Jesus.
Imma be single forever.
Do they taste better tho? The bigger the fruit, the more bland they are in my experience.
Depends if there was proper selection for taste. In Spain they have delicious big watermelons and melons.
The big melons he tells you not to worry about.
Good point. Just look at the raspberry and the pineapple.
The fuck aren’t we growing these kinds of bananas everywhere in overly exploited republics and then importing them into the US? Fuck the gros michel, fuck these petty banana snack foods, I want a banana that I can eat as a meal.
I want a banana split with one of these bad boys like a bread bowl.
We picked the Gros Michel (before it got decimated by Panama Disease) and now the Cavendish because they can be mass grown, harvested before they are ripe, shipped around the world with minimal special handling, be ripened locally, and can survive all that without getting blemished.
While there are plenty of other bananas, really only those varieties could do that. Bananas cost less than a buck per pound. Other varieties would have to be shipped by air with special handling and cost many times more.
I feel like the solution is probably more local banana
It’s a tropical fruit. It doesn’t grow well in temperate areas.
Couldn’t we have like greenhouses at some level of scale? Maybe even like, integrate it more easily into normal housing or just larger public spaces? Banana trees get tall, but they don’t get so tall that you couldn’t probably fit them into a lot of places. Beyond that I think maybe the only problem would be, like, humidity, which there’s probably some sort of workaround for, I dunno.
Banana trees take up a lot of space. And heating greenhouses would be very expensive.
I imagine less sweet and with the dry tang of an overly ripe banana. I imagine by the end of consuming some you’re no longer interested in eating this kind of banana again.
They’re more than likely not new, so we can assume there’s some other reason they’re not as good. Taste is the most obvious factor to be the culprit.
“Hua Moa” just sounds right for a banana that size. I can picture the person that named it making those sounds as a reaction to seeing it, and then just going with that as the name.
“Hua moa” is Hawaiian for “chicken egg.”
If that’s true… It’s not a very apt name for it. Unless Hawaii has some mega chickens I don’t know about.
I mean, there certainly are a shit load of chickens around, but that’s a newer development.
Hua can also mean fruit, so it’s possible it means “chicken fruit.” I’m not sure that makes any more sense, though.
Unless they mean it looks like an egg the size of a full-grown chicken.
I’m sure they mean a Moa chicken.
I think the chicken came before new Zealand in this scenario. The Polynesian word for chicken is moa and they had chickens before the maori were hunting the big chickens.
Cab anyone attest to how these things taste? And is it possible to get one outside of Hawaii?
Interesting that the flavor profile says nothing about the flavor, only the texture.
Here’s a video of a family tasting the banana and describing the flavor.
tl;dw: The flavor is similar to Cavendish. One person thought it was sweeter and had “more banana” flavor. One person didn’t feel that was the case. The texture was described as “thick and chewy,” and not as “fluffy” as the Cavendish. Overall they liked it.
Fuckit I now welcome the extinction of the cavemdish banana. Bring on the age of megananas
“of course I don’t miss my ex” she says 😭
A cheater banana is a great banana and its great because its swole because its swooooole
