107 This Fruit is Bananas! | Dan Koeppel

Curiosityness

Travis DeRose

History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

Have you ever wondered why there's only one variety of banana but a dozen or more varieties of apples at your grocery store?

How about why bananas, grown across oceans, are half the price of locally grown apples?

To get these answers, and to learn more about the most fascinating fruit in the supermarket, I'm joined by Dan Koeppel in this episode. Dan is the author of the book, Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World.

Tune in to learn…

-How a seedless fruit continues to reproduce,

-Why your grandpa's banana was different than your banana,

-How & where you can try different varieties of bananas,

-If the apple consumed by Eve in the Garden of Eden was actually a banana,

-If bananas will still exist as we know them in the future,

-& so much more!

Grab a copy of Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World...

On Indiebound at https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780452290082

On Amazon at https://amzn.to/32kidPx (affiliate link)

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0:00.0	A spontaneous and unrehearsed interview.
0:07.7	Hello, and welcome to the 107th episode of Curiosityness.
0:14.0	I am Travis DeRose, the host of the show.
0:17.3	And this episode is a fun one because we're talking about bananas.
0:22.7	That's right.
0:23.6	Just bananas, the fruit, but it's not just bananas.
0:26.7	There's more to it.
0:28.0	It's more than just your normal fruit.
0:30.2	This isn't apples or grapes, people.
0:32.7	It's a crazy story here.
0:34.2	It's really fun.
0:34.8	I had heard a bit about the banana situation, but had no idea.
0:39.2	So, okay, I had on Dan Coppell. That's who you're about to listen to. He is the author of a book
0:45.0	called Banana, The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, and that subtitle is correct.
0:50.7	It did change the world, and is changing the world. There's just so much to the story. It's crazy, world and is changing the world.
0:58.4	There's just so much to the story. It's crazy. So many fun little banana facts.
1:05.3	There's a bunch of corporate greed and, you know, kind of dummies doing stuff that they shouldn't be doing.
1:09.6	That's messing up a bunch of the other people. You know, that, the typical story.
1:16.8	Bananas are seedless and sexless, so how the hell do we have bananas that keep growing?
1:18.2	Well, you're going to find out.
1:24.8	The banana that you ate or that you grew up on is probably not the same banana that your grandparents or your great-grandparents grew up on.
1:28.5	That's true.
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