# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 4) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 22, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678 "2025-02-22T21:08:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 53
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1041 "2025-06-06T21:21:26Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > An Afghanistan banana stand, maybe. Another Donald E. Westlake fan, I see. ---
**Author:** ![Frilly\_Heck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/90ced4/32.png) [@Frilly\_Heck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frilly_Heck)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1042 "2025-06-06T21:30:33Z")
Someone oughta hit you in the face with a pie for that joke. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1043 "2025-06-06T21:36:20Z")
Banana cream, I assume? ---
**Author:** ![Frilly\_Heck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/90ced4/32.png) [@Frilly\_Heck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frilly_Heck)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1044 "2025-06-06T21:41:20Z")
In THIS economy? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1045 "2025-06-06T21:53:02Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Banana cream, I assume? > **[Airplane - That's just what They'll be expecting Us to do](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0X0ZYbnHxA%2F)** ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1046 "2025-06-06T22:38:51Z")
Bad Banana [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8TadokJWVAg/hqdefault.jpg "Bad Banana 55 Chevy at Beaver Springs Gasser Reunion June 2011") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TadokJWVAg&t=70) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1047 "2025-06-06T22:40:30Z")
They really peeled out! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1048 "2025-06-06T22:57:55Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > They really peeled out! - And then they split! ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1049 "2025-06-07T01:26:48Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > > > Big Banana to develop areas of the USA for optimal conditions for growing American Bananas > > I’m going to genetically engineer, patent, and trademark the BananUS™, a banana variant for growing in the Continental United States. Iowa will be covered in BananUS™ plants! I recommend using bananana just to screw with spell checkers and AI. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1050 "2025-06-07T01:51:14Z")
If, yes, we have no banana then bananaNA ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1051 "2025-06-07T02:02:37Z")
I think Banana Ramen would be a good noodle shop name. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1052 "2025-06-07T02:50:09Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > I recommend using bananana You people. At this point, I’m going to engineer them to grow above the Arctic Circle. They’ll be called Cananas™, and I’m going to sell them at a loss to destroy the robust US banana industry. Don’t say you don’t deserve it! ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1053 "2025-06-07T03:45:13Z")
I recently saw a short documentary on someone who has banana plants in her yard somewhere in Montreal. I’m not sure of the yield she gets, though they do give fruit apparently. The yearly supply might last a few weeks for a family of 4… ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1054 "2025-06-07T10:25:19Z")
We did build a banana baseball team in Savannah. > **[The Savannah Bananas | We Make Baseball Fun!](https://thesavannahbananas.com/)** ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1055 "2025-06-07T13:32:13Z")
A small fraction of world production is Cavendish, the sweet bananas we use to make banana splits, _et al_. Most bananas are what we would call plantains, which are just like bananas but without the sweetness. They are a staple food in some countries, but not very appealing to most Americans (unless properly cooked). And, of course, sweet Cavendish bananas are in ecological peril, likely to go into deep decline like their Gros Michael predecessor breed. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1056 "2025-06-07T15:44:11Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Most bananas are what we would call plantains, which are just like bananas but without the sweetness. They are a staple food in some countries, but not very appealing to most Americans (unless properly cooked). Generally what differentiates a plantain from a banana is that plantains are usually cooked before eating. It’s a culinary difference. They’re all from the Musa genus. In fact, the term “cooking banana” is interchangeable with plantain. It’s not “Amerucans” that dislike them raw, it’s people in general. Cooking bananas are treated more like potatoes because of their starchiness and lack of sweetness. (That’s why plantain chips resemble potato chips.) ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1057 "2025-06-07T15:55:48Z")
Now I’m craving fried Plantains with a little powdered sugar on top. I miss Harry. He had so much more to give, I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1058 "2025-06-07T17:17:58Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > “Amerucans” Sometimes trying to post to Discourse on a phone really sucks. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1059 "2025-06-08T00:38:38Z")
A quick roundup on the state of the banana future, with images of possible candidates to replace the Cavendish: [The Future of the Banana — The Future Market](https://thefuturemarket.com/biodiversity-banana) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1060 "2025-06-08T06:19:39Z")
But we still cannot build those bananas in the US. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=52) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=54)