets the past several years. Red bananas and tiny finger bananas, but they're pricey and not nearly as good as the much cheaper organic Cavendish bananas from Ecuador. We have the most varieties of food we've ever had, but still not like you get in a tropical or even subtropical area such as southern California. Our farmers markets don't go year round and are over priced the 3 or 4 months they are operating. Wouldn't you love more selection, better prices, and things like round vine ripened tomatoes and fresh everything else market year round? Lots of Western country people like Americans and Australians live in such places, but they're either financial independent or they're on sojourn doing a gap year or perhaps teaching English as a second language to kids in countries like Mexico and Thailand for there aren't the wide variety of usual jobs on offer to foreigners.

[@spxdes4223]

In Canada they are 2x as expensive as always...

[@MrSuperG]

Sandwich247 me too

[@elizabethmcbride222]

Me too!!!

[@zacheap6327]

I never realised I've been eating inferior tasting Bananas the whole time.

[@XX-gy7ue]

I do , although the taste of Cavendish bananas is ok , it's much duller then the taste or the Gros Michel banana , but you can't eat what you don't have !

[@epikmusic]

@Chris Ruiz They do exist. I know of a 'bite' size banana in the West Indies; specifically Trinidad & Tobago. The banana measures around 3" to 4" at most (yes it is YELLOW) and it is much sweeter than the basic Cavendish, with a smooth silky consistency when bitten. Not offered in the US!

[@Tuberuser187]

Its also why lots of banana flavoured things don't taste like bananas, the synthetic banana flavourings where formulated using Gros Micheal banana taste.

[@XX-gy7ue]

@Chris Ruiz , hi in New York those are sold in the stores , maybe ' two bite size ' ( like about the size of a thumb ) but they taste like the Cavendish , so it's not impressive , but cute !

[@Worldofourown2024]

I found out when I traveled to Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia around 10 years ago. It was most incredible to see and experience some of the other side. The food, art, music, and culture are amazing in lots of countries far from America and Europe. Despite the good old fashion quality, most of it is very cheap and affordable for this a very classical old world sort of thing based on small business economies centering around families, values, and traditions. Can we say cheap and mostly honest? Absolutely despite that not being the case in the US at all.

[@bibiandjoshua]

Now came across this. In the Caribbean we have a lot of varieties and the ones with the black spots tastes the sweetest.

[@ttun100]

Yes, the little fat finger bananas, They grow in the Bahamas. Love them too.

[@bibiandjoshua]

@@ttun100 chikito

[@ChrisArfath]

11:48 she understood what he is about tell and she covered up

[@animewatch4213]

I wonder how many creepy line the said before that scene. Biologically, his word are kinda correct, but said it in a creepy way.

[@saifeerahman4925]

@Caleb M. F Amen to that.

[@dvdrwsor]

If you go dressed like a slut, expect someone hinting to have sex with you.

[@heyyeyaaeyaaaeyaeyaa3292]

The Mute she’s wearing a long sleeve shirt 😂

[@madamehoefyre1808]

@@dvdrwsor Okay incel.

[@dewzapistol7227]

“You buy with your eyes” this is crazy true wow

[@AlexanderBukh]

patent RGB bananas, quick!

[@ravencove8538]

It was very brief but very DEEP and true statement.

[@tmoney5036]

@@AlexanderBukh lol

[@jimmymifsud1]

Honestly man, this hit hard.. it's so true

[@suzyqualcast6269]

Itz DewZaPistol : Sounds a little too much like EU Carrot uniformity.

[@mfaizsyahmi]

Southeast Asian bananas: _laughs in genetic diversity_

[@anitabedi3951]

South Asian bananas.... Southeast Asia bananas (Luke) I am your father.

[@kswsquared]

Exactly. I don't even eat the Cavendish.

[@feeltheslipstream]

@ give it time. You'll get there, don't worry.

[@roadrunna0075]

deathbait What if he’s from a country where they don’t eat dogs, sip bat soup and shit in public?

[@CALIMA2000]

@@roadrunna0075 you mean country like Italy or America or Germany, they must be a save heaven from coronavirus right ;

[@scarekrooo2489]

That must have been the most uncomfortable explanation for her. "I am resistant to cancer, you are not" she closes her shirt as he says this lol.

