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I learned how to make banana moonshine the other day. https://t.co/it8QzRpTmv
Re: banana moonshine. I read that banana tea can help with insomnia. I don't think they meant alcoholic banana tea, but couldn't hurt, right?https://t.co/dpk9QL5OPL
I asked Google for "LD50 Bananas" and this showed up. It doesn't mention bananas at all. I'm confused.https://t.co/DM4BQ7zsWP
"But I'm afraid that his banana addiction is going to infect his family. [...] and if they get infected at such a young age, they'll be just like him, and never stop." 🤣https://t.co/frjFHZh6Fi
So... Uh... Technically too many bananas CAN kill you, if you make banana moonshine it can lead to Hyperkalemia. Ironically this is actually a potassium overdose (but unrelated the bananas) https://t.co/nMh3d1JxLc
I find it fascinating that so many sermons during the early 19th century coincided with the rise of prohibition. "As one bad apple spoils the others, so you must show no quarter to sin or sinners." https://t.co/q1MDMb4H7I
Strangely, another reference I have about apples is also from smithsonian. It talks about how our beloved children's story of Johnny Appleseed's spreading of apple trees is actually because he was sowing sour apples to make booze.https://t.co/43fDLYxTgc
Speaking of narrative violations. I didn't realize until just now that "Apples and Bananas" was perhaps originally done by Sandra Beech? It seems children's songs hit their stride at around the time the FTC restrictions on advertising to children died.https://t.co/hvv6cjkZuz
Of course that was centered around free speech, and the actual concern about advertising to children lost.All of my childhood has been subject to propaganda of brands due to creeping censorship & 'muh free speech' rhetoric. It drowned out nuance.https://t.co/ZzeDjnoQRd
Marketers Ruin Everything."Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement in 2010 requiring the marketers to stop making allegedly false and unproven claims that their vitamins promote healthy brain and eye development in children." https://t.co/WsJSYiXTpq
As much as I dislike the foolishness that happens with FTC, I think they are the only force we have at the moment that stops this bullshit:"You may say the FTC is "Bananas,” but they say that Banana Silk and Bamboo Silk are not silk, bananas or bamboo."https://t.co/nisouStCIf
Personally, I think we should legalize banana consumption. Right now it is impossible to trust your banana dealer to not lace it with apple cider or other harder fruits. The hard-line taken by the FDA against bananas is only serving to further entrench its use as a gateway fruit.
I'm not saying eating bananas isn't dangerous, only the current marketing & regulatory environment makes it difficult to understand how to consume bananas responsibly and safely. I'm concerned big-fruit is lobbying against eating bananas because apples might not be sell as well.
The myth of banana madness."resistant starch isn’t easily digested, it reduces the amount of sugar released into the bloodstream, helping control blood sugar. Research also suggests that resistant starch helps maintain the balance of healthy gut microbes"https://t.co/9UzXPjOugq
If not for sale, I at least think that people who need to eat bananas medicinally should be allowed to grow their own for their own personal use. I haven't made up my mind on recreational banana use, but I don't see the harm.https://t.co/RgbgaW9lBp
I support home grown bananas, because if we allow bananas to be consumed legally, there is a risk that we'll see an increase shipments of fruits across the board. Perishable fruits may increase chance that unrelated drugs might be shipped more frequently: https://t.co/O1Amz38Mkp
Research is being done that suggests bananas have a wide range of uses beyond recreation."Constipation cannot be managed using medication alone. Better short- and long-term outcomes are achieved with lifestyle changes, including a proper diet."https://t.co/EywcP5qthf
There are other practical reasons for ending the Banana Trade. The industry as it exists is full of a lot of human tragedies that could be completely mitigated if we legalized home-grown bananas.https://t.co/ForngyoTUo
There's even some reason to believe that the Banana Trade was responsible for a mass murder - with people being framed as communists in order to take control of massive swaths of plantation land.https://t.co/tzZfjmx8cQ
Despite all of this, Bananas are still regularly consumed by people world wide. There are even tips for growing your own available online if you look. They are just plants like any other.https://t.co/UfE9aewYR8
"And the plantations are not fun places to work, either [...] But many people don’t have options. In regions where banana plantations have such a foothold on the local economy, the only jobs available are at the plantations."https://t.co/2pqoezDtD6
There's a long history of westerners disliking bananas, it's taken a lot of science and r̶e̶v̶e̶r̶s̶e̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶p̶a̶g̶a̶n̶d̶a̶ ̶ public service announcements to be able to undo the myths about bananas making you sick.https://t.co/AdrDB8OAnq
One fascinating fact about bananas, is that unlike those we had in the 1960s, the modern banana has become more potent. It is basically a different breed altogether compared to bananas studied in the 1930s.https://t.co/oZtacVMucB
