Decadence?

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Originally Posted by bennylaird

Just wanted to brag about my morning treat, I actually got to eat a Banana......

Was only a small increase on the mortgage but worth all the paperwork, might even save up for another one soon.

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Next thing you will be saying that you ate it whilst seated in a high end Merc outside your waterfront mansion.:D

Just don't buy the damn things, spend the $12 on beer or some other fine brew. It's not like if you don't eat bananas you die.

Well it was a hole in the road but to us it was a mansion..................
Worked 25 hours a day and when we came home our Dad would kill us and dance on our graves.....



You try and tell the young people today.....
They just wont believe you.

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Originally Posted by bennylaird

Well it was a hole in the road but to us it was a mansion..................
Worked 25 hours a day and when we came home our Dad would kill us and dance on our graves.....



You try and tell the young people today.....
They just wont believe you.

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Rubbish:) :p

We used to get up half an hour before we went to bed.....
Lick road clean with tounge???.....:eek: :eek: :D :D

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Originally Posted by bennylaird

Just wanted to brag about my morning treat, I actually got to eat a Banana......

Was only a small increase on the mortgage but worth all the paperwork, might even save up for another one soon.

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Im just back from a holiday in New Zealand.....at 99 cents a kilo I was eating bannanas every day. :D

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Originally Posted by journeyman Mick

Stuart,
the reason we don't import bananas from elsewhere is that they can't garuantee them to be free of black cigatoga (sp?) disease, the introduction of which would cost our local industry more than any cyclone. New Zealand has, if anything even stricter quarantine laws than we do, but as they don't have any banana industry there it's not a problem. I doubt very much the government is doing it to protect locasl industry, they stopped doing that some time ago.

Mick

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Mick

What an informed post! Perhaps the elevation at Kuranda clears the mind or does it gve you vertigo or maybe it is just the alcohol?

"Let schoolmasters puzzle ther brains with grammar litterature and learning, good licquor I stoutly maintain gives genius a better discerning."

Regards
Paul

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Originally Posted by Bushmiller

Mick

What an informed post! Perhaps the elevation at Kuranda clears the mind or does it gve you vertigo or maybe it is just the alcohol?...................

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It's just the alcohol: home made banana liqueur!:D

Mick

Are bananas more susceptible to disease, or is there some other reason they don't have similar bans on imports of other fruit and veggies?

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Originally Posted by silentC

Are bananas more susceptible to disease, or is there some other reason they don't have similar bans on imports of other fruit and veggies?

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Only bananas get the dreaded banana lurgy.:D

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Originally Posted by silentC

Are bananas more susceptible to disease, or is there some other reason they don't have similar bans on imports of other fruit and veggies?

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Yeah, the skin peels... :rolleyes:

Ok, for example we import mangoes from India, Mexico and the Philippines. They also carry pests and diseases but are fumigated on arrival. So why is it ok to import them but not bananas? Why are bananas (and banana growers) singled out for special treatment

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Originally Posted by silentC

Why are bananas (and banana growers) singled out for special treatment

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I guess it has nothing to do with the fact that the growers are represented by a certain National Party senator from Queensland? Someone who is prepared to buck the party and government line if necessary?


Peter.

Completely avoiding the politics of this thread....

Saw an amusing sign at a fruit stall at the local markets on the weekend;

"Please Note: Banana's are not kept on these premises overnight"

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I hear B1 and B2 are on stike holding out for equal pay now?

Try this one...... when bananas become cheaper and appear in staff fridges/lunch boxes etc again.

About half an hour before lunch - grab the banana and about half way down the shaft - insert a pin and while staying inside the skin scribe an arc which effectively cuts the banana into 2. Remove the pin and return the banana to the fridge/lunch box etc.

At lunch - watch the fun as the person peels the banana and half falls into their lap - Do it every now and then - promote discussion on the quality of bananas and growers/retailers who sell broken bananas.
Most never figure it out.

:D:):D