[@ramishrambarran3998]

The man has no class !! Very rude !

[@AlexHand]

11:43 this is the smoothest jungle pitch for a banana hook up I've ever heard

[@varunemani]

U kidding me this interview was totally worth it for that Dr. guy, to actually say what he said to an interviewers face on camera first time ever probably made her blush a little.. Wonder if she likes 💓 it.

[@684avatar]

Americans buy with their eyes. Most truest statement ever.

[@sansei397]

American romance be like

[@xblowsmokex]

I’m honestly curious how the rest of the world buys????

[@MrLucijan]

This is true for most people and most countries, if not all.

[@xblowsmokex]

Lucijan Ratajc ok thank you for confirming this.

[@darthhater3989]

I actually buy with my cash.

[@LogInfinity]

Dr. Aguilar, cross-polinating creepiness since 1996.

[@lcst]

So true lmao

[@JB-wg8id]

ahaha too right

[@-_M___M_-]

11:47 casually hiding her boobs from the creep.

[@daniellevy1703]

Go deeper.

[@GrandMasterAbe]

I hope she reads this

[@David-yf5fo]

A professor of horticulture once told me that he had never seen a banana seed until the day he did his thesis defense. One of his committee members handed him an object and asked him what it was. He did not know.

[@cobidbeksin5200]

Meanwhile i cursed whenever I ate a banana and found seeds in it

[@Q_QQ_Q]

@@cobidbeksin5200 other vafienties have seeds especially less edible .

[@atexaninkorea1773]

The reporter's face when the farmer said "sex" and "you," priceless. Lol. She was about to go bananas!

[@hempwick8203]

no she wasn't, that was scripted. Similar to reality television.

[@charlesmichaels6648]

They are actors. Good Hollywood script.....

[@yeetbaljeeet5435]

Isn’t this journalism?? Why would they have actors

[@HeilRay]

@@yeetbaljeeet5435 Cause fake news and Hollywood go hand in hand

[@charlesmichaels6648]

@@yeetbaljeeet5435 Journalism is now all theature, & courts decided news need not tell any Truth, cause this is just Show Business (Propaganda). Football is merely entertainment, so cheating is permitted according to courts. (Isaiah 5:20).

[@bluebison2805]

Anyone else thought that Dr. JUAN AGUILAR was trying to shoot his shot?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@manekain9831]

Blue Bison wth

[@manekain9831]

What time?

[@WardofSquid]

@@manekain9831 11:37

[@Arcamedi1]

Lady didn’t know it was an analogy and thought he was for real lol

[@studyaccount2544]

As a honduran myself, we tend to do that haha

[@DougM63]

I’m guessing old Juan ended up “peeling” his own banana that night

[@wreckcelsior]

Nah.. he's got a monkey that does it, but it was a very naughty monkey that night and it earned a spanking. ;)

[@GuitarguyRichard56]

lol!!!

[@michaelscolfield14]

Hahahaaha

[@RaoulDukeSr]

Hahahahahaha I was waiting for that !

[@jumbo2944]

He tried though. Lol

[@lisaadair7108]

Is no one going to talk about my mans face at 9:52 "He's like awww man this taste so nasty" but the people running the ad campaign are like "No, no it's good you like it remember?"

[@themadhatter196]

I've been saying this for years. Its already happened before to another banana crop. Genetic diversity in agricultural crops are coming to a turning point.

[@dertythegrower]

This is what happens when everyone grows one kind of human, or one kind of plant, its called monocropping and the planet ends up killing them off eventually by some unseen mutaded to adapt, uncurable disease. This also has happened to chocolate plants last decade, its why chocolate bar went up in price and down in size.

[@themadhatter196]

@James Horton Yeah... maybe you can make sense?

[@Vickyyxoxo]

James Horton why do you have to be so rude?

[@brandonwiebe2647]

Exactly. SciShow had an episode about this 6 years ago. The banana candy you can buy today is what bananas used to taste like until they all got wiped out

[@dharmdevil]

GMOs saves the day yet again

[@drewcookies]

Just found my new pickup line... "So... I'm resistant to cancer...."

[@svampebob007]

"I'm resistant to dying, never have had a death in my life"

[@acrispywaffleiron4014]

@@svampebob007 lucky! I've dead like 8 times now

[@andrewbrachio616]

Me: I dropped the Cancer bond in the office The judge: ... gave me an orange suit for my sick banana

[@squirrel9999]

Sex-Ed classes will never be the same...

