Do bananas make good chips? Do they go with Haggis and Neeps?
Not such daft questions given that as our climate is changing and in many places warming then traditional crops such as wheat and maize and potatoes will be replaced by more 'tropical' produce and bananas could become the stable diet for many in the world.
Whether they'll ever be grown in Scotland I don't know. Scotland is one of those blips in the global warming debate and is also a reason we don't and shouldn't talk of global warming but rather climate change. Anyway, Scotland is certainly going to become wetter with cooler summers and milder winters under one more for the future so we might manage to retain the potato but its an interesting way to engage with climate change: what recipes will become our traditional meals? Banoffee Pie? Baked Banana and chocolate?
The point is that climate is changing but then it always has. Climate change is not a new concept to in the deep time of Planet Earth. It's been a whole lot cooler (snowball earth) and it has been a whole lot warmer where much of the single continent that what the land mass of our planet 250 million years ago was desert. It's just that humans haven't been on the planet when it has had any significant change in temperature. We've built a lifestyle and economy and inventions that work when the temperature ranges seasonally as it does now, except the last couple of years where there have been annual climate volatility and extreme weather patterns and look what happened to food prices and insurance bills.
So go start inventing some banana recipes. Publish them here. We can try them out and be ahead of the crowd when bananas are the vogue stable in our diet.
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