omg apparently artificial banana flavoring is based on the gros michel banana which was wiped out by a banana plague in the 50s and the banana we eat today is a totally different thing called the cavendish and thats why banana candy doesnt taste like bananas do you know how lied to i feel. like there was a fucking banana apocalypse and no one told me about it until now
We are eating the shadowy remnants of a dead species.
In the interest of accuracy, while it was a fungal plague that pulled the trigger, the real cause of the Gros Michel’s near-extinction was massive inbreeding.
Y’see, folks were very picky about their bananas - they wanted every banana to taste exactly the same. So the big banana producers all started growing the same cultivar - the Gros Michel - and they deliberately inbred that sucker until every banana they picked was essentially identical to every other.
The upshot is that all commercially cultivated bananas suffered from the same weakened immune system, and when a fungal pathogen that could kill one Gros Michel banana plant evolved, it promptly killed all of them.
And the punchline? The banana producers didn’t learn a blessed thing from all this. Instead of diversifying their banana crops, they switched to a new cultivar, the Cavendish, en masse - and today’s Cavendishes are just as inbred as the Gros Michel was back in the day.
Indeed, a second “banana apocalypse” is brewing as we speak; in 2008, a new strain of the same fungus that wiped out the Gros Michel, one that’s capable of attacking the Cavendish, struck banana crops in Malaysia - and in spite of our best efforts to contain it, it’s spreading. According to some estimates, if banana production isn’t diversified soon, the Cavendish could follow the Gros Michel into commercial extinction in as little as ten years.
Isn’t history fun?
Those who fail to learn from the past will be doomed to make the same mistakes in the future
I really want the new live action Mulan movie to have an entirely racially correct cast, except Eddie Murphy still plays Mushu.
No CGI. I want Eddie Murphy to wear a dragon suit.
But not even like a realistic dragon suit. I want him to wear a discount dragon suit from party city, whereas everyone else in the cast has intricate, accurate costumes. No one acknowledges it. It is just an accepted fact of that universe.
I rewatched The Avengers today and I finally realized why Steve is such an ass. I can’t believe I never understood before.
Steve literally crashed a plane into a glacier over the Tesseract. He lost his best friend and the opportunity to be with the love of his life over the Tesseract. Of course he’s pissed off and unwilling to help when Fury comes to bother him about the fucking Tesseract.
This is the same fight he fought in during WWII. It’s the fight they told him he won when they defrosted him. Of course he’s mad. Probably betrayed and frustrated, too.
I was always disappointed in The Avengers for depicting Steve this way and now I’m embarrassed because I never understood the reasoning behind it. I’ve seen the light.
Not only that, but at the time of The Avengers, Steve has been out of the ice for two weeks. He lost his best friend, the love of his life, everyone and everything he’s ever known two weeks ago. He fought Red Skull and saw the Tesseract vaporise him into thin air two weeks ago.
And then Fury interrupts Steve’s PTSD flashback at the gym to tell him S.H.I.E.L.D. found the Tesseract and promptly lost it to yet another villain bent on world destruction, and Steve is all Jesus F. Christ, I JUST did this!
And then, as if that wasn’t bad enough, Steve discovers that S.H.I.E.L.D. was using the Tesseract to build HYDRA weapons of mass destruction (because S.H.I.E.L.D. is HYDRA, shhh!).
It hasn’t been two weeks since Steve saw whole army battalions vaporised and smashed a plane into the Arctic Ocean to prevent the exact same weapons of mass destruction from reaching New York! And here they are again! In New York, in the hands of his supposed “allies,” who lied to him about their purpose for wanting the Tesseract back!
Steve doesn’t like bullies, he doesn’t care where they’re from. In The Avengers, he realises he’s working for the new bullies and doesn’t have a choice if he wants to save humanity.
So yeah, Steve is pissed. He f–ing hates that f–ing Tesseract, and he’s 100000% done with it and with S.H.I.E.L.D. making all the same mistakes again.
Archie, (Aurora) had already met Diane (A-random-Mod) and wanted to introduce me to her. So I said Okay? We lived in like NYC for some reason and so I went down a flight of stairs and was suddenly in her apartment. She was like way super pretty and was like- really stunning. Archie goes, “Kylie, this is Diane-” but she was asleep so it was all weird and awkward and quiet. Suddenly she wakes up and mutters, “Someone’s eating my cereal- and I don’t like that.” and so we get up to investigate this cereal killer and we go into the kitchen to see Whisper (Whispermedic) pouring himself a bowl of cheerios. He had his earbuds in and was dancing around the kitchen and we all just watched.
The dream ended with Diane scowling and whispering, “I don’t like it when people eat my cereal.”
Wait, was I the one asleep?
you were
and you woke up because someone was eating your cereal
and you didn’t like that.
I can see myself getting mad at someone for eating my food without my knowledge. I don’t like people taking my things
Archie, (Aurora) had already met Diane (A-random-Mod) and wanted to introduce me to her. So I said Okay? We lived in like NYC for some reason and so I went down a flight of stairs and was suddenly in her apartment. She was like way super pretty and was like- really stunning. Archie goes, “Kylie, this is Diane-” but she was asleep so it was all weird and awkward and quiet. Suddenly she wakes up and mutters, “Someone’s eating my cereal- and I don’t like that.” and so we get up to investigate this cereal killer and we go into the kitchen to see Whisper (Whispermedic) pouring himself a bowl of cheerios. He had his earbuds in and was dancing around the kitchen and we all just watched.
The dream ended with Diane scowling and whispering, “I don’t like it when people eat my cereal.”
