Download Love & Pies here: pixly.go2cloud.org/SH3oG Thanks to Love & Pies for sponsoring! i like banana flavored stuff but everyone ive ever known has hated it so i thought it was a widely known thing that people hate it??? im so confused but happy i found such a large fanbase for banana flavored positivity???????

When I was a kid I asked my dad about this, and he told me "they taste like bananas used to, before the Banana Wars." I thought he was just messing with me, but I was a fool for doubting a middle aged dad about military or agricultural history.

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what made gabi belle so popular was HER thick skin and ability to grow in large bunches

Fun fact: Gabi says the word "Banana" 73 times in this video

Fun fact: isoamyl acetate is also the pheromone bees use when they sting to signal other bees to attack. So if you're eating banana flavoured candy outside you are at a higher than zero risk of being attacked by bees

The whole internet killing itself over cake/tattoo gate while gabi belle is talking about famous hats and banana candies. Absolute mastermind.

Banana fact: It is illegal to import bananas in Australia. Yes, because of the Panama disease. There are multiple varieties of the Panama disease, some of which can infect Cavendish and Lady Finger varietals. In Australia, because of our hatred of foreign bananas; the spread of the sequels has been thus far fairly isolated and contained.

I was on vacation on the Canary Islands a while ago where I visited a tiny little tourist attraction which was basically a guy growing some exotic fruit in his massive garden. He also grew this thing called an apple banana. I tried it and can confirm it’s a banana that tastes 100% like apple.

I actually like artificial banana flavor. Also, I've had candy with "natural banana flavor" and it tastes pretty much the same. So I figured it was just enhancing some specific portion of the flavor.

i'll hear you out gabi but i'm secretly a fan of banana laffy taffy

GOD i love me a neatly packaged self-contained hyper-specific yt video where i learn a bunch of things then forget everything then come back a few months later and relearn it all again. then of course i forget and relearn the same information over and over again forever. i feel like gabi and drew gooden live next door in my brain when i want that sweet sweet refined video experience

Me being Colombian, Gabi pronouncing the words "United Fruit Company" triggered my patriotic defense system, for context search "Las Bananeras" because I would talk about this for hours.

I love how Gabi always comes up with the most obscure topics that seem to instantly unlock a primal curiosity of needing to know these things in a very detailed manner

I will not stand for this banana slander. My friend hates banana laffy taffy and I hate grape laffy taffy. Grape is her favorite and banana is mine. So it works out in the end lol

I literally told this exact same story to my mum YESTERDAY without all the minion references…

WHAT?! I LOVE BANANA FLAVOUR!! 🍌💖 I had no idea it was even unpopular, I thought everybody hated lemon the most! 🍋

Shoutout to artificial flavor scientists (i dunno if that's what they're called just making assumptions here) for tasting watermelon, a fruit that's like 90% water and being like yep, that's sour.

I'm tired of banana-flavored slander

When you find out that the Banana Phone song has more lyrics than you originally thought

Fun fact - Isoamyle acetate is a byproduct of some yeast and fungus when fermenting. That is why sometimes when bread goes moldy, it starts to smell like a banana. It is also why weiss bier also smells banany - the yeast produce it when fermenting.

Side not: for anyone interested, the term "Banana Republic" comes from a fantastic novel by O. Henry called "Cabbages and Kings." I highly recommend it! Based on his time spent in Honduras, witnessing the United Fruit company influence governments and start coups and stuff. It's pretty funny too

As a person from South America who’s quite familiar with the dramatic effects of bananas in the region… I gotta thank you for featuring some colonialism history in this video, so we can all be aware of it every time we eat a banana flavored Laffy taffy.

banana flavoured candy have always been my favourite! i knew vaguely that it was based on a type of bananas that we dont have anymore but this was really interesting! i actually quite dislike current real bananas flavour.

I love all your videogame sound effects and references

Holy crap, there’s a brand of pear cider that always tasted like fake bananas to me and now I know why (it’s delicious btw)

I already knew all this but it was still a fun video. I've always wanted to taste the old bananas and see how similar it actually is to the candy

The song at the end gave me flash backs to a popular early 00's flash animation about the Banana Phone song. Someone even uploaded the old flash animation to youtube. I don't think I've thought about that in 20 years. Crazy how something can just rest in the back of your mind.

