Bananas

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt is joined by comedy writer Lydia Bugg (1900HOTDOG, the ‘Trailer Park Boys’ comic anthology) and comedian/podcaster Teresa Lee (‘You Can Tell Me Anything’ podcast, album ‘We’re Still Doing This’) for a look at why bananas are secretly incredibly fascinating.

Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.

LINKS FOR THE GUESTS:

• Lydia Bugg on Twitter
• 1900HOTDOG
• Trailer Park Boys Get a F#¢*!ng Comic Book! #1
• Teresa Lee’s website
• Teresa Lee’s stand-up album We’re Still Doing This on Bandcamp
• ‘You Can Tell Me Anything’ podcast (WhoHaHa)

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• Mapping Manahatta: 10 Lenape sites in New York City (6sqft)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• The New Oxford Book Of Food Plants by J.G. Vaughan and C.A. Geissler
• What have plants ever done for us? by Stephen Harris
• Banana: A Global History by Lorna Piatti-Farnell
• Why Are Bananas So Cheap?: The United States overthrew the government of a sovereign country in the 1950s. That’s one reason. (National Geographic)
• The Surprising Science Behind the World’s Most Popular Fruit (National Geographic)
• The Miracle of the Modern Banana (National Geographic)
• Soccer in the spotlight as Europe grapples with racism on and off the field (NBC News)
• Villarreal give life ban to rogue fan who threw banana at Dani Alves (CNN)
• The banana is one step closer to disappearing (National Geographic)
• The secrets of fake flavours (BBC Future)
• Devastating banana disease reported in Peru (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
• This Banana Peel Pulled “Pork” Is TikTok’s Best Zero-Waste Recipe (Popsugar.com)
• Banana Peel Bacon recipe (“It Doesn’t Taste Like Chicken” recipe blog)
• Bulbapedia page for Dugtrio — “Dugtrio is a set of Diglett triplets sharing a single body.”

WILD BANANA WITH SEEDS:

DIAGRAM OF A BANANA PLANT: