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Several years ago, I spotted a bunch of small red bananas at the supermarket near my temp job. I bought them because I'd never seen them before. They were tasty, with a more intense flavor than the more usual yellow Cavendish*, but something of a nuisance to eat, because they had a sort of thick, floppy row of seeds down the middle, which I had to eat around. (I'm sure the seeds were harmless, they just didn't taste good.)
The local Safeway currently has bunches of small red bananas; they're more expensive than the large yellow bananas at the same store, even the organic ones (there's about a 20 cent/pound premium for organic; I buy either conventional or organic based on which is closer to my desired ripeness), but not outlandishly so, so I bought a small bunch.
I just ate one. It's tasty, but a lot closer in taste and texture to a yellow Cavendish than to the last small red bananas I had. No noticeable seeds. Quite good, but very much the same kind of thing. Unfortunately, these are just labeled "Reds," list the country of origin as "Ecuador," and have a code number [4236] that I'm going to put here on the theory that it might be useful for something, although I doubt it will help me identify the variety. These are a sort of dull reddish brown, at least by fluorescent light, and about 6 inches (15 cm) long.
* This is the default U.S. banana, the thing that most people I know think of when they think "banana."
The local Safeway currently has bunches of small red bananas; they're more expensive than the large yellow bananas at the same store, even the organic ones (there's about a 20 cent/pound premium for organic; I buy either conventional or organic based on which is closer to my desired ripeness), but not outlandishly so, so I bought a small bunch.
I just ate one. It's tasty, but a lot closer in taste and texture to a yellow Cavendish than to the last small red bananas I had. No noticeable seeds. Quite good, but very much the same kind of thing. Unfortunately, these are just labeled "Reds," list the country of origin as "Ecuador," and have a code number [4236] that I'm going to put here on the theory that it might be useful for something, although I doubt it will help me identify the variety. These are a sort of dull reddish brown, at least by fluorescent light, and about 6 inches (15 cm) long.
* This is the default U.S. banana, the thing that most people I know think of when they think "banana."