Costlier, Flavored Bananas
from the expensive-fruit dept
It seems that every time I pick up some sort of fruit juice these days it's one of these funky "mixes": banana-apple-kiwi or pineapple-cranberry-rambutan or whatever. I'm not exactly sure what the excitement is about mixing fruits, but apparently it's leaving the drink space and moving into the actual fruit. It's not completely out of the ordinary. For years, people have been mixing plums and apricots and turning them into pluots/plumcots/apriums. However, the Chiquita banana people aren't just trying to merge two different fruits. They want to keep the banana, but add other fruit flavors to it. They see it as a sort of "designer" banana -- akin to the Starbucks of fruit. In other words, just like the Tall Mocha Frappaspresso or whatever it is they call slightly modified coffee at Starbucks these days, you'll be able to buy (noticeably more expensive) Banalama or whatever they decide to call their multi-flavored banana.
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Personally, I think the idea of fruit-flavored bananas is kind of cool. I'm just not sure the marketing strategy will work.
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http://www.greenapple.com/~jorp/amzanim/crossesa.htm
Now, a banana-durian cross, that would have some really good mischief potential. If you don't know what a durian is, it looks like a viet cong booby trap, and if you cut it open, it looks like a brain, and the smell... oh.
It does occur to me, couldn't one kill the health food phonies by injecting organic vegetables at the supermarket with a syringe full of pesticide?
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as a rule.....
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what a novel opportunity...
Details on risks to banana cultivation here:
http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/bananas.asp
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