[@g2glors20]

69 likes

[@helloworld6505]

Im from the Philippines and planting banana is our source of income. It is sad to think that we are battling with uncurable diseases.

[@RazeDee]

Sheesh that man a straight shooter saying "today, only today" lmao

[@dakotac9547]

She is sticky she is ready for sexytime today. Only today

[@dakotac9547]

@🍞 hahaha

[@glamorsocial7081]

Feminists might hate that line!😂💩👁👁

[@danyf3116]

How to make a girl uncomfortable: "We need to make love"

[@charlesmichaels6648]

But you do remember his explanation.....

[@lore2587]

It is for cancer 😂😂😂 trust me

[@charlesmichaels6648]

@@lore2587 They have a great script.....

[@danyf3116]

@@charlesmichaels6648 Yes but most people would not say something like this to someone they don't know. The reporter really isn't hard on the eyes if you ask me. Tell me he didn't have a sexual thought behind this and I'll convince you I'm still a virgin. ☺

[@charlesmichaels6648]

@@danyf3116 They are actors. They have a great script.... (remember the story)

[@Abcflc]

I would buy different kinds of bananas just like we do with apples... and I don't need them to be all shiny and plastic looking...

[@penzman]

Our grocers seem to insist on us shopping for bananas with our eyes. They should be in the loop, offer different breeds and add signage with images about the new breed and it's look at different stages.

[@jennhoff03]

I was just thinking the same thing! If there was a sign saying that in this brand the marks don't mean anything, it would start changing the way consumers buy it. I've heard that you actually want a watermelon that has a flat, yellowed side bc that means it's had time to sit and ripen. And now I don't buy the perfectly oval, uniform-looking watermelons anymore. People aren't stupid, they just need to be informed.

[@NotInformedOfficial]

We all learned the smoothest banana pick-up line we can use at bars. Old Juan is the man!

[@scribtoon7146]

11:37 now that is one *very* Latin man

[@firstnamelastname-im5iz]

The best bananas I've ever eaten were growing wild outside my friend's home in rural northeast (Isaan) Thailand. They were shorten and fatter than those you see in the grocery stores in the USA.

[@bpcgos]

Yeah, in my country also grow a species banana that is smaller,much smaller banana, delicious

[@tj7179]

Yes I've heard that... And probably BC they are real bananas. Someone told me just several weeks ago that our bananas aren't real and that's the first I've ever heard anyone say that. But now I see.

[@cruzsanchez3647]

i live in Pico Rivera a suburb of Los Angeles . i have grown those style of bananas the short fat ones . they are sweet and just as good. now im growing mangoes , avocados, naval oranges, guavas, and papayas oh yea those small corona beer style limes all in my backyard that is only about 60 sq. ft. i almost forgot a couple of sativa weed plants

[@SMunro]

Were they a red-cavendish hybrid?

[@slimydick23]

so you ate a choad huh

[@schiros123]

Oh my word 11:49...I love how he starts using her as an example of reproduction and she covers up immediately! The amount of flirtation I've witnessed her put up with ON SCREEN during interviews is just obscene.

[@marjanp]

She's a very unprofessional journalist.

[@cyka6767]

@@marjanp how?

[@Ericshadowreaper]

i'll use that pickup line in a night club or something, favorite part in video

[@janicefrantz1831]

Yeah, don't you just hate men who are men. Sickening.... 😆

[@Horologica]

That's gross tbh..

[@imph1l]

11:56 The look on her face xD That bloke was waiting his whole life to throw that pickup line :D

[@Nik.No.K]

"Okay."

[@artcasperos]

I came down to the comments exactly for this lol

[@georgenbaldomero233]

@@artcasperos So did I.

[@sfax]

I can't read that facial expression, was that a rejection? The guy sounded like he knew what he was doing.

[@solarnaut]

12:49 "by Aguilar's own estimate it takes about 12,000 bananas to find a single seed " this is not his first banana rodeo . . . it's a numbers game . . . legend has it that he won't solve the banana crisis until . . . the last female reporter on earth has been to his" plantation "

[@madebybronson4648]

I've been wanting a more diverse selection of fruits and vegetables when I got to the grocery, turns out there are over 1000 types of bananas I'm missing out on. Btw this lady is fine af

[@LastbutNotFirst]

my new fruit is mangosteen. crazy benefits. most the benefits in the rind though.

