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The banana apocalypse is near, but biologists might have found a key to their survival (phys.org)
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[โ€“] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Label it new, special, and exotic, and people will buy it. Marketing is a hell of a drug.

[โ€“] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

and the convenient bit is that it would all be true, because most people in the west have at most experienced 3 species of banana in their lives.

also bananas are honestly really fucking cheap in comparison with other fruits, i'd happily pay another dollar per kg for some more interesting bananas.