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With bananas being on sale for over $12 a kilo in NSW supermarkets since early in the year, no-one I know has been buying them, so where do they go - what do supermarkets do with the excess, unsold produce? Throw it away?? It wouldn't be much good even for cooking after a while, surely?

2006-11-19 21:00:32 · 12 answers · asked by mudgeemum 2 in Food & Drink Other - Food & Drink

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bananas which are left unsold in the markets are used for making banana fries.These are used as savoury and sold in packets almost in all the markets.

2006-11-19 21:09:53 · answer #1 · answered by jabasen2005 1 · 0 0

In Hobart in Tasmania the price varies from $14.98 per kilo to $6.99 a kilo. The bananas are either very small, very green or over ripe. I did buy some nice smallish ones the other day but they have not lasted well.

2006-11-20 05:48:45 · answer #2 · answered by burbs03 2 · 0 0

nothing exciting happened to the bananas except the crops in qld were all ruined at the start of the year, and although they are expensive, they sell still, just not in the quantities we are used to seeing. and very little produce is actually thrown away in supermarkets, its rotated and sold at such a rate that there isnt a need to dump it. and at about $2 to $2.50 a banana or $2 to $2.50 for a bucket of chips, i know what i would feed my children (sorry, i work in retail and hear mums saying no to their kids for fruit, and telling them to get a chocolate bar etc all the time)

2006-11-20 11:19:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

My 14 month old loves them. I paid $12 for 5 the other day! Sad, it's too expensive to feed your children healthy food. Its so much cheaper to buy a bucket of hot chips. Costs me a fortune at the fruit and veg shop. The mind boggles

2006-11-20 05:09:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

probably the same place as the spinach mongers have been doing with spinach in my area.. havent found spinach for over 6 months... I love fresh spinach salad.. (by the way, I have bananas right now, sitting out, waiting for me to make some banana bread for my kids)

2006-11-20 05:06:46 · answer #5 · answered by Mintee 7 · 0 0

Bananas are selling cheap here! 50 cents a pound or less. This year I have seen more variety of bananas available than any other year.

2006-11-20 05:17:40 · answer #6 · answered by Deb 3 · 0 0

I read somplace about 3 years ago, bananas may be extinct in 20 years from over-farming them

2006-11-20 05:02:44 · answer #7 · answered by Chris C 5 · 0 0

I heard something about chocolate having trouble with some fungus but that never affected halloween or valentines day. Interesting also because butter at this one store is no longer sold in five brands, now there's only 1 so forget that monopoly, I'd rather not buy it

2006-11-20 05:09:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

prolly dump them when they go off haven't seen any marked down about &12 kg here too in brissy better than the $19 kg a few months ago but i will wait till they are $1 kg again

2006-11-20 05:32:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It would be but that isn't how they work they have a public image to keep up with and they need their produce to look as freshas they can

2006-11-20 05:14:45 · answer #10 · answered by whay i lost my ?s 6 · 0 0

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