[@InterKELLar]

@LastbutNotFirst I fell in love with the mangosteen when I visited Vietnam years ago. Very difficult to find them fresh in USA and quite pricey too. I didn't know the rind was edible.

[@LastbutNotFirst]

@@InterKELLar i have not had the fresh fruit, its a goal tho.. i buy the powder with the rind ground up.. from terrasoul. not great tasting, kind of bland.. gritty due to the rind.. but healthy... the rind contains all the xanthones or whatever they are called.. 20 of 'em. super potent medicinal properties in the rind. anti-cancer, anti parasitic, anti bacterial. etc.. the tree takes 10-20 years to bare fruit.. which is why i became interested.. hardest to grow plant on earth.

[@janikb3538]

The sex jokes shouldn’t be taken too seriously. In some Latin Americans cultures its just part of the humor. Y’all need to chill

[@futbolplaya07]

This depends on whether you think each culture should define what is right or wrong or if humanity as a whole can have principled ideals

[@barrymcockiner2674]

@Uden One-Eye you are completely right people are going to do things without thinking

[@FieryRedDonkeyOfHell]

@Uden One-Eye Yeah let me just go back in time and not listen. B r u h your logic is broken

[@caveman1416]

Some? U mean all, until you say something about thier family, then its not a joke no more

[@whoamipl]

I agree. Maybe they just see banana reproduction as love. It's so sweet, that they're comparing it to humane love.

[@MaxItUpwithMarta]

Living in Miami, FL USA I've always had bananas growing in my yard. They just keep growing and have a bunch of pups. Planted one tree and it gave me pups and bananas for years.

[@dentonet2]

I'm fine with the brown-ish ones, as long as I know they are going to be tasty. Whose with me?!?

[@bobbyg2241]

Nahh i still love peaches

[@jazzcatt]

I'm fine with green, brown or yellow as long as the fruit inside is tasty, fresh, ripe and ready to eat, and not horribly bruised up and damaged. I love fried ripe plantain but I can seldom find ripe plantain. They are green and kind of chalky and tasteless.

[@scottmattern482]

@@jazzcatt

[@jazzcatt]

@@scottmattern482 Typical male. Phffft!

[@CineSoar]

I have to wonder if I'm the only one who saw the various 'superior' bananas, with 'inferior' looks and thought "Hipster Bananas".

[@entropicpedro]

I literally just came here for the Juan comments... wasn't dissapointed

[@solarnaut]

12:49 "by Aguilar's own estimate it takes about 12,000 bananas to find a single seed " this is not his first banana rodeo . . . it's a numbers game . . . legend has it that he won't solve the banana crisis until . . . the last female reporter on earth has been to his" plantation "

[@blackachilles8745]

@@solarnaut who else would put curing seed into her banana flower ? 🙂😍

[@sylvie7868]

"I am resistant to the cancer" "you are not resistant to the cancer" "we make the love and the son will no have the cancer"

[@lade7880]

gnilttbs it made sense to me

[@refineme]

Comment police... hold it right there.

[@tinamarie6076]

🤣

[@Sash248]

shooters gonna shoot

[@benjs8324]

love the pfp

[@songsabai3794]

Growing-up in Canada I never liked banana until I moved to Thailand and picked several different varieties of banana ripening on the tree. The taste is incredible. Sadly, the bananas from "banana-land" are all picked and shipped before the natural sugars form,making them taste bland and chalky. The same goes for many other fruits. The use of gas, a mixture of ethylene/nitrogen, to make the banana ripe doesn't help the flavor, only the look.

[@nonec384]

but bananas are haversted like that other wise its probaly all gonna rot and be masmashed in the way out of the farm ,even when you live close to the farm

[@songsabai3794]

@@nonec384 Thanks for stating the obvious. The point is, you who live faraway from Banana-land are stuck with an inferior product and forced to pay a premium price. There are lots of food stuffs that have been adulterated in order to meet market demands. Rice for example, is 'polished' for longer shelf life. In the process of polishing most of the vital nutrients are lost. Brown rice is better. Although fruit picked before the natural sugars can form is not a man-made processing deal,but it does essentially render it 'adulterated' from its natural process.

