Boneless bananas???

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Alex Lago wrote:

Those seeds are called "bones" so all the bananas we buy in supermarkets are by definition "boneless bananas".

Nicole Schnell wrote:



It sounds bizarre...

opolt wrote:

... were bred so you don't hurt yourself, for training purposes only, until you get used to the real thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWCBOsJr-w

You know, wild bananas are wild -- and dangerous :-]

Alex Lago wrote:

There are actually a lot of boneless banana photos available on the Internet because people always find it amusing, the thing is it is actually a correct term.

Bananas exist in many varieties in the wild, though we tend to think of all bananas as yellow and long that is not the case with all wild banana varieties. Wild bananas have seeds in them (they need them to reproduce). The wild bananas that our cultivated bananas came from originally had large seeds inside them, wild varieties still have seeds in them ...but the bananas we see in supermarkets have had these seeds bred out of them, the bananas are now reproduced asexually from offshoots.

Those seeds are called "bones" so all the bananas we buy in supermarkets are by definition "boneless bananas".