But it was a frozen banana street food, not a literal supermarket banana. Feels like we might be within a decade of street food snacks costing $10!
This does not take into account the potential failure of Dole / Del Monte / Chiquita and Banana Republics revolting in the near future.
I think this the first time I’ve seen the term Banana Republic used this literally.
Well, just wait until you read this:
now set the graph to the music of yellow submarine
It’s a linear extrapolation that doesn’t take into account the not completely unreasonable chance that commercially viable banana varieties could go [functionally] extinct or that climate change will make it dramatically more expensive to grow them in sufficient quantities such that the price can stay on trend.
I mean, one variation has already had that happen to it… the “Fake” bananna flavoring just didn’t get changed when the bananna strain got changed.
Would inflation not act exponentially?