Grocery stores always manage to have a table full of bananas just the perfect shade of yellow to attract customers, that will last a couple more days while the family eats them. They are shipped in by the boatload from Central America, so how do they manage this feat? You can get the lowdown from a banana distributor who explains the precisely controlled process that produces the produce we buy. Link -via Jason Kottke
Grocery stores always manage to have a table full of bananas just the perfect shade of yellow to attract customers, that will last a couple more days while the family eats them. They are shipped in by the boatload from Central America, so how do they manage this feat? You can get the lowdown from a banana distributor who explains the precisely controlled process that produces the produce we buy. Link -via Jason Kottke
A really old neighbor of mine who was near the end of his life used to joke that he didn't buy green bananas any more.
Although after the floods & cyclone in North Queensland earlier this year - they've been pretty expensive and rare so I've only just had my first lot for the year.
Hard to understand how do they manage that, being the bananas produced locally.