Spent an hour+ today researching the properties of wild bananas before humans cultivated them 10,000 years ago for an essay that is distinctly not about bananas. So, the vacation is going well. - ThreadSky

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maggieappleton.com • 53 days ago

Spent an hour+ today researching the properties of wild bananas before humans cultivated them 10,000 years ago for an essay that is distinctly not about bananas.

So, the vacation is going well.

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bryn.codes•53 days ago

omg this suddenly makes me understand the guanabana (soursop) fruit so much more

samgoff.bsky.social•53 days ago

🫶🏼

zachsaucier.com•53 days ago

Do tell what you learned

stephen.news•53 days ago

whoa 😳 I would love to read more about this!

daiyi.co•53 days ago

reminds me of the pre-cultivated watermelon! so pretty

kesselrunner528.bsky.social•53 days ago

This happened to me in the past but I stopped too early and I still got questions. If you managed to know the answers, are the hybrids a natural occurrence then propagated by humans or were they crossed?

tarngerine.bsky.social•53 days ago

forbidden blanana

codinginpublic.dev•53 days ago

this is literally why I'm on bluesky haha; love it!

jackrusher.com•53 days ago

Extremely relatable

maggieappleton.com•52 days ago

We've all ended up in the depths of banana evolution at some point... 🍌

bmann.ca•52 days ago

If you haven’t come across it, I really enjoyed reading Fruit Hunters many years ago, and now I have fruit factoids

https://skylights.my/rel/open-library/OL32765874M

maggieappleton.com•52 days ago

Ooh hadn't heard of this, but love this kind of cross-disciplinary history of foods/objects.

Maybe similar to ones like Salt (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Salt-World-History-Mark-Kurlansky/dp/0142001619) and Sweetness and Power (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sweetness-Power-Place-Modern-History/dp/0140092331/ref=sr_1_1)?

bennyj504.bsky.social•53 days ago

Know the feeling, have embarked on a number of side quests that derailed my main quest 😭

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