One single plant, cloned thousands of times. Easily devastated by disease.

No flared base

...zero mess? What exactly are you doing with the "wrapper?" You know you're not supposed to eat it, right?

Bananas are a monoculture. One good, hard hitting, lethal pathogen could extinct them.

They're radioactive.

The monopoly that supplies most bananas to the "western" world has long been known to be a murderous corrupt corp? That's the one major drawback to that chewy sweet banana fiber.

History of banana and why it's cheap.

They'll be gone in 10-15 years? The current popular version anyway. A fungi is destroying them.

It happened before back in the fifties with the last version. Except there's nothing really close this time. The other types of bananas aren't close at all

One bad thing: it's all just clones so now it's extremely vulnerable to one kind of fungus, much like the gros michel banana it faces near extinction

Cheap

Except when some genius at your local Walmart changes the price from $0.87/pound to $1.56/banana.

My store went from number 1 in sales of bananas in the country to dead last in just under a week because whoever set the prices was an idiot.

Also genetic diversity is in the crapper. One epidemic and we won't have bananas anymore.

name one bad thing about it.

Okay, the wages and working conditions of plantation workers (modern slaves). The cost of bananas in first-world countries is ridiculously low, and is demeaning to those who work hard to enable this privilege for us.

The taste. I've tried to like them. Had them in smoothies and banana bread, had the is savoury and sweet things. I even made myself eat one everyday while hiking cross country, thinking I'd learn to associate the taste which much needed energy. Nothing worked, they just taste like garbage smells. And the texture! Firm and soft each have their unique horrors.

They have strings and the little brown tip.

I love bananas. About three years ago, I started having one banana and a spoonful of natural peanut butter for breakfast every day. It was easy and I loved it.

I put on 15 pounds before I noticed.

Americans use it as an excuse to avoid converting to metric.

A bad thing about bananas is that they look like Homer Simpson's penis

Nothing beats that time when Kirk Cameron & Ray Comfort were praising God about the brilliant design of bananas.

https://youtu.be/BXLqDGL1FSg

Except for there is like a 1 hour window when they taste really good and have a good texture. In between when they're green and taste like chalk and when they're full yellow and taste like mushy baby food.

Right in that 1 hour window? Delicious.

I have some bad news about bananas. The current strain we use as food is going extinct as the banana trees are ill and dying out. Luckily we're already changing a different strain to be ready for consumption (making them bigger and without seeds because yes, wild bananas are full of seeds).

Also cocoa plants are ill and dying and we don't have a different strain. So some time in the future we will be without chocolate.