{"id":487,"date":"2008-02-20T12:24:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T12:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/organic-bananas\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:51","slug":"organic-bananas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/organic-bananas\/","title":{"rendered":"Organic Bananas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/bananas.jpg\">I like bananas.  And about a year ago, organic bananas were on sale at the local supermarket, so I tried them.<\/p>\n<p>I got hooked.  They taste better.  I have not sponsored a double blind study tasting both kinds, but the organic bananas seem to have a better texture and a more banana taste. They also seem to last longer sitting on my kitchen counter.<\/p>\n<p>I only have one question for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doleorganic.com\/\">Dole,<\/a> the grower of my organic bananas.  Why do you wrap each bunch of bananas in thick plastic? <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy to pay the few cents more for no fertilizer, no herbicides, no insecticides.  I am not happy to pay for the plastic around each bunch.  I can understand that the grocery stores across the country do not want their checkout people accidentally charging non-organic prices for organic goods.  I can understand not giving customers the ability to tear off part of a  bunch and buy just a few. <\/p>\n<p>But can&#8217;t that be done some other way?  I would be happier with a thinner plastic with holes in it. <\/p>\n<p>I just hope their reasoning is not that the plastic bag makes my bananas taste better.<\/p>\n<p>(Image derived from Bananas, December 2006 by photographer Steve Hopson. Image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5. More information about photographer and other photos: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Stevehopson.com\">SteveHopson.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like bananas. And about a year ago, organic bananas were on sale at the local supermarket, so I tried them. I got hooked. They taste better. I have not sponsored a double blind study tasting both kinds, but the organic bananas seem to have a better texture and a more banana taste. They also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9922,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/9922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}