[cookiemonster]

About a dollar (USD).

[IamRobot]

They charge per pound here, not per banana.

[euylvaygdq]

In market about P15/kg, from street vendors it's about P1/banana depending on the location

[ayWCZ7VT]

A bag of bananas is a pound in our street market too.

Did you know they are radioactive? /docfeelgood.

[ZwHRoTTn]

Last time I was at the grocery store I think I paid somewhere between 41 cents a pound and 61 cents a pound. (It was either 41, 51 or 61, don't remember which).

[QYD8eQ8F]

At trader Joe's it's per piece

I knew your smug ass shopped at Trader Joe's.


And it's 2lbs/$1 here. Bananas are by far the cheapest fruit.

Interesting that it's three times as expensive in Britain.

[bikersfan]

I don't talk about my bananas.

[vTLWqa1l]

52 Cents per lb where I am.

Yeah. HC in Virginia, me in Philly, and you in Michigan all same price.

I'm intrigued now as to why bananas are 3x more expensive in Britain.

[xtrudood]

I'm intrigued now as to why bananas are 3x more expensive in Britain.

I don't think they are though. Now, my maths is rubbish but...

Average banana weight is 120g without the peel, according to the International Banana Association.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_th...anana_in_grams

So six weigh 720g, plus the peel which would probably take it to around a kg.

This tallies with the official price of a kg of bananas in the UK on 1/1/2011 of 99p.
http://tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/ec...banana-prices/

If people are paying ~50c/lb in the US that's ~$1.10 a kilo (if 1kg=2.2lb), or about 68p, compared to £1 in the UK.

So bananas in the US are approx 2/3 the price of the UK, not 1/3.

Now, consider where bananas are produced, and we can see that the US has plenty of major banana producers a lot nearer to it than the UK has.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ag...ana-production

So with shipping costs substantially lower, and with workers in the US being free to get paid a lot less than the evil eurocommies, that's probably almost comparable given the differing circumstances.


:whereistehbananasmiley:

[Jxmwzgpv]

same, although won't have any new ones ready for at least a month.

You have a banana tree?

[Blaxastij]

Shhhhh.

[IamRobot]

several. they're not mine, but shared by myself and the neighbours. we also have a jaca tree, a goiaba tree and a caju tree and i think there's a pear tree if you travel a little further down the hill.

It's amazing how many fruits that are consumed in Latin America and Brazil that are unknown here in the United States outside of the Spanish community. My grocery store sells a bunch of weird fruit in frozen pulp form. A lot of it tastes so sour, though. I don't remember what they were called.

[Pypeassesty]

Açai berries? They're becoming the next great thing in "natural health" over here.

[brurdefdoro]

5 cigarettes.

[huntbytnkbel]

well we are paying ~ 7HRK per kilo ~ 80p

in the supermarket...

[xanaxnewtrader]

One time, I was in this public bathroom stall and there was a waist level hole on the side with writing below that said "free banana dispensary." Needless to say, it was not a banana.

[ButKnillinoi]

Our bananas are $0.59 a pound.

I made a point of checking while at the store.

$0.67 here.