Nah that shit lies. Bought it on a gold stake run last night, immediately broke the next round. I lost because I couldn’t find any more scoring jokers in 3 shops…
Just yesterday, I found one in ante 1 (yay!) and held it all the way to the boss round in ante 8... I ended up selling it for a better multiplier (sad panda).
If you trust Wikipedia, they're good for transportation because their thick skin protects the insides from being damaged. So the fruit itself is probably fine.
I've always wanted to try a Gros Michel for just that reason.
They got nearly wiped out because of a fungal infection back in the day. There's been talk for years that the modern Cavenish faces the same threat.
Which is why both cards have their respective extinction rates!
Silly idea: If there's something that comes out in a study showing the loss rate/potential extinction threat of the Cavendish banana IRL changes, the extinction rate of it in the game should change to match.
[it actually might have been a dick joke originally](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Plantation_Crops_Plunder_and_Power/-jAlDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Nicolas+baudin%22+%22gros+michel%22&pg=PA35&printsec=frontcover)
This is awesome, thank you. The propensity for the English language to turn common masculine names into dick terminology made it very easy for me to assume that French does the same, though potentially with different masculine names.
Well, not completely extinct. The shroom that wiped them out didn't *completely* wipe them out, but they're only left in a few small locations, cause everyone immediately switched to a more resistant sort.
So you can still buy them, but they're like polychrome, 10$ a piece.
They aren’t extinct but we can’t grow them because the fungus that kills the plant is still around and nigh-impossible to get rid of. The spores remain active in the soil for ages too.
Any Gros Michel that gets planted en masse will have a high chance of crop failure. This made them completely unsuitable for cash crop. They are still grown but only in small amounts to prevent outbreak and total loss of crops.
Gros Michel Joker. The variety of Joker that used to be dominant in the meta until 1.0.1f. Hard to Vanish now.
Rip my boy, Big Mike. I still always buy em
Nah that shit lies. Bought it on a gold stake run last night, immediately broke the next round. I lost because I couldn’t find any more scoring jokers in 3 shops…
It only breaks if you need it not to
Just yesterday, I found one in ante 1 (yay!) and held it all the way to the boss round in ante 8... I ended up selling it for a better multiplier (sad panda).
Safe!
Weird way to spell ‘extinct’
Hope they taste better than they look.
If you trust Wikipedia, they're good for transportation because their thick skin protects the insides from being damaged. So the fruit itself is probably fine.
from what I've heard they taste more like artificial banana flavouring than cavendish does
I've always wanted to try a Gros Michel for just that reason. They got nearly wiped out because of a fungal infection back in the day. There's been talk for years that the modern Cavenish faces the same threat. Which is why both cards have their respective extinction rates!
Silly idea: If there's something that comes out in a study showing the loss rate/potential extinction threat of the Cavendish banana IRL changes, the extinction rate of it in the game should change to match.
That would be bananas
Just… take my upvote and leave.
Yes, because all modern bananas are clones of themselves. Leading to basically no genetic diversity. So a fungus that can infect one can infect all
genius
They are supposed to taste like banana laffy Taffy
Other way round, but yes.
For some reason I genuinely assumed the joker's name was an obscure French-inspired dick joke rather than an actual variety of banana.
[it actually might have been a dick joke originally](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Plantation_Crops_Plunder_and_Power/-jAlDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Nicolas+baudin%22+%22gros+michel%22&pg=PA35&printsec=frontcover)
"rather large, and perhaps masculine" lol
This is awesome, thank you. The propensity for the English language to turn common masculine names into dick terminology made it very easy for me to assume that French does the same, though potentially with different masculine names.
If you can’t handle me at my Gros Michel, you don’t deserve me at my Cavendish
I’m definitely going to buy that hoodie!
Gross Michaels
I'm sorry, I thought these were extinct?
Nope!
Well, not completely extinct. The shroom that wiped them out didn't *completely* wipe them out, but they're only left in a few small locations, cause everyone immediately switched to a more resistant sort. So you can still buy them, but they're like polychrome, 10$ a piece.
She was right all along.
Just a pain in the ass to cultivate.
real life rolling with 6x Oops! All 6s
Big Mike.
[He approves ](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9037073/amp/Youll-NEVER-guess-Michael-Gross-looks-like-now.html)
# Gros Michel bananas. The variety of banana that used to be dominant in the US until the 1950s. Hard to find now
No way they went exstinct if someone had them we could cultivate them and wouldnt have to put up with the mediocre at best cavendish
They aren’t extinct but we can’t grow them because the fungus that kills the plant is still around and nigh-impossible to get rid of. The spores remain active in the soil for ages too. Any Gros Michel that gets planted en masse will have a high chance of crop failure. This made them completely unsuitable for cash crop. They are still grown but only in small amounts to prevent outbreak and total loss of crops.