ickplantFeb 22

Laffy Taffy

https://lemmy.world/post/43456304

Show threadTheAlbatrossFeb 22

Ooooh I get to be the know it all asshole who says this and the runts flavor banana don’t taste like banana to us because we’re used to the modern dominant banana cultivar, the Cavandish, while the inventor of Runts and Laffy Taffy were familiar with the then dominant banana cultivar, the Gros Michele!

The Gros Michele was swapped out as it was plagued by blight and the Cavandish was resistant to this kind of blight. Nowadays, the Cavandish is also starting to show signs of mass blight issues and some growers are considering switching back to the Gros Michele to combat that!

Edit: Whoohoo! I’m wrong and I learned new things!

Show threadmyster0n
I’m the other asshole, who’s seen someone on YouTube trying a Gros Michele banana and saying it doesn’t taste like the candy flavour. Maybe this just was as close as they could get to the flavour back in the day. And then, once established, this became “banana” forever and ever.
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Show threadTropicalDingdongFeb 22

I go to the banana festival every year. I’ve had all of these varieties and many many more. I have three different varieties growing (including dwarf Cavendish). You can try gros michel at the fest, along with many more flavors.

I’ll say first hand that gros michel is a much more flavorful banana than Cavendish. Its more fragrant and perfumed, and very sweet. But also, just about any other banana is better tasting that Cavendish. My Tahitian blues are delicious. And the star of our yard is our unnamed variety of apple banana.

The Tahitian blues are more mild and sweet. But with better texture than a Cavendish. But the apples. They’re the dream banana. A but more tart and firm, even when iver ripe. And if you can let them get fully ripe on the tree, just amazing flavors.

The issue with the apple though is that the trees are massive and super aggressive. If I had more space I would just grow those, but it ends up being a few hours a month in management just to keep the apple bananas from taking over. There’s a farm I’m helping to start and this is the variety we growing there.

Banana fest is only 15 for a wrist band and all you can eat bananas

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Show threadShadowFeb 22
You didn’t answer the question that we all have - do the candies actually taste like the Gros Michel?
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Show threadSquirrelannaFeb 23
This made me snort. Thank you for sharing your unskippable cutscenes.
Show threadSeductiveTortoiseFeb 22
So how much to send a mixed crate to Germany? Because all I ever had was “the most unripe shit, ripened in special container"-Cavendish. And I’m mad about it 😅
Show threadTropicalDingdongFeb 22

I’m sure there are some specialty shipping companies, but at the price of shipping, could probably fly to Hawaii (or Samoa, or Fiji, or Costa Rica, or Mexico, or Ecuador, or Brazil, etc). Any fruit market in a tropical country is going to have 10+ varieties of banana.

I have a neighbor who bought a commercial freeze drying machine, and I would say that freeze drying is the best way to keep the flavor as “true” to the flavor you get when ripe. When we get plenty bunches coming in we get maybe 20-30kg a week. We freeze them because things really slow down in the winter (maybe 20-30 kg every 6 week?). If can, I’ll get some freeze dried and could ship much more affordably.

Show threadSeductiveTortoiseFeb 23

It was more of a joke, sadly. But I appreciate your answer 💖

I have a friend with a freeze dryer, but he uses it to dry his weed 😂

Show threadfelixwhynotFeb 22
Surely someone on the south of the continent can grow some rare bananas?
Show threadSeductiveTortoiseFeb 23
I bet they can. Issue is, our importers won’t buy them.
Show threadfelixwhynotFeb 23
Perhaps you can buy some directly
Show threadSeductiveTortoiseFeb 23
I’ve bought stuff directly via crowdfarming, but all they seem to grow banana wise is Cavendish. They claim they’re more aromatic than the standard supermarket banana, and I bet they are, but it’s still a 100% clone of the same stuff.
Show threadKalotharFeb 23

Maybe this can help

miamifruit.org/products/banana-variety-box

Banana Variety Box

Show threadSeductiveTortoiseFeb 23

I’m too scared to provide my shipping info to see the shipment cost 😅

I bet it’ll cost me my left kidney. Maybe still worth it, dunno.

Thanks 💖

Show threadSaharaMaleikuhmFeb 22
A more flavorful and sweet banana sounds awful IMO. To each their own banana nerd.
Show threadTropicalDingdongFeb 22

Yeah maybe the description wasn’t the best?

Like, my apple bananas. They taste “sharper”, and have a more authentic banana flavor, and are less cloying. And the texture is more firm, even when ripe/ overripe. Even when ripe they have structure, they aren’t mush.

Cavendish is disgusting to me. Like I can’t even eat one. Its literally gross. But I can eat like 3-5 apple bananas in one sitting.

Show threadfelixwhynotFeb 22
This sounds dope and as an enjoyer of bananas I am intrigued
Show threadViking_HippieFeb 22
This one bananas.