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[–] hark 92 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is like comparing apples and oranges.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, it's comparing apples and bananas.

[–] ByteJunk 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] theangryseal 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ur the fruit salad! And ur mom…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Smoogs 34 points 2 weeks 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

[–] kautau 51 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] kautau 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

wait till you hear about bananas and tomatoes!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

brown bananas > yellow bananas

fite me

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

I like them still greenish.

We're on the other ends.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks 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

[–] Landless2029 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] lath 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Tastes like how cut grass smells. BLEH

[–] Wizard_Pope 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] angrystego 4 points 2 weeks ago

Let's go outside.

[–] whotookkarl 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] affiliate 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i can also halt aging in apples by eating them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

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

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

[–] whotookkarl 2 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] DarkCloud 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.