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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 25 points 5 days ago

Someone should tell her that bananas are a GMO. So is rice, corn, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, brussels sprouts, kale, and mustard. They all exist because humans modified them, if humans didn't exist then neither would those plants.

Ironically the one thing that isn't a GMO is the damn egg.

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[-] TownhouseGloryHole@lemmy.world 80 points 6 days ago

"NON-GMO"

Proceeds to use banana...

[-] Bombastion 29 points 6 days ago

I agree that most anti-GMO stances are silly, but Cavendish bananas aren't GMO. (The history of major banana cultivars is super interesting, though!)

[-] scholar@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

Almost all food crops are GMO through the practice of selective breeding. Bananas have been altered to be sterile, seedless, and have larger edible fruit.

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[-] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 days ago

but Cavendish bananas aren’t GMO

They are. We took something barely edible in nature and bred it to the point where it's a tasty treat. It's a perfect example of GMO.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

Yes, but can us Pro-GMO get Gros Michels back into production? I'll let Monsanto inject me with 5G Tylenol vaccines for the rebirth of those yellow fatties.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

The usual vegan recipe complaint: "I wanted to follow your recipe for grandma's meatloaf, but substituted anything offending with the first thing I found on google. Your meatloaf neither looks nor tastes like my Grandma's!"

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 46 points 6 days ago

Thing is a ripe mashed banana can be used as an egg substitute for recipes. Not that one clearly.

[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 27 points 6 days ago

Ok, but ... sometimes one just has to acknowledge that a banana isn't an egg, you know?

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[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Probably not when it's the main ingredient like in this case

Might as well just make a banana pie

[-] grue@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

Instructions unclear; what do I do with this circuit board?

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[-] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 6 days ago

I just recently found out that (in some cakes) bananes actually can eb eggs. Pretty cool!

[-] udon@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Yes, basically in any cake that doesn't have "Egg" in the name :)

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[-] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

Veganism is a cult. You can't change my mind.

[-] canofcam@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Veganism is ethical. Vegans can be stupid the same way carnivores can be. This reductive belief system may work in a world without critical thinking but I find your comment just as stupid as the one in this post.

[-] Bluewing@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

There are vegans and then there are militant vegans. And those militant ones tend to be new to veganism. Or they are just straight up assholes.

But the few vegans I have known were very nice people and you wouldn't know they were vegans if you weren't swapping recipes with them.

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[-] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

Veganism is a specific version of ethics/morality, extended to other organisms beyond humans.

Other specific versions of ethics/morality in the world exist, like religion, political ideologies, cultural norms, etc.

On a philosophical level, it's not different in that regard.

You're just trying to scare bait people from having an open mind about the tradition

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 6 days ago

I tried a recipe for a cake but I substituted the dry ingredients for buns because they're already baked, I replaced the chocolate with burger, and I replaced the frosting with sauce. Can anyone explain to me why my cake tastes like a hamburger now?

[-] Bluewing@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Weirdly enough a mashed banana can be an egg substitute for the right recipe.

My Wife has celiac, so no gluten for her. So when looking for gluten free recipes, we often come across full on vegan recipes with substitutes. A mashed banana for eggs is one of them.

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[-] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 24 points 6 days ago

I used to try and gauge how good a recipe I found online is by reading through the comments that people leave below. However, about 10 years ago or so, I had to stop because it seemed like nearly every single one had multiple comments like this, though not quite as extreme. I think some people are like me, they must enjoy pretending to be faceboomers and leaving ridiculous comments on random sites. I still remember one that I read a while ago that gave me a giant chuckle. But most of them just give me heart burn. Then again so does eggs.

[-] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

I love recipe comments like these. It is really just insight into how absolutely ludicrous and entitled people are. Why can't your recipe simply bend reality to my will, and modify itself into what I desire to give me the outcome of my dreams.

"Instead of chicken I used an unborn cow's fetus and it tasted a bit funny, 1/5 stars"

[-] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 16 points 6 days ago

We didn't have any potatoes on hand for the potato salad so we used diced up and used our pet clown fish instead. It tasted funny.

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[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 18 points 6 days ago

A+ for diplomacy

[-] plyth@feddit.org 7 points 5 days ago

is not always going to work.

How often does one have to try?

[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

It depends on the recipe. Replacing egg with banana in muffins, where you mainly need it for the moisture? Works fine.
Replacing egg with banana in a custard, where you need it as a binding agent and stiffener? Won't work.
Replacing egg white with banana in a meringue? What are you even doing?

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Replacing egg white with banana in a meringue? What are you even doing?

Having read more than one discussion column on recipe sites, I would not put it past some people. They would first complain that there are no instructions on how to separate a banana, then that whisking it does not produce something resembling a beaten egg white, and finally that baking it produces something not even close to meringue. Ah, yes, and because they added the amount of sugar given in the recipe, they'll finally complain about the result being overly sweet.

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[-] JoshsJunkDrawer@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

The good thing is that bananas have no bones.

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I Didn’t Have Eggs

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