[@nonec384]

@@songsabai3794 i live far from central america but banana tree can grow in my backward .....there one growing right now ,but i dont like bananas anyways , and i have eaten brown rice it takes forever to cook and it has a taste that may not be for everyone

[@nonec384]

@@songsabai3794 but i think fruit i have eaten right from the tree is guava and it has the same taste as the one i get in the city and even better sometimes becuz its bigger and is allways ripe

[@songsabai3794]

@@nonec384 .....Im not trying to convince you of anything other than stating the fact that fruit picked and gassed for instant ripening will never taste as good as natural sugar formation.This of course doesn't mean all fruits only the ones that have a lot of sugar in their flavor, guava not being one of those fruits. So, you live in semi-tropical clim? banana growing out your door,lucky for you. So many people in Canada have to shovel snow just to open their door and go buy bananas --haha.

[@Erikali26]

This was a really great episode and she is a great journalist! 13:57 "I'll save the bananas for you." "Yes, why not? Why not?"

[@1nvd]

11:45 I’m going to use this line...

[@daniellevy1703]

12:27-12:44 one four eight eight

[@mohammedalkahlout3596]

@@daniellevy1703 what does that mean?

[@andreagonzalez-cx3fy]

I’m from Honduras and it really pissed me off when I learned the history of bananas and the way it is to this day exploited and suffering the effects of imperialism and colonialism

[@basicbot7349]

andrea gonzalez I also kinda disliked how he was stressing that the idea of banana as a fruit originated in that stupid hot house, like as if people weren’t eating bananas before that in south Asian and Latin America.

[@V21IC]

@andrea gonzalez The same can be said about the Caribbean. That's where England received the best bananas ever grown. These bananas were grown in the Caribbean islands of Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, and Grenada. I think the brand was called Windward Islands Bananas.

[@andreagonzalez-cx3fy]

Ian Casey yeah I know many many countries are still suffering from colonialism and imperialism

[@Noor-jw2tn]

@Weißer Wolf don't be rediculous.

[@talisikid1618]

Weißer Wolf exactly! All Central America needs to free themselves from the past & end all cultural appropriation now!

[@TheKingkingg]

Greed by companies making patents is one of the biggest threat to food supplies.

[@adolfonthebeat1222]

Let’s all have a moment of silence for Donkey Kong, as he was watching this with me and had a heart attack.

[@anarchyamp]

😂

[@iiiishy]

lmfaoooo

[@vadamsable]

🤣🤣🤣

[@shiningmyduggy]

11:48 Shoot your shot Mr. Aguilar, shoot your shot 👍

[@daniellevy1703]

Go deeper, you will find the answers.

[@hectorb8914]

No one: Dr. Doofenshmirtz: Behold the Pollinator- the person who makes seks with banana

[@WheeledHamster]

You=every idiot in KZbin ever.

[@americanpaisareturns9051]

“Consumers like America, for instance, you buy with your eyes.” Very True.

[@avneeshrox]

Notice how she uncomfortably covers herself at 11:47 when he's trying to get her interested in his banana.

[@DuelWielding2DohDoh_BiRDS]

Perhaps true but definitely some editing there

[@In2MeUcU]

Just how big is his banana is the question!

[@OldHickory7]

Goodonya, that's one of those high on marijuana observations though, haha

[@user-sf4fy8bq1h]

That's what we do when a guy is being a total creep, lol.

[@206-c9h]

@@user-sf4fy8bq1h guess what he wasn't being creepy so gtfo

[@elenawong4431]

I hope the ‘ugly’ bananas get popular so it can shipped to where I live. They are really sweet, love them!

[@scorpio200218]

Yup, the ones where I'm from are spotted with brown dots when ripe. They are healthier for you as well. Many you see in the supermarkets are harvested young and gassed to make them ripe.

[@luissoto1491]

Yeah my grandmother has some of those in here backyard, sweet and tasty.

