My daughter loves bananas. She eats a lot of bananas: bananas in the morning; bananas in the afternoon; bananas in the evening. Sometimes she eats bananas before dinner to ease the pain while dinner is cooking; and, sometimes, she eats a banana after dinner if she dislikes what she received.
Usually, by 6am, she has already consumed her first banana of the day, even before Morning Joe is on the air. Every morning she walks into the kitchen, mutters an "Ummmmmm" or "Uhhhhhhhhh" or "Ughhhhhhhh" right in front of where the bananas hang. If she does not receive one in the first five seconds that she asks, it becomes a gentle scream... well, no scream is gentle at 5:45am. Even if she cannot see the bananas or if we move them to another location, she finds them and requires one for her dinning pleasure. Needless to say, we must stock bananas in our apartment. Always.
In case your wondering about the purpose of the post, an Op-Ed in The New York Times discusses the price increase we will face for our cheapest fruit, as well as discussing the role of bananas in our markets, in developing the infrastructures of Central American nations, in shaping and overthrowing governments, and in diminishing the rights of workers under those governments. The end of the article suggests that we may not have bananas as a regular fruit for very long....and, if that day comes, I do not know what I will do each morning...
And for your listening pleasure, The Velvet Underground:
"Sunday Morning"
"I'm Waiting for the Man"
"Venus in Furs"
"Run Run Run"
"Sweet Jane (Live)"
3 comments:
Wild Man prefers berries--he runs through the house crying "berries" in the morning. Here in TX berries have gotten so expensive that C and I have resorted to driving 45 minutes to pick them ourselves. Even then, Wild Man will eat 3.5 pounds of blackberries in a week and a half.
Here's my question: what's the gas expense for the 45-minute drive as compared to the cost of 3.5 lbs. of berries. And if there is a train headed for Ontario at 75mph, will the cost of Canadian berries be lower?
When the price of blackberries and blueberries hit $4.00 a pint in our local grocery store, we decided it was worth the gas to drive 45 minutes to pick them ourselves--especially we only made 1 special trip there. The most recent trip--the 3.5 lb trip--we were on our way back from the airport and drove right past the orchards.
And I have no idea about trains reaching Ontario, but I will tell you that berries were much cheaper there, which was very surprising given that everything else was way more expensive!
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