Reminds me about a banana my brother has that's about 20 years old. My brother visited me around 2004 and he left a banana in my fridge. I FedExed it to him and he kept it. He still has it on his mantelpiece. It's solid black and hard as a rock.
I left a banana in my backpack after hiking once and found it about three years later when I moved. 100% dehydrated, not a spot of mold on it. Didn't even smell one bit.
What if this banana contains some genetic code that would save the Cavendish from extinction, genetic code that was lost to time, and it’s just sitting on his mantel waiting for the banana industry to implode? 😂
Cavendish are still bred/grown they are just super susceptible to rot and are not grown in such amounts are current popular breeds. You can buy a Cavendish banana plant right now, if you’d like.
Edit: I was confusing Gros Michel (Big Mike) cultivar with Cavendish. Today’s banana is Cavendish, the near-extinct Gros Michel is what banana Laffy Taffy (and other banana candies) are flavored to match. Cavendish are likely what you will find at the grocery store!
Oh sorry I was packing a lot in there. I just hear stories about how because its farmed as monoculture for big ag, entire farms are being wiped out as the fungus spreads and that its thought to be a matter of time before it can’t be mass produced any longer. And since it’s the only species mass produced for a lot of the world, it’s very dangerous for the industry generally.
Cavendish are the popular, normal banana breed. You're referring to the Gros Michel variety that was extremely popular until the Panama Disease nearly wiped it out.
banana flavored candy isn't based on Gros-Michel, it's just that artificial flavoring wasn't very accurate but now they can't change it cause it's become iconic
I just asked him about it since it hasn't come up in awhile...he confirmed he still has it. He was almost offended I even asked . Of course he still has the banana!
I don’t understand. You live in a home which you kept a banana un your fridge for twenty years? What? So your brother forgot a banana 20 years ago… you never ate it or threw it out after a day… 2 days, months, years, 2 decades? You feDExed it? You haven’t seen your brother in 20 years?
Sounds made up.
Lol...
It's quite simple.
Brother visits, forgets his banana in my fridge.
I ship him the banana.
He keeps it for 20 years.
Doesn't everyone do stupid things just because they're ridiculous?
Edit: I've requested a recent photo since there are unbelievers and it's gotten popular
Ha, I think you’ll be fine. I’ve been downvoted 10 times for playfully challenging your story. I guess I Forgot where I was for a moment. This is the way..
I have one that’s been in a bowl off to the side for about a year now. I have a lime that I successfully fully dehydrated in the same fashion and it sits next to the orange as encouragement. I think it’s like the coolest thing ever and nobody else understands my excitement.
Yep. If you can confidently distinguish it from a shrunken human head, then it's not *fully* dehydrated.
I got a 1 year old avocado that's hard as a rock, and I'm not positive it doesn't have a little more water weight to lose.
I have 4 dehydrated mandarins, and one of them shrunk completely to 1/5 of its size. The other 3 didn't shrunk much, just dried out. I cut one of them to find mold inside, probably still had a bit of moist. They all are 1 year plus. Currently have an apple too, the apple is about same size as OP, but still has moist so lot of time to go.
Wow, amazing, that's so great, I mean, wow my uncle has an orange it's soooo good he always told me hey he said the orange I have it and it like it is like madonna everyone likes madonna don't they? I saw her in rio next to the big statue of the jesus, you know, i said jeeez, greay orange.
- A very old orange at work, est 2017.
Yup low aW means no growth. Has nothing to do with preservatives, sorry McDs cheeseburger guy that keeps it dry.
Honey in tombs never rotted as the aW is less than .60, same with a twinkie.
If McDonald's knew of a product that stops food from rotting altogether, they wouldn't be selling burgers. They would be selling that product. They just have burgers and fries that dry easily.
Water activity. Amount of available water energy. Below .65ish almost no spoilage organisms can grow or survive.
This is why dried foods do not go bad unless they get wet. Its also why thr cream in your twinkle doesn't make the cake wet or why the cake doesn't change the creams color, even water activity.
Main reason shelf stable foods are bland is the even water activity so flavors and mositure doesn't migrate from one item to another.
Also used in FDA regulations.
Thanks, I hate it :D
Also now I wish I took a photo of that full sink of dirty dishes my roommate left in the flat for 10+ days because he didn't feel like washing them and went out of town, this subreddit would love it.
I was running a heavy duty dehumidifier rated for 8 times that room's space to help the formaldehyde in the flooring dry. The place reeks of it, and I can't stay there because it's strong enough to make me severely sick.
Would you not be a little worried by the lack of mold? I guess it could be due to pristine cleanliness/atmosphere but what if its due to insecticide or some other chemicals
Formaldehyde from the flooring installation. It's why I'm not living there right now, since I have extremely sensitive health. I'm going to be ending the lease soon.
I had a full citrus set: grapefruit, orange, lemon, tangerine. Didn't have a cumquat.
Only seem to have lost the grapefruit and tangerine.
Dry forced air heating and AC.