[@MrNothingButAir]

I bought some green bananas that won't turn yellow a few days ago. I think these are the new bananas they are referring to. They taste the same but i was waiting days for it to turn yellow but it never did ! They are not from the Chiquita company

[@johnspinelli9396]

I love them, plantains are the best

[@DriveCarToBar]

@mike a burro bananas from Mexico are a trip. Short little squat things that turn yellow with the dark spots when fully ripe. They are sweet but also has a lemony flavor to them that almost reminds of a lemon custard. They're a bit more dense and chewy than a Cavendish until fully ripe. So so good. I'm curious if they are susceptible to Panama Disease.

[@altGoolam]

US Americans - Monoculture - "That's bad" also US Americans - Corporate takeover of nations, mass landlessness and modern indentured labour - "meh"

[@BlGGESTBROTHER]

"US Americans"

[@BlGGESTBROTHER]

@Big Wheel I personally blame you.

[@heyyou5189]

Mass landlessness? What are you even talking about?

[@charlesmichaels6648]

@Big Wheel Blame USSR, China....

[@brianwarshow129]

Pompous Brits laying claim to the world rights of a tropical fruit they "conquered". Piss off, Limeys. Que feo esta gente de la Inglaterra. Bastardos todos.

[@irishsantos6068]

I was born & lived in the Philippines, and tasted different type of bananas, and I agree that the banana I bought here in store looks pleasantly nice but is so inferior in taste.

[@raymondkidwell7135]

Living in Florida I can say that the cavendish store variety is the blandest tasting I have tried (and also they pick them green rather than ripening on the vine which takes away flavor). They just use that variety because of large size and large crops. It's all about $$ getting more pounds per acre. Recently stores started selling some more expensive different types of bananas which I like better. Anyway its not hard to cross breed bananas. They just take pollen from the seedless one and cross it with a seed banana. Just not much effort has gone into breeding new commercial bananas.

[@guts2704]

Guy really speaking facts.”America buys with their eyes”

[@clown3663]

That's not really a solely American thing

[@Worldofourown2024]

Food worldwide has always been a visual feast since antiquity. Americans more times than not buy based on cheap prices more so than visual quality though that is important to us who actually use that most special 3 pounds of body weight between our ears.

[@Yshtola.]

damn I want those early 1900s nanners

[@christophermanabat1934]

My grandfather has a patch in his backyard in hawaii. It really is way better. Sweet like apple banana’s but a stronger, creamy taste.

[@blackbway]

they are still available, but a lot more expensive.

[@Worldofourown2024]

Me too. They were far better quality and larger. None of us remember them, but you can see in the black and white picture t hey were superior in quality, size, and taste like said in the video. Profit always comes first before product quality and what is actually best for the, 'consumer.' The organic food industry targets those of us who want and need better than industrial mass produced, but prices are usually too high making it a deceptive tricky racket of nonsense. Nanners is cool name. Do Japanese call them nanners? South Korea just calls them banana same as in the US.

[@cameronf3343]

Just imagine having somebody come into your country on horseback and with hundreds or thousands of troops, and when asked why, they say “The Banana industry says the conditions here are best for their trees. Now shut up.” Or whatever the 1800’s & 1900’s soldiers who let their campaigns be controlled by global food ambitions said. If that’s not a strange enough thought..

[@Helloverlord]

Imagine now troops with a drones and nuclear arsenal attached to their back knocking at your border saying: you got oil and we came to take it...oh, wait....

[@fynntasticmovienight]

Helloverlord o i l

[@boblee435]

OK, its been four years since this documentary came out. And another six years since these stories started popping. Where's the apolcalypse that the experts said were 100% certain to wipe crops out? That was a good 50 cent banana I ate for lunch.

[@LordSeethe]

This documentary was so well made. It's got history, food, war, disease, business, and also, apparently, love. The pacing was excellent, the interviews, as well as the interviewees, were all top notch, and the locations and people were incredibly fascinating. The shot where she's in the helicopter with the professional, pointing out all the scarred plots of land truly helped put into perspective the amount of land being lost to this disease.

[@spardarxsv9705]

Watched it all to get to the old guy saying "we need to make love"

[@rv8804]

No one: Dr Aguilar: “I am resistant to cancer and you are not, we must have sex” ......proceeds to show her his banana. Her: I really don't want to peel your banana.....

[@gia257]

You dont have to peel it :lennyface:

[@MrNick-]

Ssshhhhhh....... peel it, peel it slowly

[@blakespower]

they are still here 4 years later!

