On Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 10:02:24 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> On 22/1/2016 02:57 Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 06:05:18 -0800 (PST), Helpful person
> > > wrote:
> >
> >>On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 4:12:01 PM UTC-5, Travis McGee wrote:
> >>> http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydis...119-story.html
> >>>
> >>> Thirty minutes into the market last Wednesday, customers had plundered
> >>> Sheaffer's supply of tree-ripened, canary yellow bananas, leaving behind
> >>> boxes of unripe green clusters, called hands, for latecomers.
> >>>
> >>Bananas seem to fair very well being picked green. I've never had a tree ripened one. Is there a big difference?
> >
> > Bananas are never harvested ripe because the stalk ripens
> > progressively, and ripe bananas are too delicate to transport, plus
> > when left to plantation ripen the tropics critters will eat them all,
> > it's also very dangerous to harvest ripened bananas, the stalks and
> > leaves hide poisonous snakes waiting to sieze banana loving
> > critters... bananas don't grow on trees, they grow on the world's
> > largest herbaceous plants.
>
> And then there's the banana spider:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ5lgCKt5YQ
>
> --
> Bruce

Not to worry - that's some super fake video.