need banana advice!, page-5

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    roaminoz

    I normally do likewise, some ripe and some unripe, so that they're not all ready in one hit, especially when the weather is a bit on the warm side (because they tend to ripen very quickly).

    The strange thing about the bananas I posted is that the damn things just aren't ripening. Normal bananas one buys can be all green, you place them in a bowl at room temperature and they ripen yellow and evenly within a few days maximum, usually within 3 days. I think these have been affected by some gas storage method. I may be wrong!

    mike, I agree, it's to do with how green they are picked for transport. Normally a store crop has different stages of ripeness fruit. This shop's cache was all green as green can be.

    Yes, watermelon is nice and cheap, and good quality right now.

    I've gone off bananas and prefer to stick to apples and grapes as the staples, they keep well and taste good. Kiwi fruit is good. Plums are good. The stone fruits like apricots and peaches have absolutely no flavour these days.

    I shouldn't complain as we have a good variety of seasonal fruit to choose from.
 
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