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Originally Posted by Valor_X
What's with the Orinoco rant? The super cooking banana part might be a little exaggerated sure but they are delicious when ripe, much better than store bought cavendish. Pretty much the easiest bananas to grow even in poor soil and they're cold hardy. Can't beat that imo
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That is the interesting part how people have different tastes. Personally I think Orinoco, and in particular the dwarf version is a crap banana. Reason is the dwarf can have some serious corking, with tough inedible parts. On top of that, its very mealy. I think the really ripe bananas taste like a sickly artificially sweet banana. The only way to eat is is to cook it green like a potato in my opinion. Even so, it's not that great. At least she could have sent me a Cavendish.
I do think its worth growing for some reasons you mentioned. Its another easy to grow food source so it has value for that reason alone.