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		<title>Bananas vs. junk.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve said before, the best thing the banana companies do is position their product as an alternative to salty snacks and candy. In this ad, from The New York Daily News (Oct. 23, 2009) the fruit also takes on pricier energy bars. A smart move that also notches prices up &#8211; at an averge of seventy-five cents for a convenience store single banana &#8211; to about four times the supermarket per pound tag.The single confusing thing is the newspaper ad. Will people seeing really be prompted to spontaeous banana purchases? [Mobile posted with iBlogger]]]></description>
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		<title>Wasteful &#8211; but innovative &#8211; banana packaging</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bananas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reason we have only one kind of banana &#8211; out of the 1,000+ found worldwide &#8211; is partly an issue of transportation: every banana type ripens differently and has widely varying levels of fragility. In the 1950s, when the &#8220;original&#8221; commercial banana, the Gros Michel, was going functionally extinct, Dole came up with the idea of bagging and boxing a potential replacement fruit &#8211; the Cavendish &#8211; in order to allow it to survive the long trip from the tropics to our stores. The plan worked, and the banana industry was saved. Today, as disease ravages the global Cavendish crop, packing and shipping technologies are once again becoming key to replacing the commercial fruit. At the same time, bananas compete more and more with candy and other junk food at convenience stores, where branding and presentation beyond an oval sticker might be a plus (at least in terms of marketing.) Del Monte and 7-Eleven seem to believe just that and have begun, at about 30 stores near the convenience store giant&#8217;s Dallas headquarters, a small retail test of bagged and branded bananas. The packaging is designed to extend the shelf-life of the fruit from two to five days. (I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banana Price Watch: 7-Eleven, Los Angeles</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bananas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banana Chiquita]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banana Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banana Price Watch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s my beloved local Sev. To zoom in, you&#8217;ve got to go there. So go. Interesting strategy at my favorite local convenience store, on the corner of Sunset Blvd. and Rosemont In the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles (just steps from Dodger Stadium.) Instead of the typical branded, presented-in-a-box fruit Chiquita is selling in many U.S. convenience stores, the fruit here is bought at local supermarkets and sold in an ordinary basket. At the current price &#8211; 69 cents per banana &#8211; the store manager told me customers purchased a respectable fifty or so a day. Still, he thought he could do better, and was about to add a twofer, with a pair of bananas going for a buck.&#160; The DIY approach nets the local shop a considerable profit over Chiquita&#39;s all-in-one strategy, which involves a national distribution network of refrigerated product, each fruit with a sticker on it, to of about 13,000 convenience stores. Chiquita&#39;s suggested retail price for its product is 75 to 99 cents. The benefit, it says, is that that the&#160;controlled supplyand special packaging allows the fruit to arrive at the stores perfectly ripe &#8211; eliminating the need for store managers to spend time waiting for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chiquita&#8217;s Pricey Belgian Airport Fruit &#8211; The Banana&#8217;s Future as a Snack Food?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bananas]]></category>
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		<title>Convenience Store Banana Report: Fail!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bananas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banana Chiquita]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banana Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spending the week in the great north country of New Hampshire and saw this sign adorning the entrance to a convenience store. No bananas of any kind inside, though. &#8220;We sold &#8216;em for 79 cents each, and you could buy a whole pound for that at the IGA down the street,&#8221; the clerk told me. It had been months since a Chiquita delivery.The competition from the Dunkin&#8217; Donuts &#8211; same price at the same location &#8211; couldn&#8217;t have helped much. Mobile Blogging from Colebrook, New Hampshire, U.S.A. [Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]]]></description>
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		<title>This ninny says bananas disprove evolution&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bananas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banana History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banana Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This fellow, Ray Comfort, is using a banana to prove that a &#8220;designer&#8221; created the universe. The general idea is that only an intelligent force could have created such a naturally convenient item (with a protective wrapper, an easy-to-use &#8220;pull tab,&#8221; perfect shape, etc.) There is so much stupid about this that it would be laughable, if so many people didn&#8217;t fall for it. The reality, simply put, is that the banana is so &#8220;perfect&#8221; for human consumption because we&#8217;ve spent seven millennia &#8211; longer than just about any other crop &#8211; cultivating it to be so. In other words, since we&#8217;ve selected and reselected the best bananas, finally arriving at the one we eat today, the fruit &#8211; rather than proving that an unseen hand created it &#8211; tells us the opposite: we&#8217;re the ones who made it what it is, and we used the tools of evolution to do so. Oh, and also, the other guy in the video is washed-up child star Kirk Cameron, of &#8220;Growing Pains.&#8221; Crediblity achieved. Watch the video&#8230;if you want to read more about Comfort, or the Athiest Test, click below (you&#8217;ll also find out why peanut butter contains yet another proof of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banana Splits of the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bananas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banana Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banana Recipes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banana Split Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banana Splits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE BANANA WAS ONE OF THE FIRST CONVENIENCE FOODS. It fit nicely into the brown bags and lunch pails of an America where city life was rapidly taking over from the rural existence most people had known in the country’s earlier days. The fruit was agreeable to just about everyone, from infants to old folks. It was also becoming the object of culinary innovation (or at least the creation of memorable treats.) In 1904, David Strickler, an apprentice pharmacist and soda fountain operator at a drugstore in Latrobe, Pennsylvania began serving a concoction made of three scoops of ice cream nestled between halves of a banana. His recipe for the dessert was one banana, cut lengthwise; scoops of vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry ice cream; a drenching of chocolate, pineapple, and then strawberry sauce; and a final sprinkling of nuts and a trio of whipped cream dollops topped with cherries. He charged ten cents for the creation and even had special boat-shaped dishes manufactured for serving the extra-large sundae.       Three years later, a version of the delicacy appeared at a restaurant owned by E. R. Hazard, 275 miles away, in Wilmington, Ohio. Hazard called his creation a “banana split.” Both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;Membrane-wrapped&quot; bananas, branded with their breed name</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bananas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banana Dole]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Dad sent this one in; it comes from Andy the Hobo Traveler&#8217;s blog. Andy discovered the single-serve fruits at a 7-11 in Manilla; each banana costs about a quarter. &#8220;I can purchase one banana without them getting angry,&#8221; Andy writes. &#8220;I am single, not married, to buy bananas even in the market is annoying, they do not like me to rip off two or three, and one is totally a great way to get them annoyed.&#8221; Single bananas for single buyers isn&#8217;t all that new, but marketing them like candy bars is. Chiquita has just begun doing it in the U.S. We&#8217;ve got plenty of them at convenience stores here in Los Angeles, priced at about 75 cents. Whether here or in Asia, there&#8217;s more to this than just a simple in-store display. A considerable amount of technology and labor is required to sell bananas by the piece &#8211; most of it concerned with consistency at the display case. The bananas need to ripen at the same speed; they need to be sized the same. The process begins at the plantations, according to a March, 2007 story in the Boston Globe: &#8220;At Chiquita&#8217;s packaging plants, workers hand pick the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Made in a plant that processes Peanuts&#174;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bananas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, scooped by BoingBoing. In Japan, Lucy and Snoopy hawk popcorn with &#8220;banana milk&#8221; flavor. Picture from Cory Doctorow&#8217;s flickr stream. PS, you can&#8217;t buy the popcorn stateside, but somewhat yummy Nesquik banana milk is only as far as your local Circle-K, AM-PM, or Kum &#38; Go or &#8211; and this is kind of weird - United Dairy Farmers convenience store. The latter is the family business that launched the career of Carl Lindner, former chairman of Chiquita. Test]]></description>
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