While I have been harping on the banana conundrum, don't think this problem is limited to illegal fruits. Even the commonly prescribed apple is subject to the same market forces leading to perverse growing conditions and poor adaptations to risk.https://t.co/EVTvSyY2iV
Despite the risks, it seems scientists have even managed to create synthetic banana using bacteria. https://t.co/cwI9gcWWBc
The problem with the synthetic version is that it is indistinguishable from the real stuff, but falls under a completely separate FDA regulation.https://t.co/9nrl1DGghC https://t.co/D3h1CO0qcJ
Ah yes, the United Fruit Company's war on bananas absolutely needs another injection of land. /shttps://t.co/sht8Rb1DXT
This is why we can't trust modern research on bananas.https://t.co/9cdZdL3f9U
Banana strains come in all sorts of odd names.Like Gros Michel, Cavendish, Splits, and even spiked with other drugs."and of course it's not only to the history of candy that this ties to, it's tied to the history of the american soda fountain..."https://t.co/TPhgQ4FGNp
The desire to mass produce such addicting products run deep in our modern industrial world. The human need for bananas, driven by advertising campaigns and industrial mono-crops, means they too will soon be replaced.https://t.co/8ve5og6Emz
"With this new ban in place, all platforms will now have to monitor for illegal fruit consumption, on top of the already intense restrictions given to them by the government." 🍌https://t.co/NiDYmrJuhm
Illegal bananas are a plague on many nations."China had destroyed 35 tons of bananas from the Philippines valued at $33,000 last March, and eventually suspended 27 exporters."https://t.co/9SkrG2ZXtF
That candy shop I posted a couple of tweets ago also deals with other illegal fruit: The Black Currant.https://t.co/mKSxkNEou1
I've always wondered why red currant wine was such a highly sought after product. It turns out it's high price is because it was illegal?! You'd think New York would be against this kind of thing given their war against smoking.https://t.co/yQvddF2clh
Alas, New York is absolutely riddled with the remnants of fruit consumption.https://t.co/kE5MxyOLOv
The banana menace has been a facet of New York for longer than almost everyone alive!https://t.co/MiXMxjPnkO https://t.co/NmabAyx4YI
So much tragedy and strife over a fruit. Bananas are truly a gateway drug.https://t.co/IFsrtpCAh1 https://t.co/PrEpMmrJrl
Bananashttps://t.co/xU474sfks0
I'm going to stop posting in this thread because I've learned some really fucked up things.https://t.co/ntIBACOyhW
"Someone is always watching, so don't forget to smile. :)"https://t.co/4uUAmsHEhJ
Maybe one more.On the folk theories around the Banana Man song:"The banana man is everywhere, trying to grow a monopoly in every industry in the otherwise free market, selling us “freshly taken” bananas."https://t.co/p3A2dHSEZgDo you want a banana?https://t.co/3qO5eb3mtf
Fuck with the tally man, tally man send your thumbs to your next of kin.https://t.co/VXTT95e7pU
Illegal fruits..."Although other researchers have linked the birth of organized crime to different local resource booms, including the rise of sulfur mines, [...] is able to explain some aspects that previous theories were not able to explain,”https://t.co/0kwa8xxm8R
Entire wars fought over poop used to fund illegal fruit growing operations.https://t.co/bUASbbzOXL
Wherever fruit grows, crime follows.https://t.co/a4meRxTjn5
Illegal fruit growing operations.https://t.co/7caGcxl1Xj
Entire cities banning together to fight the illegal fruit menace.https://t.co/WiRDXXJtXP
Bananas are weird.https://t.co/qttkok7WQJ
Corn syrup is just thick fruit juice. Fite mehttps://t.co/puVEZ1ItKw
Illegal fruit rules everything around me.https://t.co/mJ4mVpegvz
"even being reported in mainstream publications like Time and Newsweek. There were reports of banana smoke-ins and of bearded, scruffy hippies lining up at the fruit section of supermarkets and walking away with large bunches of bananas." #fakenewshttps://t.co/Q7MnfwOuPz
"The production quota for high fructose corn syrup is intended to ensure fair agricultural/economic development across all territories in the EU and is not related to the health concerns"https://t.co/1uzzsUV4ST
"suggests there's something additional about high fructose corn syrup that has a strong effect on diabetes."https://t.co/ISj8yEIRPt (study: https://t.co/St6BUlD2h3)
Illegal levels of high fructose corn syrup in all of our food!https://t.co/OboVgPKiUK
Watch out, if you aren't careful you may find your cannabis laced with high concentrations of illegal fruit.https://t.co/hQhoYnRtPi
I recommend satiating your cannabis sweet tooth with honey based products, but even those can be spiked with illegal sweeteners."in-house or private labs to test for honey diluted with inexpensive high fructose corn syrup or 13 other illegal sweeteners"https://t.co/g5ee0vKOf6
Selling illegal corn syrup, pretending to be maple syrup, was even attempted to get put thru congress, but corn cartels seem to have shot it down. https://t.co/AnmL4GPl2w
The sugar brand wars of 2012-2014.First, they try labeling corn syrup as 'sugar'."How did the corn syrup makers fight back? Start a PR campaign with a cute kid and a wholesome dad walking in a cornfield."https://t.co/ryRhbwdbkz
In a follow up, Coca-Cola launches "life" brand soda.https://t.co/Y4N49SvREvand then a year later we see Pepsi follow up with "True" when Coca-Cola's brand starts selling in America.https://t.co/FgeogXEnzHLiterally competing on who can green-washing their brand faster.
