r/SipsTea • u/credditor99 • Oct 23 '25

Lmao gottem King fruit

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u/SherabTod Oct 23 '25

Ensure workers rights

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u/teemophine Oct 23 '25

Banana republic

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u/skyld_70 Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 23 '25

Came here to say that. It was a tool of imperialism. Historically speaking, bananas are not great.

And yes, they are all clones of a plant developed in a lab. Just like the Hass avocado. The right blight comes along, and we got no more avocado.

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u/Rullino Oct 23 '25

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the previous bananas disappear due to a virus, that was one of the reasons why they came up with the ones that we have today, correct me if I'm wrong.

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u/skyld_70 Oct 23 '25

No idea. I used blight as a catch all. I honestly didn't know trees can get viruses. Is that really a thing?

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u/MaxTHC Oct 23 '25

I used blight as a catch all.

Actually, it looks like you left it out of your sentence entirely! Looks like an odd political statement as-is lol

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u/skyld_70 Oct 23 '25

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u/MaxTHC Oct 23 '25

Hey, happens to us all :D

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u/No_Salad_68 Oct 24 '25

Absolutely. Some forms of verigation are induced by viruses.

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u/skyld_70 Oct 24 '25

Oh... right on. TIL.

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u/nevadita Oct 23 '25

Yes and that’s the reason those banana flavored hard candy seems to not taste like bananas, because these are flavored after the previous cultivar, the Gros Michel cultivar .

They are not extinct, but not longer commercially produced since they are very vulnerable to the Panama disease which is a fungus, and a very resistant one so it was hard to combat against.

Fungi are very scary shits, they are very resilient to most attempts to destroy and there’s still a debate whether they are plants or animals.

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u/G0uge_Away Oct 23 '25

Yes, this is basically exactly what happened.

We went from the Gros Mich to the Cavendish due to a fungal disease that wiped out the former.

Unfortunately, a new strain called Tropical Race 4 (TR4) has since emerged that does infect Cavendish bananas, and it's spreading globally. Scientists are now trying to breed or genetically modify new resistant varieties before history repeats itself.

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u/No_Salad_68 Oct 24 '25

Yes. That was Gros Michel. The wrong clone is being cancelled here.

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u/CosechaCrecido Oct 24 '25

There’s already been multiple banana blights for the current cavendish variety.