What? No more bananas?

[CTyankee]

https://www.popsci.com/environment/bananas-extinction/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

I remember mashing them up for my babies' first solid food. I eat them every day! What will I put on my Cheerios?

[lapfog_1]

1. My father grew up listening to this... and so he played it many times when I was small

God I'm getting old.

[AllaN01Bear]

3. me too. dr demento . a memory trigger.

[Permanut]

2. Just some quick ideas.

Onions
Pickles
Anchovies
Blue cheese
Pepper

Hope this helps!

[Xavier Breath]

4. If this is an apocalyptic sci-fi movie

then the scientists' method for saving the bananas will surely kill us all. Something to think about

[CTyankee]

5. I know. I'm being selfish.

I am weaning myself actually. Less banana, more blueberries. I used to love peaches but gave up finding them sweet and ripe. now they are tasteless and ripe...

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

6. Some More Bananas Music: The Soft Boys "I Like Bananas"

It's a cover from quite awhile back. One early version is

[fernlady]

7. any kind of monoculture is a big issue

I remember 1970/71 when maize disease SCLB (Bipolar
maydis T.) (earlier known as Helminthosporium maydis T.) wiped out about 15% of the corn crop in the US and Canada. This was on tv news and in newspapers.

Quoting from

https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/60663500/Publications/Bruns/2017/Bruns_2017_Corn%20Leaf%20Blight.pdf

Depending on the area, some farmers losses were 50% to 100% of their crop. This “perfect storm” of a plant disease epidemic was a prime example of the Disease Triangle coming together in a devastating way; a relatively new race of an existing disease being introduced, a host crop of which >85% had a vulnerable common genetic background, and environmental conditions exceptionally favorable for infection and growth of the pathogen.

I lived in DeKalb, IL at the time, home of DeKalb Ag corn hybridizers, with test fields all around the area, so this news was particularly important and interesting to everyone.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

8. Still More Bananas Music: Man "Bananas"

[XanaDUer2]

9. Lol