Some say the war is still happening today, being proxied thru other beverage manufacture's brands.https://t.co/MZnwRpSUlG
There are a couple of probiotics that can reduce the impact of HFCS, effectively reducing metabolic syndrome in rats. https://t.co/QgElu4DQ3E
But what is a little non-alcoholic-fatty-liver-disease between friends anyway? https://t.co/DaxFftLY7O
And hey, it also reduces cholesterol, funny that.https://t.co/EmUkjFviYmIt's almost like Fructose gets metabolized into fat more easily or something weird like that.https://t.co/BM65G13TdQ
Illegal fruits contributed to my marriage ending. We have to stop this creeping addiction to illegal fruits before they ruin more lives!https://t.co/X4tlhrD9CW
Illegal fruit is a manifestation of capitalism's invisible hand blinding you from how foreign trade creates oppressive banana republics."by a powerful constituency with enormous political clout and unreasonable demands: Us."https://t.co/Ey8rHZNm6o
The NERVE of this guy, growing bananas at 7,200 feet in Colorado!You'd think it'd be illegal to do this kind of thing.https://t.co/dOqo1mhlMZhttps://t.co/cEOcLpPSE3
It's amazing how many food brand are just shiny labels used to push illegal fruit syrups to the population at large.https://t.co/wBVO0Yvet0
Found a book talking about how illegal fruit is in everything.https://t.co/9XywyZQRDB
Vital to realize how fragile economies — built around a monoculture of illegal fruit — are."We need to deploy the rich biodiversity by generating a suite of new [illegal fruit] varieties, not just one [...] Monoculture is by definition unsustainable."https://t.co/OQtCrLGwK3
The problem isn't illegal fruit, says purveyors of illegal fruit.https://t.co/ASEXRqQ303
We have to stop these illegal fruits from taking over other industries.It should be illegal to call banana peppers "banana"It should be illegal to call apple bananas "apple"it should be illegal to call banana milk "milk" 🤔https://t.co/YKtn94HGUk
Listen, If you wanna go and make your own "banana milk" out of canned apple bananas and blending it with milk thickened with corn, in the privacy of your own home? Go ahead.But food labels are sacred.https://t.co/14q7tx1qHw
Bananas are dangerous: fact.https://t.co/gmnMWfQnaP
"The major one that produces penetrating gamma radiation that can escape from the body is a radioactive isotope of potassium, called potassium-40. [...] it is present in pretty much all the tissues of the body."🍌https://t.co/8bD9Zv7yfj
Bobbing for apples, satan's fruit.https://t.co/bCXVhp5C8U
lol |/\ __ 0/\ \\ 🐍🍎🍏🍍🖊️ https://t.co/0rIiEvYOnY
The ultimate illegal fruit... Fermented apple sauce."Keep in mind, humans only figured out how to brew beer about 9,000 years ago. But this study implies that we could have been boozing it up since the beginning of time. "https://t.co/q3Zliukvez
Can bananas be used in place of aloe when making hand sanitizer? Illegal Gros Michel sanitizer made of 100% banana."Fully ripened bananas are emollient and highly moisturising; when applied topically they soften the skin, making it flexible and pliable"https://t.co/yNVq3sujE5"
Sing songs to your children to encourage proper consumption of fruits, ignoring the realities of them picked by economically trapped and politically captured countries.https://t.co/1L1eIcmAdthttps://t.co/PUGTQO48Jv
Ah yes, children's educational programming.https://t.co/6z96qhpXh4
Good morning!Have you considered re-framing bananas as an illegal drug; to better position your reasoning toward solving the problem. @AutomatOfStyle https://t.co/XpK4ef5EIc
Did you know you can make clothing and rope out of banana fibers?https://t.co/69AhS8KYZY
Reading about vegan friendly beer & wine production and giggling to myself about illegal fruits. (E.g. the joke I'm about to make).https://t.co/uM1zSTLJWC
You ever think about making illegal fruit wines? But instead of using actual fruit, you use 'avocacdo'.https://t.co/6D4238FegDMy GF pointed out this image is also a 'crotch-shot'.https://t.co/DZtIO0sVNq https://t.co/wMh1lrd9ln
