Are Bananas Going Extinct?

There’s a whole bunch to be worried about.

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Dan Koeppel

Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World

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[Forgan_Mreeman]

i'm watching a guy passionately talk about bananas. I think its time i go to sleep.

[jessicagane]

If you listen carefully, you can hear freelee sobbing in the distance

[thesheepthatwentmooo]

MILLION DOLLAR IDEA: Banana zoo, for future kids to see bananas. 

But seriously, "and everyone's bowl of cornflakes...."

Is it? Bananas do not frequent my bowl of cornflakes. Ever.

[Lunarmallow]

wow, how are the minions going to react to this...

[ButterHaus]

I would rather have an United Fruit instead of United Nations.

[jennynguyen]

NEW GAME-
Drink everytime banana is said

[theratcancook]

Fun fact: The reason banana candies taste nothing really like the current bananas is because the flavor was taken from the Gros Michel banana, which tastes very different.

[breezie]

If I hear 'banana' one more time I will flip

[stefneylucas]

Now I want a banana.
yeah no keep those jokes to yourself

[JimmyG]

Plz make Justin Bieber or Iggy Azalea extinct rather than Bananas

[toedplays]

A person at my school heard that potassium, and therefore bananas are radioactive, and asked me: "So.... can we like... power reactors with bananas?"

[myelectricdrug]

I'm surprised why there's only one popular banana breed in some countries. Here in the Philippines, we have plenty. So far in my 23 years of existence, I've eaten 5 breeds of bananas and I bet there's more that I haven't tried yet.

[isabelle]

I wonder what went through that man's head when he woke up one morning and said, "I think I want to devote my life to studying bananas."

[fourish]

I want to eat the first type of bananas

[miamari]

This guy was the kid in high school who everyone thought was trying to be funny about banana facts but was actually being serious..

[IAmAsiaLove]

And to think my brother just wasted half a banana. That ungrateful fiend!

[johnnybaillie]

"So, what do you do for a living?"
"I'm Dan Koeppel and I'm a banana scientist"
"I'm Dan Koeppel and I work for bananas"
"I'm Dan Koeppel and I write books about bananas"
"I'm Dan Koeppel and I'm bananas"

[Elyika]

wait i never ate the original banana? D': my life is incomplete wheres my time machine

[evanvoss]

"If bananas get sick, people die."

What a great way to put it

[bj]

The fuck's with all this talk of extinction? It's just depressing.