These bananas at the grocery store are sold on the stalk they grew onSubmitted by co1063 t3_122b7aq in mildlyinteresting
KnudsonRegime t1_jdriiz6 wrote
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The only reason it’s not is logistics. Bananas are notoriously quick to spoil in transit and fast transit is expensive. The banana trains in the US are still the fastest long haul freight method and they have priority over any other train on the tracks.
Since you can fit more bananas without their stalks it’s vastly more economical than wasting a bunch of space with non-edible material.
What nobody talks about is how stalked bananas are shipped LTL (less than truck load) and their carbon footprint is 20x+ that of bulk bunches.
sashinexists t1_jdrjw9h wrote
Yeah, that's less cool
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