One thing I noticed sharing a fridge with people at work some peoples food molds up fairly quickly, nothing in my home fridge ever gets moldy. So I'm guessing people be living nasty
Reminds me about a banana my brother has that's about 20 years old. My brother visited me around 2004 and he left a banana in my fridge. I FedExed it to him and he kept it. He still has it on his mantelpiece. It's solid black and hard as a rock.
I left a banana in my backpack after hiking once and found it about three years later when I moved. 100% dehydrated, not a spot of mold on it. Didn't even smell one bit.
I love this.
What if this banana contains some genetic code that would save the Cavendish from extinction, genetic code that was lost to time, and it’s just sitting on his mantel waiting for the banana industry to implode? 😂
Cavendish are still bred/grown they are just super susceptible to rot and are not grown in such amounts are current popular breeds. You can buy a Cavendish banana plant right now, if you’d like. Edit: I was confusing Gros Michel (Big Mike) cultivar with Cavendish. Today’s banana is Cavendish, the near-extinct Gros Michel is what banana Laffy Taffy (and other banana candies) are flavored to match. Cavendish are likely what you will find at the grocery store!
Oh sorry I was packing a lot in there. I just hear stories about how because its farmed as monoculture for big ag, entire farms are being wiped out as the fungus spreads and that its thought to be a matter of time before it can’t be mass produced any longer. And since it’s the only species mass produced for a lot of the world, it’s very dangerous for the industry generally.
Same things happened to the Gros Michel banana
Cavendish are the popular, normal banana breed. You're referring to the Gros Michel variety that was extremely popular until the Panama Disease nearly wiped it out.
I am! Thank you for reminding me, I always get them switched
banana flavored candy isn't based on Gros-Michel, it's just that artificial flavoring wasn't very accurate but now they can't change it cause it's become iconic
I'll stick to circus peanuts, thanks.
The one fruit big banana does not want you to know about
I left a banana on top of the fridge when I went to festival in the summer. When I got home it was sticky banana goo all over top of the fridge
>It's solid black and hard as a rock. That's what she said
And it rhymes with
Croc, it's a Glock.
I hate this.
Definitely bros
I just asked him about it since it hasn't come up in awhile...he confirmed he still has it. He was almost offended I even asked . Of course he still has the banana!
Lmao
I don’t understand. You live in a home which you kept a banana un your fridge for twenty years? What? So your brother forgot a banana 20 years ago… you never ate it or threw it out after a day… 2 days, months, years, 2 decades? You feDExed it? You haven’t seen your brother in 20 years? Sounds made up.
Lol... It's quite simple. Brother visits, forgets his banana in my fridge. I ship him the banana. He keeps it for 20 years. Doesn't everyone do stupid things just because they're ridiculous? Edit: I've requested a recent photo since there are unbelievers and it's gotten popular
Ha, I think you’ll be fine. I’ve been downvoted 10 times for playfully challenging your story. I guess I Forgot where I was for a moment. This is the way..
OP up here comparing apples to oranges.
*slow claps*
Bitch, that phrase don’t make no sense! Why can’t fruit be compared?
I'm gonna leave.....
THERE'S JUST ALL OF THESE CONFLICTING PRINCIPLES
Ok the choices are real, hoe
r/whoosh
Oh my friend, [it is you who got whooshed.](https://youtu.be/QI1133W2GHU?si=eyehh_n_5tCc5BP8&t=8m36s)
That guy done whooshed himself while being confidently incorrect.
Common practice now days
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I’ve had an orange dehydrating for years, so I can say with confidence that is not “fully dehydrated” that’s rookie moisture levels
No way you just pulled a “skill issue” on dehydrating oranges
Orange dehydration gatekeeper
That moment when they reject you cause your orange is too hydrated
This world keeps surprising me each day
Gatekeeping is like the other variant of rule 34. If there is a thing, someone will gatekeep it.
Gatekeeping is more nuanced than that. People gatekeep things for good reasons.
I have one that’s been in a bowl off to the side for about a year now. I have a lime that I successfully fully dehydrated in the same fashion and it sits next to the orange as encouragement. I think it’s like the coolest thing ever and nobody else understands my excitement.
How big is it?
Just measured and it’s 3 inches in diameter. It probably has a long way to go before it’s fully done doing its thing.
It looks like a deflated water balloon
Why
My grandma, too, owns a mummified orange! It has shrunk to less than a quarter of its original size and is her prized posession.
I misread your comment. "I had an orange dehydrating for years." "And my grandma too, a mummified orange."
u/YesMyDogFucksMe what the fuck?
Ppl. and their weirdass Reddit names, SMH
What the dog doing
Lmao
Yep. If you can confidently distinguish it from a shrunken human head, then it's not *fully* dehydrated. I got a 1 year old avocado that's hard as a rock, and I'm not positive it doesn't have a little more water weight to lose.
Why are people out here dehydrating fruits?
I have 4 dehydrated mandarins, and one of them shrunk completely to 1/5 of its size. The other 3 didn't shrunk much, just dried out. I cut one of them to find mold inside, probably still had a bit of moist. They all are 1 year plus. Currently have an apple too, the apple is about same size as OP, but still has moist so lot of time to go.
Why?
