2008 Woodie Awards
Limited banana bonanza
Jason Crowe
Issue date: 3/24/08 Section: Forum
Someone today told me that the banana won't exist in the next 10 years. At first, I hoped this person had his or her facts wrong or was just trying to pull my leg, but apparently it is prophesized - by some scientists from wherever - that the banana will disappear.
This scares the crap out of me.
Bananas are amazing, they are yellow (not many foods are yellow), taste great and are a great source of potassium. This is a great disappointment to all those banana republics, which are countries that have political instability and have very limited resources. In most cases, there only exists one major export which their economy is based upon, such as cotton, hemp and, most importantly, bananas. What will we tell the generations of the future when they ask what banana bread tastes like? Well, I'll tell them it is absolutely delicious with a wonderfully perfect texture, and it's also very nutritious.
The most disappointing aspect of losing the banana is that there will no longer be banana-fruit smoothies. How sad a day that will be. Fruit smoothies are a great way to relieve stress. If I am having a tough week with school, friends or whatever else, crushing perfectly good fruit into a liquid then tasting the remnants just makes the day better. If society's problems can be solved with such an easy solution as a smoothie, then what will happen when the banana is no more?
What is next? Peanuts, a sadder day that will be, because how are vegetarians going to get their daily recommended amount of protein without peanut butter? There may be other alternatives, but they aren't as great as a jar of peanut butter. We'll just use one resource after another resource, and before you'll know it, we'll just be left eating potatoes. Don't get me wrong, potatoes are great, but imagine what it would be like if AVI Foodsystems Inc. only had potatoes to work with.
We are a society that consumes a resource until it is on the point of extinction. Issues of conservation have been fed to us from every media device that people who love bananas can get their hands on. People don't just consume resources, they consume friends. People will use their friends only for what they have to offer until it isn't there anymore. Then they abandon them in a slurry of confusion. People also consume the work of others until they realize they have no idea what is going on in a class. Another example is when at the end of the year, people will throw away anything they don't have enough of an attachment to. The dumpsters of UT are filled with carpets, chairs and other decent living amenities.
The habitual consumption of any and all resources will leave us without the available resources that we cherish today. People such as myself love bananas and carpets. The practice of exhausting the availability of bananas to extinction can similarly be seen in all other forms of consumption. They are all used up in inappropriate ways that leaves us with nothing more than a memory. (Tastes are hard to remember.) Anyways, next time you eat a banana, remember that it might just be the last one you will have before it will disappear into the annals of history. Poor bananas.
This scares the crap out of me.
Bananas are amazing, they are yellow (not many foods are yellow), taste great and are a great source of potassium. This is a great disappointment to all those banana republics, which are countries that have political instability and have very limited resources. In most cases, there only exists one major export which their economy is based upon, such as cotton, hemp and, most importantly, bananas. What will we tell the generations of the future when they ask what banana bread tastes like? Well, I'll tell them it is absolutely delicious with a wonderfully perfect texture, and it's also very nutritious.
The most disappointing aspect of losing the banana is that there will no longer be banana-fruit smoothies. How sad a day that will be. Fruit smoothies are a great way to relieve stress. If I am having a tough week with school, friends or whatever else, crushing perfectly good fruit into a liquid then tasting the remnants just makes the day better. If society's problems can be solved with such an easy solution as a smoothie, then what will happen when the banana is no more?
What is next? Peanuts, a sadder day that will be, because how are vegetarians going to get their daily recommended amount of protein without peanut butter? There may be other alternatives, but they aren't as great as a jar of peanut butter. We'll just use one resource after another resource, and before you'll know it, we'll just be left eating potatoes. Don't get me wrong, potatoes are great, but imagine what it would be like if AVI Foodsystems Inc. only had potatoes to work with.
We are a society that consumes a resource until it is on the point of extinction. Issues of conservation have been fed to us from every media device that people who love bananas can get their hands on. People don't just consume resources, they consume friends. People will use their friends only for what they have to offer until it isn't there anymore. Then they abandon them in a slurry of confusion. People also consume the work of others until they realize they have no idea what is going on in a class. Another example is when at the end of the year, people will throw away anything they don't have enough of an attachment to. The dumpsters of UT are filled with carpets, chairs and other decent living amenities.
The habitual consumption of any and all resources will leave us without the available resources that we cherish today. People such as myself love bananas and carpets. The practice of exhausting the availability of bananas to extinction can similarly be seen in all other forms of consumption. They are all used up in inappropriate ways that leaves us with nothing more than a memory. (Tastes are hard to remember.) Anyways, next time you eat a banana, remember that it might just be the last one you will have before it will disappear into the annals of history. Poor bananas.
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