Prices will skyrocket soon. Yesterday cyclone Larry destroyed about 90% of the Australian banana crop.
I hope that all of those farmers had crop insurance.
So fruit does fly… like a banana. 90% eh? Wow, that’s pretty grim.
Supply and Demand.
Don’t worry, I’m sure the slack will be taken up by banana smugglers.
I wonder if this will affect bananas in the U.S.? I was under the impression we got ours primarily from Latin America, so probably not a big deal.
I’ve heard that 90% to 95% of bananas in the US come from Equador.
Yeah well bananas everywhere may soon be a thing of the past.
That shit is bananas.
B-A-N-A-N-A-S.
I heard on the news over here that the sugar cane and banana growers weren’t insured. 
Apparently (side topic) the sugar growers had been waiting for a good year to sell their crop at a good price. This year was shaping up to be just that – until the cyclone.
So that *was * a banana in your pants
I don’t know, I thought the articles were saying essentially the same thing, that one strain of bananas has a very real chance of becoming extinct. Snopes says this as well as the BBC article. The only thing that Snopes does differently is to emphasize the existince of other types of bananas that could take the place of the current popular strain, such as what happened in the 1950’s or 60’s (the articles differ on when it happened) with another then-popular strain.
Not everything is different, but I do think that makes a big difference. The lede in the BBC story is “Edible bananas may disappear within a decade if urgent action is not taken to develop new varieties resistant to blight,” and sure enough, Amp says bananas everywhere may soon be gone. The fact that this has happened before is significant because it puts the potential disaster in perspective.
I’m intrigued by the failed banana that tastes like an apple, myself.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an Austrailian banana. Don’t they curl the other way?
Only if you try to flush them down the toilet.
E.
News reports have estimated that the prices of bananas by the kilo is set to double - so that look like they’ll now be about $A7-8 kilo.
They’re a convenient shape, anyway.