The bananas in your supermarket and that you eat for breakfast are facing functional extinction due to the disease Fusarium wilt of banana (FWB), caused by a fungal pathogen called Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense (Foc) tropical race 4 (TR4).
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.
Label it new, special, and exotic, and people will buy it. Marketing is a hell of a drug.
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.