Banana Bred

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

Pop, Society & Culture, Culture, Games, Gadgets, News, Internet, Comedy, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Japanese researchers made a botanical announcement on Monday that quickly circled the world. They had developed a banana with an edible peel, allowing Japanese consumers to eat an entire banana—skin and all—the way they would an apple or a peach. So far, the edible-peel banana is little more than designer fruit. Researchers develop the fruit in weekly batches of 10, and sell them at a single market in Okayama for nearly $6 apiece. There's also the question of whether a banana peel is actually worth eating (nutrient verdict: mixed) and whether inedible banana peels had, rather suddenly, become too big of a nuisance for people who slip on them to bear anymore. Jeff and Anthony debate this fruit's appeal.

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0:14.3	slash we have concerns.
0:30.4	Yeah, it's a good event. A squareball.tv y'all watch it. Watch it. This is we have concerns. Hi,
0:37.1	Jack and I. Hi, Anthony Carbony. Hello, concerned citizen. Anthony, do you have a favorite fruit?
0:42.9	Oh, you know, I'm a real big green apple guy. Green apple. Yeah, green apple. I like the
0:50.8	um, I like a little crunch. I like a little sour. I like the green apples. The sour is not really my
0:55.3	jam. I like those those real sweet apples. I can't remember the name of them. The veggies. Yeah,
0:59.8	the gala's are good too. I mean, I like. Listen, listen, life hack. You want to save like five cents
1:06.4	an apple and have an apple that's 99% of a Fuji. Get yourself a gala. Yeah. And they're much
1:12.1	less expensive as you said. Yeah. But if the gala, but if you know, the Fuji's are there,
1:15.5	and they're in season, why would you not get a Fuji? You just, you know, treat yourself.
1:18.9	Fuji's the way to go. But I don't think apple would be my favorite. I really love an orange. I
1:22.8	love a nice, fresh orange. We have an orange tree at my house. But I might go if I had to pick
1:27.6	favorite fruit, I might go banana. Banana is great. Full of thiamine and niacin, self-contained. I like
1:34.3	any fruit that's like protected in its own protective peel or rind. Yeah. And you bring it with you.
1:40.0	It's got its own handle. In fact, I think doesn't the Kirk Cameron say that's a reason that God
1:44.7	has to exist is because the banana is perfectly suited for you to eat it. That comes with its own
1:48.6	packaging and its own handle and everything. It's some sort of bullshit. He's he's he's touting.
1:52.7	Huh. Yeah. Anyway, Kirk Cameron's alive. Yeah. He's like a real born-again Christian evangelical type.
2:03.2	Oh. Yeah. And he says that's irrefutable that there's a God because the banana fits perfectly
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