Going to go pick some apples today while talking to my GF about the "Bananapocalypse" and wonder about pesticide levels in apple vineyards.“Cavendish is the Red Delicious of bananas—it stores forever but has a horrible taste.”https://t.co/H8GnqgpEd7https://t.co/EVTvSyY2iV
"For example, bananas contain resistant starch and inulin-type fructans, while apples are a source of pectin. Thus, diets rich in plant-based foods provide many different types of dietary fibers thereby supporting a more diverse microbiota composition."https://t.co/xEjusZgkUl
Plant fibers as gateway drug. It changes your brain! "demonstrated that the microbiota can even change behavioral characteristics of mammals by altering brain chemistry." https://t.co/bGjOELWVoi
Ya'll got any of that corn syrup solids based infant formula thickening agent?https://t.co/Eo1ftlujDI
It's got carbohydrate, it's what babby crave.https://t.co/DqSIs7lFYZ
*squints real hard at a tomato*Tobacco is an illegal fruit!https://t.co/84Z2ZHxnZU
How much tomato sauce do I need to put in a pie before you call it a deep dish pizza?https://t.co/Lh7aM9O0hP
is it illegal in to put clam chowder on an open faced deep dish tomato pie, in Maine? https://t.co/ibqeHvmKmO
If I go to subway and ask them to put pepperoni and marinara sauce on a flat bread, cover it with cheese, and then toast it in their oven, is it a calzone?https://t.co/syhg6cSkjx
Imagine going to jail for illegal fruit trafficking. https://t.co/8Vx9q1qrPE
This is fine."Digested formula but not digested fresh human milk causes death of intestinal cells in vitro: implications for necrotizing enterocolitis."https://t.co/cjsDxZuKZn
Creating vitamin D using mushrooms that feed on cow-shit, from cows that are fed corn waste products. Mixing it into milk with illegal fruit juice goo. https://t.co/Crk7ywO1Y0
Illegal fruit cartels infest the very core of western civilization.https://t.co/Oj5fyb3gs4
"Scientists look for prebiotics from corn cobs"https://t.co/5r9lBMA2wl*screams internally*https://t.co/Jft4zL8Qsi
Look, I understand sugar is sugar, and dextrose is dextrose. The reason I don't want corn syrup in my beer is the same reason why I buy rice from the local rice farm. Pesticide use and destructive farming practices.https://t.co/3zLLDBDo3e
"Among herbicides, atrazine was the most widely usedactive ingredient (applied to 60 percent of plantedacres) (Table 2). It was also the most widely appliedingredient in the 2014 survey of corn producers."https://t.co/qjQKIri62m
Did you know you can use ducks to fight weeds in a rice farm?https://t.co/oDIZqKPx0X
I learned a lot about growing rice recently.https://t.co/IldAkhivag
One of the videos in that collection shows the farmer laying down strips to allow ants to reach the rice to fight off predators, which can help reduce pesticides further.There's a lot of potential in these methods to avoid needing pesticides entirely.https://t.co/5vPJxWvouH
"Ah honey, ah sugar sugarYou are my candy girlAnd you've got me wanting you"🎶https://t.co/onn8WQo8gShttps://t.co/TE32TsIwj1
"Alaska has fewer moose and a paucity of fruit trees, but where the two entities overlap -- in Anchorage, for example -- reports of drunken moose also abound. Alaska's best-known public inebriate may have been Buzzwinkle." https://t.co/OYZYmZDVnj
Illegal fruit operations, in a store near you.https://t.co/QQ8iKGg4YJ
Fly Agaric mushrooms have been deemed an illegal fruit since the Bavarian Beer Act from 1516.https://t.co/Q3O9ZZTFKE
Grass Fruit may have lead to foundation of civilization.https://t.co/LXi6KDQr1J
Someone sold an NFT of a @banana https://t.co/vDrcNqItzL
Technically speaking, if someone sold that banana to one of the US sanctioned wallets it would become an illegal banana.https://t.co/TxP07hbUXp
This is is going to turn avocados into literal illegal fruits. You won't be able to get them without going thru some underground market.https://t.co/910UEuXwJXhttps://t.co/fBohYq58XW