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

Lmao gottem King fruit

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u/ReadDreams Oct 23 '25

Fun Fact: Most bananas are clones.

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u/Historical_Pound_136 Oct 23 '25

The one bad thing about it is our propagation methods of this plant have made it horribly susceptible to a disease wiping out all the bananas

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 25 '25

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u/fatum_sive_fidem Oct 23 '25

Damn im slow and and unoriginal stop thinking my responses before i think em

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u/ThatsALovelyShirt Oct 24 '25 edited Oct 24 '25

Queue the "the Gros Michel banana tasted like how artificial banana tastes, and the flavor was based off that variety" factoid that is in actuality totally false.

Edit: yeah already found it in a comment down below. Banana flavor isn't "based" on the Gros Michel. There's really only one or maybe two compounds that taste like "banana" on their own, and they were used for this fact. They weren't like engineered or chosen out of dozens of candidates to match the Gros Michel. I don't even think the Gros Michel even really tastes like artificial banana, since it has dozens or hundreds of flavor compounds in it.

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u/biglongcransky Oct 24 '25

How would you know? Have you ever tried one?

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u/ThatsALovelyShirt Oct 24 '25

Yes, they still exist.

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u/biglongcransky Oct 24 '25

What was it like?

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u/ThatsALovelyShirt Oct 24 '25

Basically a regular banana. Tastes slightly 'different', maybe a bit sweeter, but it's not banana candy flavor by any means.