Yes, We Will Have No Bananas »
Posted By engineer 6 months, 3 weeks ago in StyleBrace yourself for the next shocking retail threshold: bananas reaching $1 a pound. At that price, Americans may stop thinking of bananas as a cheap staple
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engineer6 months, 3 weeks ago
The immediate reasons for the price increase are the rising cost of oil and reduced supply caused by floods in Ecuador, the world's biggest banana exporter. But something larger is going on that will affect prices for years to come.
That bananas have long been the cheapest fruit at the grocery store is astonishing. They're grown thousands of miles away, they must be transported in cooled containers and even then they survive no more than two weeks after they're cut off the tree. Apples, in contrast, are typically grown within a few hundred miles of the store and keep for months in a basket out in the garage. Yet apples traditionally have cost at least twice as much per pound as bananas.
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neohk6 months, 3 weeks ago
This news reminds me of canes. We should really stop using food as a raw material to produce fuels. We might survive high oil price but no one can ever make it without food.
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