bananas
Are You A Pro-Sumer? Let Bill Quain, PhD, Show You How!
Amway! There, we just saved you the trouble of reading Pro-Sumer Power!, Bill Quain's riveting get-rich-quick book from 2000, which Alan Scherstuhl found in a thrift store recently and recaps for your amusement over at the Village Voice. You see, producers make money. Consumers spend money. And Pro-sumers make money while they spend. Still not clear? You're a banana when you should be some sort of banana-gorilla hybrid. More »
Save money by polishing your shoes with a banana. Monkeys have been doing it for millennia. [Huffington Post] (Thanks to daveburdick !) More »
Mom Finds Scorpion In Bananas
A young mom found an Israeli Gold scorpion in a pile of bananas she picked up from ASDA, a UK supermarket chain owned by Walmart. More »
Bananas Represent Everything That Is Wrong With Our Food System
Ever wonder why bananas are the cheapest fruit in the supermarket? It makes no sense. They're grown thousands of miles away by steely imperialist multinational corporations, and spoil within two weeks. A Times Op-Ed argues that bananas are on their way out, and may disappear entirely from store shelves in the next twenty years. More »
Safe Banana
Have you ever taken your bannana to work, only to open your lunch sack and find the fruit bruised and squidgy? More »
Yes, We Have No Bananas!
Bad news, you monkeys! The banana is going extinct. A plantainless dystopia awaits where banana bread beer goes depressingly unmanufcatured and the banana hammock becomes the zucchini sling. More »