[@Paraplegicoctopus-jh3mn]

My man's really out here trying to turn a banana-disease interview into a plantation hookup?? Respeck!!

[@Worldofourown2024]

LOL. She would had been terrified if it weren't a show with a camera guy present for you can tell she does not want to have sex with that man! lol

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

They must make babies to cure cancer.... seems legit. Wonder if he hit that shit?🤷‍♂️ low key old man pimp.

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

Tube Specific that’s cause she was on camera. Off camera shit hit that. He was a science pimp.

[@kennymichaelalanya7134]

@@user-sf4fy8bq1h that's how latinos hit. I know it's weird in many part of the world. In latin America it's the man who needs to curtail the women with words even though some can be seen as rude.

[@user-sf4fy8bq1h]

@@MatanuskaHIGH I apologise for my previous comment; my partner did not realise I was still logged in when he made that comment. I've deleted it; he may repost it under his own name.

[@pr0n3]

9:53 That poor kid definitely wasnt into eating that banana. You can literally see the anguish on his face for a split second as soon as he ate it.

[@blacklabel130]

ehhh maybe it wasnt a banana..

[@roshan5826]

3:12 anyone else wanted to go ''Ey oh''?

[@tr3bor.mp470]

I would go Day-o but same

[@darkempire6050]

Freddie!!!

[@sunofshangoihate45thihated85]

Roshan Lawrence song is Jamaican Tally my banana name of track

[@markporter9738]

It's called the Banana Boat Song. It is sung by Harry Belafonte. He was a prominent campaigner in the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

[@angelicamartacahyaningtyas9083]

Never been so proud of having two varieties of banana in my garden; none of them are Cavendish.

[@lourdesmaghinay5477]

I'm a Filipino, and sometimes I forget that many people from different countries know only one kind of banana. Also, thanks to the team for featuring the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity! Thank you for introducing their work to the world! :)

[@purelyexuberant]

I'm Malaysian and this video made me realise that some people only eat one type of banana. Sometimes I forget that fruit is different around the world.

[@johnhurt8748]

I like how she covers her chest when he does starts the cancer line

[@Menez47]

Time stamp ?

[@alvaroakatico9188]

AJ Menez 11:47

[@Teknique51]

11:44 At the moment Juan the Don seen an opportunity to lay his famous pick up line. What we don’t see is that Juan the Don’s move actually payed off this time. Clever I tell ya.

[@oceanocean2996]

Yeah it was clever...and in the following line the woman said ok 😉

[@sonicrising6614]

12:08 "The female is sticky...the female is ready to make sex". This guy knows what's up.

[@RedEyes_95]

11:44 she covered up them bananas reeeal fast LOL

[@BG-it7hb]

😂🤣😭

[@mark-ish]

Who wadda thunk Dr Aguilar would be more confronting to Yeung than the creepy chinese undercover cops when she did the Uighur documentary. Edit: maybe Yeung bats for the other team and was not appreciative of his analogy.

[@urbanhunter001]

😂😂😂 I thought the same thing!

[@Thecorporatethiefbeats]

@ 11:40 I'm convinced that this doctor is Shasa Baron Cohen in disguise.

[@AfroAsiaticLanguages]

Sasha* but spot-on!

[@John-X]

Who is Central America

[@morvid1968]

Vice: " banana is doomed " Humans: first time?

[@mountainmover777]

11:38 Nice try Juan... I love how she covers herself! She knows what's coming. He tries to seal the deal at 12:06. Lol...

[@syberphish]

that shot was heavily edited. Her top is open then closed then open then closed while he's talking.

[@solarnaut]

@@syberphish is that just the exotic flower pedals flapping in the tropics ?

[@syberphish]

@@solarnaut Could be, could be.

[@terryadams2652]

Yeah, i was cringing watching that.

[@minorsuarez418]

he probably did. we will never know.

[@jalabi99]

11:37 my dude out here trynna shoot his shot meanwhile bananas are about to die... #priorities

[@tinagotguap1150]

Somalis are not going to like this. They eat Bananas with every meal lol

[@TheLagamorph]

Jokes or ur serious

[@goldenmemes51]

To go on the pirate ship

[@warsameadam5572]

I'm Somali descendant that's partially a fact. Not every meal and it depends on province. Tina you must have Somali friends right. Fun fact Somali Banana are mostly grown in Lower Shabelle region of Somalia near Town Afgooye.