Im so thankful for the banana song warning lmao. It’s midnight and I have an exam tomorrow at 8 in the morning and I just know it would’ve been stuck in my head til the morning if I heard it

i've never tried American banana flavored candy, but I did try some Korean and Japanese ones and they're pretty good. Especially the Korean ones. Can't remember the name. Also banana milk is super good. Would recommend 10/10.

Actually the Cavendish Banana probably only has

As a Honduran, I WASN'T expecting a free shoutout. Thank you for giving me a little bit more culture about my country 😂

Finally. The video essay I have been waiting for.

circus peanuts are the original banana flavor. you can find some flavoured things from South Korea like Milk and Ice-Pops. Here in Canada we do not have circus peanuts, though we do have a banana shaped marshmallow candy that does a decent job of recreating the flavour.

I love the commitment to the theme. The yellow eyeshadow, earrings, shirt, and bananas are perfection!!!

Thank you for the chapters on this video, I was getting so lost.

I cannot contain my excitement for this video because I’m the only person I know who likes the banana flavor but I LOVE it and the weird feeling it leaves on my lips. I’m so excited to learn why

If you want to learn more about how insanely cruel the modern banana industry still is, I recomend the documentuaries "Bananas*" and "Big boys gone bananas" by Fredrik Gertten.

Idk if anyone has commented this but your vibrato when singing is so good 😭 It's so oddly satisfying lol, you have a lovely voice

Love how the bananas changed places throughout the video, great video as ever!

Im amazed how consistently gabi delivers the exact content i need, right when i need it. wow. just wow.

i started playing love and pies a little while ago and was wildly surprised they did sponsors lol

Oh my god your commentaries doesn't fail to make me crack up 😅

I love banana flavored candy haha. I also eat bananas everyday, both on their own and in smoothies. They really are the best smoothie ingredient. Edit* to me, grape flavors are the one that taste nothing like their namesake. It's always been a big mystery to me.

It doesn’t taste good or like actual bananas, but I’d still eat it over most grape flavored candy. Though that’s probably because a certain grape flavored cough medicine I had to take a lot as a child ruined artificial grape flavoring for me forever.

Hearing Banana Phone for the first time in more than a decade unlocked a deeply tucked away memory

This was already a great video, but that rendition of banana phone made this a masterpiece.

Wow such a nice subject! I would have never thought about this subject for a video! It sounds like a simple subject at first and then of course it’s not at all 😅 Thanks for all the research, planning and presentation, loved the video ❤

Banana is my favorite favorite ice cream and laffy taffy flavor, that shit is the bomb!

i love these videos you do lol can you do one about apples and how theyve changed and been bred or whatever because that is ALSO veerrryyy interesting

i literally dont know what to make of this video (as usual) but it was amazing. not to mention the outro cover of banana phone, of course.

I really hope they don’t update the flavor, cause I love it 🥺. That’s why I love banana pudding and banana-flavored gum

My Dad was an expert in banana cultivation (now retired), and based on what I've picked up this video is very excellent!

Today I had dinner with my parents and that video was a topic that i brought to conversation, so my utmost thank you

You singing banana phone at the end just made my day

If you want a more in-depth look at the history of bananas and more specifically the United Fruit Company, Dan Koeppel wrote a book called Banana that goes into more detail

Afaik there actually is a disease/ fungus currently affecting Cavendish bananas that has the potential to cause extinction. I heard about it through twitter a couple years ago and it seems the claims are true. Really hope we somehow avoid that curveball. Bananas are weirdly important to my identity so I think I would actually be sad if they actually went extinct (or at least the kind I was brought up knowing).

god finally now i have smth to refer people to when they ask how i know the banana fact instead of trying to awkwardly deflect from the fact i found out through ao3

We need to get a petition together to have candy companies update their banana flavors

I adore banana-flavored candy, and regret that I haven't had a chance to taste a Gros Michel (they are still grown, just in small batches - not easy to get in the US). The takeaway here, for me, is that relying on a monoculture has potentially disastrous downsides. It happened with Gros Michel and Fusarium wilt in the first half of the 20th Century, and we are now experiencing a much-delayed Round 2 with a new, improved strain of that Fusarium species, Tropical Race 4, making its way through and killing off plantations of the formerly-resistant Cavendish cultivar that makes up most modern banana production. There is currently no real Plan C to replace Cavendish -- and even worse, TR4 also destroys plantains, which are a staple food in many parts of the world. It's looking likely that the solution will be genetically engineering resistance into both plantains and bananas, but that comes with its own issues. So yeah, the new epidemic is already underway, and has been since around 1989. This time around, it's going much more slowly due to better awareness of such things, but it's going, and it will have to be dealt with eventually.

