While the tomato enthusiasts have kept heirloom tomatoes alive and a diversity in seed stores, it's the grocery produce section that bananas reside and grocery managers that tend to stick with what they're comfortable with and used to, as well as with what has a regular supply of. There are a few pro-active grocers out there that actually do carry a small diversity of nanners from what I've read, but the overwhelming majority are only interested in boxes and boxes of the traditional yeller nanners - change is risky for them and money lost while waiting for it to catch on, taste-offs or no. Also, the tropical farmer is the one who provides the nanners and precious few of them are interested in growing a large diversity of nanners with no guarantee of sales - only breeders maintain a diversity. They focus on what makes money and that's the boring grocery-store nanner. So, even if we did do taste-offs, I doubt many of us would make any difference when our grocery nanners come from another part of the world that most of us have little contact with.
Be well,
Mike
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Originally Posted by monkeypickle
So glad to hear that bt corn is not killing Monarch butterflies, but,er...where ARE all the butterflies? hmmmm
you know what? why don't some of you who have a large number of unusual varieties of edible bananas get yourselves together and have a 'banana taste-off' or something to let people know what thry are missing out on?There are probably a lot of people out there who would like some of the 'new' varieties to start asking for them? what do you all think. The tomato people are doing that and the result is that seeds of antique [but wonderfull] varieties are again being carried in seed stores.
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