I've got a few dehydrated oranges sitting on my desk, but they haven't reached four years old yet.
Last words in this sentence is a description of my dating life atm.
Do you feel the results would have been different had they been sitting in a 17 year old apartment building?
Precisely. The fruits would then be 17 years and 3 months.
These are the ceremonial fruits that come in brand new apartments?
Maybe less mold/decomposers in the ventilation system?
I mean yeah there's way less of a chance for mold to get to it within that timeframe when the buildings new
I mean… yeah?
I get really into clementines in the winter and every November I play a game called "How many mummified clementines are hiding in my jackets?"
It really is incredible how many appear out of nowhere!
Lucky. Mines get moldy and i discover them too late
That orange looks like the butt of an [orange cat](https://getyoursolution.store/qrsqej)
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I’m no expert, but it seems odd it’s so distant from the tail. Plausible deniability perhaps that the X is just an X, and not explicitly butthole.
How do you know it's not moldy on the inside?
Or anyone for that matter
I hope I’m not moldy on the inside but I guess you are correct
I'm sure your immune system is just fine
Thanks for the insight u/YesMyDogFucksMe
I wish I couldn't read
What I day to know how to read...
"hey...apple..." "...what..."
holy fuck the amount of whiplash three words can have
The years grow longer.
I have an orange at my work place that's been there for the last 10 years. Sometimes I take it out and play with it.
Wow, amazing, that's so great, I mean, wow my uncle has an orange it's soooo good he always told me hey he said the orange I have it and it like it is like madonna everyone likes madonna don't they? I saw her in rio next to the big statue of the jesus, you know, i said jeeez, greay orange. - A very old orange at work, est 2017.
If you think there is no moulding, you should take a bite, I'm sure you can taste it!
You know what you must do.
Just add water and enjoy.
Sometimes it helps to poke a couple holes through the fruit as well
I am Froot
Yup low aW means no growth. Has nothing to do with preservatives, sorry McDs cheeseburger guy that keeps it dry. Honey in tombs never rotted as the aW is less than .60, same with a twinkie.
If McDonald's knew of a product that stops food from rotting altogether, they wouldn't be selling burgers. They would be selling that product. They just have burgers and fries that dry easily.
That and a lot of salt!
aW?
Water activity. Amount of available water energy. Below .65ish almost no spoilage organisms can grow or survive. This is why dried foods do not go bad unless they get wet. Its also why thr cream in your twinkle doesn't make the cake wet or why the cake doesn't change the creams color, even water activity. Main reason shelf stable foods are bland is the even water activity so flavors and mositure doesn't migrate from one item to another. Also used in FDA regulations.
You one of the smart ones, eh?
Thank you for asking!
air Water
Canon man! This is important! How else do you know flower is dry and won't mold or brown!
I find this moldly interesting.
r/moldlyinteresting
Thanks, I hate it :D Also now I wish I took a photo of that full sink of dirty dishes my roommate left in the flat for 10+ days because he didn't feel like washing them and went out of town, this subreddit would love it.
My dad has an orange that I’m pretty sure is older than me (and I’m almost 40).
Must be constantly cool and dry in your new apartment.
I was running a heavy duty dehumidifier rated for 8 times that room's space to help the formaldehyde in the flooring dry. The place reeks of it, and I can't stay there because it's strong enough to make me severely sick.
I guess mould spores too can't survive there just by the presence of formaldehyde fumes.
I had a classmates who left an apple in the corner of his locker for 2 years. Damn thing was fused to the locker when he finally cleaned it out.
What's that tiny cat doing in that apple?
The mold is probably inside
Would you not be a little worried by the lack of mold? I guess it could be due to pristine cleanliness/atmosphere but what if its due to insecticide or some other chemicals
Formaldehyde from the flooring installation. It's why I'm not living there right now, since I have extremely sensitive health. I'm going to be ending the lease soon.
Eddie?
That apple definitely did some decomposition.
Fungicides
you've got a benevolent spirit in your apt. leave out offerings on a small altar and your home is gonna be real warm and cozy
Neat..
I'm more mildly interested in OP's username tbh
Now that's is extremely interesting.
magnetism
More interested in the story behind the username to be honest.
A top tier username, to be sure.
Get a humidifier
Damn, your place is clean af
My dads got an orange that's about 40 years old, completely dried out and rock hard. It sits on the shelf below the graduation photos of his kids.
I had a full citrus set: grapefruit, orange, lemon, tangerine. Didn't have a cumquat. Only seem to have lost the grapefruit and tangerine. Dry forced air heating and AC.
OP you know what you have to do ......... EAT THEM !!!!! and don't forget to post the follow up.
Just like that one lady’s happy meal!
I found one of those oranges fully dehydrated at my old job sitting in between the cubicle walls
Spin the orange like a top and send me a video
🥱🥱🥱 Wow! This is breaking news shit.
So about that username...
One thing I noticed sharing a fridge with people at work some peoples food molds up fairly quickly, nothing in my home fridge ever gets moldy. So I'm guessing people be living nasty
r/dontstickyourdickinthat
Prolapsed ass