Are bananas too long?

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It's not about length, it's about girth.

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What is the evolutionary explanation for the shape of a banana anyways?

Honest question.
Banana plants grow tall and upright. Bananas grow in bunches from the plant. The bunches are called "hands."

There's also this phenomenon called "negative geotropism." In response to gravity, the bananas curve in the bunches back toward the sky. This helps prevent them from getting too long and unwieldy.
 
Banana plants grow tall and upright. Bananas grow in bunches from the plant. The bunches are called "hands."

There's also this phenomenon called "negative geotropism." In response to gravity, the bananas curve in the bunches back toward the sky. This helps prevent them from getting too long and unwieldy.

Squalor
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(Today, 09:58 PM)
 
You know, the other day I was on my last bite of my banana and it actually did seem like too much. I need to start buying shorter bananas.
 
I've got good news for you OP. The cavendish banana isn't the only kind of banana out there.

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Also, no. Their length and girth are just right. *eyebrow waggle*

I've just seen, and eaten, red bananas for the first time this year, here in Puerto Rico. I just got some on Wednesday from a friend of my partner and made a smoothie with them.
 
See that's the damn thing!! I eat it one bite at a time. By the end I am literally sick and tired of it but there is just like a bite or two left and feel like I have to finish it.

What ripeness are you eating your bananas at? If they're not spotting yet, they're not going to be sweet; they'll be starchy and not very good. Wait 'til they ripen well before eating. That's the same for most fruit, really.
 
what? bananas are great.
just 2 days ago i shoved 6 bananas in 3 hours down my throat.
;) no but seriously, i ate 6 bananas in one sitting, followed by 500 grams of strawberryjohgurt. in my defense, i was high as a kite.
 
Gros Michel's (Big Mikes) are a bit thinner than Cavendish bananas (standard bananas nowadays), and used to be the most common banana in the US until a disease wiped out most of the species in the 1950's. You were just born in the wrong time period OP.
 
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