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One big problem we have is that we have been conditioned to only accept certain quality bananas, and by that I mean bananas that look like bananas.
I remember after the last cyclone (Larry) went through we had the same issue, banana prices went through the roof.
Yet, i remember making the best banana cakes then. We had bananas and couldnt eat enough of them. But, our bananas didnt look like bananas, we had all the rejects, the doubles, the triples, the quintuplets, septuplets. The ones that didnt usually make it to the shop because they didnt look like normal bananas. They tasted great, just like a banana should.
My father-in-law made a packet selling the 2nds, because no one want to buy them at the markets because they didnt look right, he was buying the rejects at $0.50 a kilo and selling them for $2/kg, cheap, when people were paying $6-10/kg for correctly shaped bananas.
Go and ask you local grocer if he can get the banana 2nds from the markets, you cant ask Woolies or Coles to do that. I know they are there, we are eating them now.
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