/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14369992
Commercial bananas are farmed on such an obscene commercial scale that the only way to keep them so cheap is to grow them almost completely uniform and automate as much as possible.
Panama Disease ripped through the old Gros Michel monocrops like a wildfire so growers had to completely retool their production lines to accommodate Chiquita on the same scale.

The real solution would be to diversify crops and grow as many different banana strains as possible but educating the end consumer to recognize anything other than perfect unblemished yellow Chiquitas as bananas is considered too much hassle to be worth it.