[@Abdi-libaax]

@@warsameadam5572 isn't the Somali banana different? Smaller but sweeter?

[@YoungBlood507]

@@Abdi-libaax all bananas world wide are usually the same

[@proudlakerfan]

Dr. Aguilar: "This female is ready to make sex. Today. Only today." Isobel: "Okay" 😂😂😂 Seriously though, cavendish isn't even the best tasting banana. Luckily, I live in a tropical country that has many varieties of bananas that are way better than the cavendish.

[@money_senpai]

lakatan for the win

[@jamjam0805]

Señorita too!

[@proudlakerfan]

@ Have you tried other banana varieties? If not, then you really should coz there are other better ones out there.

@@proudlakerfan I think Cavendish is the best. The most healthy color and best taste. Matter of opinion. : )

[@honkhonk8009]

On god. I visited some relatives in sri lanka and the bannanas there are miles better than our american ones. I would gladly buy the other type of bannanas instead. All we really need is just signs saying something like "worse looking better tasting" on the bannanas

[@prospervandale6818]

I’m genuinely in love with isobel, she’s SO well spoken and elegant!

[@erikaserika]

Funny how the majority of us Filipinos think that the Cavendish tastes like ass. There are so many excellent bananas out there!

[@KamenRiderBlackSun]

erika erika tangina, pitong araw na dilaw parin yung cavendish, that’s not normal 🤣

[@stantondinger5836]

What do you expect? Americans drink %99 Arabica Coffee which the rest of the World thinks "tastes like ass". As an American it's our Companies that have pushed this on us. We do NOT get a choice when it comes to things like Coffee or Banana's. We get what they provide. Sure there are plenty of other Banana's and Coffee and other foods that not only taste better but are better for us, but what choice do we have? You only get what food that your home Country provides, unless you grow your own or raise those animals or hunt/fish for those animals. Which is another problem as people need to provide for their families and cannot afford to spend mass amounts of time hunting or fishing or farming.

[@ShadowWolfXIII]

its not that Americans wouldn't want them just its the one of the only ones that can ripen while off the tree in transit technical we didn't want Cavendish only reason its the go to banana because the original option gros michel went extinct

[@postyoda]

Cavendish i horrible man; it all tastes like the skin of Banana.

[@marcispammer]

Latundan masterrace

[@chikenadobo]

Last time I was this early I was buying illegal meat in Wuhan

[@bassproshophat8999]

U sir need quarantined 🙅‍♂️

[@spaceandearthyoutubechanne7143]

Hi! I make space mystery videos if anyone is interested 🙂

[@noobcj9570]

@@spaceandearthyoutubechanne7143 dude awesome channel, just subbbed

[@RecoilCDS]

Tyler please be sarcasm.

[@HiHelloHi]

@@noobcj9570 dude, awesome alt

[@OAS225]

It totally makes sense now...As a Caribbean native, it always baffled me that I would only see that tasteless banana sold in the stores here in the US. I enjoyed many varieties with different tastes, textures and amazing flavors before I migrated.

[@theoelliott5944]

Fun fact: my great-great-great granduncle Sir Joseph Paxton cultivated the Cavendish banana. He was also a greenhouse architect who designed the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition, served as a Member of Parliament, and was knighted by Queen Victoria.

[@vancouveride]

Why have I been hearing this for the last 20 years.

[@user-sf4fy8bq1h]

@The Wraith The clickbait headlines are really unfortunate, considering they make the topic as a whole less credible to many people, yourself included, seemingly. I don't think this video is too guilty of that, though--they presented the facts pretty fairly, in my opinion.

[@007NowOnline]

LMAO!! I laughed so hard when he said that shit. Her face was priceless.

[@Secter84]

#Same Lmfao

[@seemose]

Lol

[@bossmeat]

What part? I didn't hear

[@pauliedibbs9028]

The bananas have clearly gotten to the man...

[@KyraWS]

@@bossmeat 11 minutes timestamp

[@asiakenyah]

The Jamaican child in me was awoken when I heard *Daaaaayooooo!*

[@user-lj7zf5xy4h]

Asia Kenyah I started singing as soon as I heard that

[@cmntr_]

My German ass was expecting to hear "Theo make me a banana bread" (a silly children's song).