That was a really good video! I appreciate all the research done. Bananas are one of my favorite foods and I am glad to know more about them. I also found this very entertaining.❤️🍌

i am CONStantly telling people about this i am so glad you made this

Totally off topic, but her makeup is so pretty and her skin tone goes so well with the colour yellow. I’m so jealous.

I’ve heard about this several times, but I still cannot understand why they haven’t bothered updating the taste. It’s an odd choice.

gabi making niche educational videos is my favorite genre

i looove ur videos on specific ass subjects that ive always kinda wondered abt

Banana laffy taffy slaps, def my favorite flavor lol

I love that only like 6% of the video is about banana flavoured candies 😂

These chapter titles are genius, they really reminded me of what the video’s about

Thanks for the deep dive... wasnt aware of this.

WHAT???? I always thought banana was S tier 😢

Thanks for revealing so much about banana history, I’m a sucker for bananas and now I know it’s the cavandish banana that I’m really into 😅 I hope South Americans got to reap the benefits of growing bananas for us in the end, this is definitely “fruits of their labor” 😢

Literally every video is on a completely different subject and every time I read the title and think "WHY HAVE I NEVER THOUGHT OF THIS BEFORE?!" Then I watch and love the video

We need a part 2 with a deeper dive into the Central American Banana Wars, Smedley Butler, and ultimately the infamous Business Plot!

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I already have a good idea of why banana candy sucks so much, but I'm still so excited to see someone talk about it.

Absolutely love these videos on weird obscure topics, there always so entertaining and interesting

Love the honest history take, thanks for the realness-and the fascinating journey

Cool story! I love that you sang Banana Phone at the end and yes, I totally sang along! 🤣

I personally love banana flavored laffy taffy 🤗💗

I love banana flavor. They're a lot easier to find internationally. I think import countries just don't know wtf other bananas taste like so when they have banana flavored candy they're like "wtf, this don't taste like any banana I've ever had? blegh"

Thanks for mentioning United Fruit Company, that period of time affected Guatemala so deeply. It's a part of guatemalan history that even here is very much forgotten.

I already know it's because bananas used to taste different back in the day before monoculture killed that variety but the candy flavor stuck around, but I'm going to watch this video anyway because I support Gabi.

Such a fruity video, thank you Gabi 😊

I love how there are bananas slowly appearing in the background

Banana is my FAVOURITE flavour. I'm always on the lookout for banana flavour. I remember eating banana flavour yogurt, loved it. Unfortunately, I only got to eat a handful of times because it was no more available.

Banana phone was the first video I ever watched on KZfaq, so I time traveled in more ways than one with this video

The bunch of bananas that moves throughout the video made me happy

Thanks for the timestamps, very helpful! :)

Watching this feels a bit like a fever dream and I love it

You really had me when you slandered banana laffy taffy. But your uncompromising minion puns and rendition of banana phone have saved you. For now

This subject is my go-to conversation starter when people talk about banana candy lol

I knew that the banana flavoring was based on a different type of banana compared to what we eat today but the story behind this is so fascinating! This was such a great video!

I read a book I found at the library about the banana and I’ve been telling people about the history of bananas ever since. I’m a blast at parties.

Runts were my fave halloween candy. The bananas were great! I need to find me some runts

Runts candy has a banana shaped candy in the box. They have always been my fave.

It's interesting that for something like Apples, there's such variety (Green, Fuji, Jonagold, McIntosh, Golden Delicious, Cosmic Crisp), while bananas are such a monoculture (Gros Michael in the past and Cavendish now).

The best part was when you sang banana phone at the end 🙂 Made my day!

I don’t eat alot of candy at all but banana laffy taffy is my alltime fav ever! It’s sold in every store here in maryland but runs out fast while grape and apple usually are in stock. I love banana flavor hehe

I HAVE RANTED ABOUR THIS SO MUCH THANK YOU