Oh dear oh dear oh dear - UK banana prices may soar ...
May 21st 2006, 9:57 pm
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Re: Oh dear oh dear oh dear - UK banana prices may soar ...
Originally Posted by carolinegorka
you never see dead or baby pigeons.
or unicorns
or unicorns
What is IN your inhaler, Caroline??
May 21st 2006, 9:59 pm
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Re: Oh dear oh dear oh dear - UK banana prices may soar ...
Originally Posted by Toppa
Maybe because there's never been a need for them. Also they probably would turn brown and become unappealing.
May 21st 2006, 10:00 pm
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Re: Oh dear oh dear oh dear - UK banana prices may soar ...
Originally Posted by carolinegorka
you never see dead or baby pigeons.
or unicorns
or unicorns
BUT....why don't we see dead birds all over? There must be millions.Where is the bird graveyard
OK.....agree we don't see unicorns, or pixies...or leprechauns....don't see them either
May 21st 2006, 10:01 pm
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Re: Oh dear oh dear oh dear - UK banana prices may soar ...
Originally Posted by tiredwithtwins
nana's are really cheap at the moment too.......i got a huge bunch for a couple of quid the other day (they were 50p a kilo or something)
May 21st 2006, 10:02 pm
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Re: Oh dear oh dear oh dear - UK banana prices may soar ...
Originally Posted by Pollyana
What is IN your inhaler, Caroline??
.....you need your witts about you cos you're working I'll have a whiff though Caz
May 21st 2006, 10:03 pm
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Re: Oh dear oh dear oh dear - UK banana prices may soar ...
Originally Posted by Hutch
Some snippets from this article in The Guardian.
According to reports by biologists, the banana could be heading down the road to extinction. Or, to be more precise, the Cavendish - the variety sold in shops throughout Britain - may be en route to oblivion. Biologists have discovered that several deadly predators -such as the black Sigatoka fungus - are now stalking the Cavendish...
The result could be widespread devastation in the world's main plantations of Latin America and Asia, and a corresponding massive rise in the price of the banana...
'At the moment, we have to expend a great deal of effort to fight black Sigatoka, which attacks the banana plant's leaves,' added Vezina. 'Plantations are sprayed intensively with pesticides to keep the disease at bay. More than a third of the price of a banana goes to pay for these pesticides.' Only unsustainable volumes of chemicals are currently keeping black Sigatoka at bay, experts point out.
We may not be able to go bananas for much longer.If I hadn't read this in the light of certain recent postings from certain forum members regarding the price of certain kinds of fruit in the UK, I probably wouldn't have pissed myself laughing.
According to reports by biologists, the banana could be heading down the road to extinction. Or, to be more precise, the Cavendish - the variety sold in shops throughout Britain - may be en route to oblivion. Biologists have discovered that several deadly predators -such as the black Sigatoka fungus - are now stalking the Cavendish...
The result could be widespread devastation in the world's main plantations of Latin America and Asia, and a corresponding massive rise in the price of the banana...
'At the moment, we have to expend a great deal of effort to fight black Sigatoka, which attacks the banana plant's leaves,' added Vezina. 'Plantations are sprayed intensively with pesticides to keep the disease at bay. More than a third of the price of a banana goes to pay for these pesticides.' Only unsustainable volumes of chemicals are currently keeping black Sigatoka at bay, experts point out.
We may not be able to go bananas for much longer.
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May 21st 2006, 10:03 pm
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Re: Oh dear oh dear oh dear - UK banana prices may soar ...
Originally Posted by Pollyana
Think it was a pigeon that we hit....certainly wasn't a unicorn!
What is IN your inhaler, Caroline??
What is IN your inhaler, Caroline??
May 21st 2006, 10:10 pm
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Re: Oh dear oh dear oh dear - UK banana prices may soar ...
Originally Posted by Sorchar
wonder why you never get tinned bananas
May 21st 2006, 10:12 pm
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Re: Oh dear oh dear oh dear - UK banana prices may soar ...
Originally Posted by phoenixinoz
You hit one bird Polly....one ikkle bird. You need to learn to fly that broom
YUK....ewe....to the jiffy bags with dead birds. Fancy that as a job eh
What about the millions that must die each year? Where do they go
There wouldn't be enough jiffys for em all
YUK....ewe....to the jiffy bags with dead birds. Fancy that as a job eh
What about the millions that must die each year? Where do they go
There wouldn't be enough jiffys for em all
May 21st 2006, 10:13 pm
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Re: Oh dear oh dear oh dear - UK banana prices may soar ...
Originally Posted by arkon
Don't they all get baked into pies? Thats what I was told when I was a nipper.
Where are the other few million
May 21st 2006, 10:15 pm
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Re: Oh dear oh dear oh dear - UK banana prices may soar ...
Originally Posted by phoenixinoz
But that's only four and twenty
Where are the other few million
Where are the other few million
May 21st 2006, 10:16 pm
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Re: Oh dear oh dear oh dear - UK banana prices may soar ...
Originally Posted by arkon
Don't they all get baked into pies? Thats what I was told when I was a nipper.
May 21st 2006, 10:18 pm
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Re: Oh dear oh dear oh dear - UK banana prices may soar ...
Originally Posted by Pollyana
Thats just blackbirds
May 21st 2006, 10:28 pm
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Re: Oh dear oh dear oh dear - UK banana prices may soar ...
Originally Posted by phoenixinoz
Yep...wot she said
Erm, no idea where they go
May 21st 2006, 10:29 pm
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Re: Oh dear oh dear oh dear - UK banana prices may soar ...
Originally Posted by Bix
Buuuuuuurp.
Erm, no idea where they go
Erm, no idea where they go
