Just went to our local sarnie man and bought a banana , I remember when they use to be curved like a proper banana , whats the cop with this ay !!

 

ok, just why did you go and buy a banana eh? :p

ok, just why did you go and buy a banana eh? :p

 

erm i was hungry :confused: Crazy huh !! LMAO

Hey its healthy, only another 4 bits to go and you've had your daily allowance yay! :hyper:

Where do the batterys go??? :rofl:

they are being genetically modified to grow straiter because tehy can pack more ina crate that way. I kid you not

they are being genetically modified to grow straiter because tehy can pack more ina crate that way. I kid you not

True, it's all down to the Americans. If fact because of their messing with a excellent fruit we are now in danger of losing the Bannana from the face of the earth as they are no longer able to fight off banana dieases. Except for a variety grow in the Cannary Isle's. Experts say 10 years and that's the end of the banana.

Queue, bannana panic buying! Think I'll buy a stash, freeze them then auction them off to the highest bidder. I will bend them first though to remind people of the good old days. LOL :nana2: :nana2: :nana2:

hmm, dont think it would be genetic mate. more like careful selection...

True, it's all down to the Americans. If fact because of their messing with a excellent fruit we are now in danger of losing the Bannana from the face of the earth as they are no longer able to fight off banana dieases. Except for a variety grow in the Cannary Isle's. Experts say 10 years and that's the end of the banana.

 

 

Lot of girls will be sad

 

Note to self :slap:

Thread of the day :rofl:

 

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i wouldnt buy a straight banana out of principle!!

i see a gap in the market for banana benders!

Would you have paid 15p more for a curved banana if they had one though? Most of the cost is shipping*

 

*(facts based purely on my uneducated guesswork)

PMSL the first post iv read this week that i can laugh @

 

trust the turk to buy a straight bannana :D

 

it must be a bananna evolution 7 :p :smw:

pmsl :rofl:

The EU defined our Bannanas and Cucumbers are not straight enough !!

Hence almost straight bannanas.

Wait till they start with apples and oranges !!

Can you imagine the pain trying to eat a square apple !! :rofl:

The EU defined our Bannanas and Cucumbers are not straight enough !!

Hence almost straight bannanas.

Wait till they start with apples and oranges !!

Can you imagine the pain trying to eat a square apple !! :rofl:

pmsl and just image what they'll do the Star Fruit :p

lol square apple would be amazing!! they'd start selling it along with mars bars and twixes!

i want square apples! :D

:rofl: this is mental.....

 

what if an orange changed its colour..... would it still be an orange :confused:

crap, blue oranges! and if they start genetically altering fruit, what about blood oranges with real blood! :hurl:

...and was the colour orange named after the fruit?

All these questions answered and more on "How2" :rofl:

...and was the colour orange named after the fruit?

Now that's a another kettle of fish. It's like asking which came first the chicken or the egg. I'm I mixing my metaphors again? :rofl:

Now that's a another kettle of fish. It's like asking which came first the chicken or the egg. I'm I mixing my metaphors again? :rofl:

 

"The color orange is called orange because oranges are orange.

 

The word orange first entered our English language in the fourteenth century, in reference to the globose citrus fruit of the orange tree (orange referring to the tree itself, as in "groves of oranges," took another 250 or so years to appear).

 

The earlier history of the word is a bit of a mess, but roughly, English borrowed it from Old French orenge, which borrowed it from Arabic náranj, which borrowed it from Persian nárang, which borrowed it from Sanskrit náranga 'orange tree' (all foregoing acute accents should really be macrons, and the second n in the Sanskrit word should have a dot over it).

 

If you're wondering what happened to the initial n-, the probable answer is that it was lost by metanalysis, which, we recall, is a change in the division between words, which in English gives rise to an adder, originally a nadder. The original French was probably une narenge, with the definite article absorbing the initial n- of the noun. Spanish, by contrast, also borrowed the Arabic word, but in Spanish it ended up as naranja, since the word didn't undergo metanalysis. The change in French from arange to orenge is thought to be due to the influence of French or 'gold', alluding to the color, or perhaps Orange, a town in southeast France through which oranges were shipped.

 

The color orange 'a color in the spectrum between red and yellow' comes from the appearance of the fruit. This sense is first found in the sixteenth century."