Is the part of the banana you eat a seed?

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Or is it a legume? Is it just a fruit? What is nanner?

Is a peanut a fruit?

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Banana is a fruit, which is a sugary part of a flower that contains seeds. Commercial bananas are genetic freaks that have the seeds modified to be very small. The little brown spots in the middle of a banana are the seeds, they’re just very wimpy.

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Bananas aren’t real. I don’t know who told you that ridiculous story, but don’t believe them!

:banana: ← You see this? That is lies and nonsense. That is an abomination of nature.

#bananasarefake

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I will say to you what the guy selling beer said to me at a Dead show while dropping liquid into my outstretched hand, Be Kind

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Biologically, all fruits are basically seed pods. A banana is a fruit.

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Coffee beans are actually the pits of a very sweet fruit.

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Birds are also fake. Wake up sheeple!

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The seeds in bananas are the little black things in the middle. They’re much larger in less manipulated strains of bananas; the seeds were shrunken in the strain of bananas most of us pick up from the grocery store.

Here’s what the seeds in wild bananas look like (image stolen from google images).

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If birds and bananas are fake, then are penguins real?

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Yes, but they’re actually secret agents akin to James Bond.

:cookie:

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That explains why they’re always wearing suits.

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They’re actually a type of flightless marsupials.

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Always kinda funny some more…how do I say this in a polite fashion…“eccentric” religious folks claim god exists because a banana is made to be held in our hand.

Completely unaware that those are severely modified bananas in his example.

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Are we talking on or off pizza?

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I moved from the U.S. to the Philippines when I retired. The bananas here are 100% better than the crappy bananas you get in the U.S. They are so so sweet here and really have a stronger banana flavor. And they have about 6 different varieties that you can buy from roadside sellers. They’ve become my favorite fruit!

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They are also made by taking cuttings from existing plants to make new plants.

The banana we eat today is a newer version that was created in the 50s after the previous genetic strain got hit by a fungus that wiped out the entire crop.

Fun fact: When you eat something that is “banana-flavored” it’s actually the flavor of the previous kind of banana. That’s why it doesn’t actually taste like an actual banana.

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This reminds me of that last cluster of stones I passed.

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Second Fun Fact: The same thing has started happening to Cavendish bananas too.

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honestly, bring back the Gros Michel. they taste so much better than the Cavendish banana and if they’re going to be affected by the same fungus, why not?

also, eggplants and peppers are fruits.

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That’s not a fun fact at all!

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