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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is like comparing apples and oranges.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, it's comparing apples and bananas.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You must be several fruits short of a salad, it's clearly it's comparing bananas and apples.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ur the fruit salad! And ur mom…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Your mom is so sweet, you can compare her to a fruit salad.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In my experience that banana is what ripens all other fruit that is remotely near it. That apple hasn’t got much time left before it suddenly is rotten

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Which is funny because apples produce more ethylene gas, but they don’t react as intensely as bananas, which just rapidly decay

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Ethylene-Production-Rates-Sensitivity-Levels-and-Principal-Effects-for-Some-Fresh_tbl1_236204770

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Potatos are terrifying. Now I don't feel bad about eating so many fries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Hmm. I've always thought that bananas released the most ethylene; and that they can be used to ripen other fruit (or ripen themselves faster if you put them in a bag or something). ... But this seems to suggest it is apples that should be used for that - unless there's a significant difference between 'produced' and 'released'.

In any case, I guess it's something I might revisit and reassess.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

wait till you hear about bananas and tomatoes!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

brown bananas > yellow bananas

fite me

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Just starting to brown / sparse brown specks is absolutely perfect. Not too soft that they become slimy, but peak sweetness

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I like them when there's only a little yellow left. Not totally brown, but the last panel is peak imo

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like them still greenish.

We're on the other ends.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

When I was young, I preferred them brown (I’d give them a few squeezes to help them along the way). Now I prefer them greenish, not waxy but just after that point

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Cheetah spotted bananas. Perfect. Eat them or slice/freeze them for smoothies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tastes like how cut grass smells. BLEH

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

You asked him to fight you. I also agree bananas that are still slightly green are the best. Love my banans firm.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Let's go outside.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We can pretty much halt aging in apples using a gas made of this stuff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCL2

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i can also halt aging in apples by eating them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

As an added benefit, it reportedly has anti-doctor properties.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that supposed to be the cytokine, or the gas dichlorocarbene?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Whoops, should have been https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Methylcyclopropene it blocks ethylene receptors that a bunch of plants use for regulating ripening and responding to stress conditions like drought, flooding, high salt, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That apple is black and dusty inside by now. Next stage, slow shrivelling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Limited to the (dry, floury) breeds for juice in my experience. And that one that looks like an apple made for eating but acts like the floury sort.