Why I didn’t buy Bananas…

I seen the monkey, cute little guy,, but i love bananas so i would not not buy them cause of a picture,, they use to have a girl in a hula skirt years ago on their sticker,, any one remember this...?

can't say I agree.... where did the grapes come from if it wasn't Chile? is someone pulling or trying to pull a fast one on you? and why?

why does it matter, you can chose to ignore the advertisement. its not like its forcing you to purchase a product.

Maybe the grapes were cheap because they just had an earthquake in Chile and they are desperate for $. They want you to buy their grapes and help them out, instead of competitors. Does that make any sense? Just a thought.

I seen the monkey, cute little guy,, but i love bananas so i would not not buy them cause of a picture,, they use to have a girl in a hula skirt years ago on their sticker,, any one remember this...?

I think her point is that the bananas were advertising something else entirely. The Chiquita banana girl was their own logo. I'm assuming she doesn't like the corporate, capitalist side of the whole thing, amirite?

On the flip side... my son saw AiAi from the Monkey Balls video game on the bananas and wanted me to buy them... WHY NOT? After 12 years of having my kid ask me to buy Fruit Loops, Cocoa Pebbles or some other cereal because there was a special toy related to a movie, a game or something else.... or begging me to go to Burger King or McDonalds so that he could get a toy in his happy meal relating to a movie or a game... I'll gladly buy him Bananas.

The funnier thing there is my husband is probably the one who is most excited about the new Monkey Ball video game - we had the old one for the Game Cube - now that we can use the balance board for the Wii... I'm thinking... Happy Father's Day!!!!

The grapes thing... I guess I don't see how not buying them is going to help... they'll just go bad and be thrown away... I'd rather eat them at a cheaper price, I guess.

I understand what your saying but I disagree, however I do not buy Chiquita bananas because the CEO of that particular company was linked to funding terrorist.....That is why I dont buy chiquita.

I didn't know that either :explode: I'll keep that in mind next time I am shopping for bananas. Grapes on the other hand, I am finding to be exorbiantly (sp??) expensive right now. I miss my grapes. :sad:

jewel

As for the price of the fruit - I think that it comes down to paying the actual price for the fruit... the price that takes into account the shipping, how many hands it has gone through, the season that we are in, ect... Like the price of bananas - here they are 78c/lb on average... Banana's and banana farmers are in trouble - banana's are being devoured by disease all over the world and farmers are losing half of their crops in some places (google it - i dont really know alot of details) - So why are we only paying 78c/lb for a fruit that is quite possibly going extinct?

ONLY paying 78c/lb?!?! the most i've ever paid for bananas is 60c/lb and that was because i went to a pricey grocery store. i consistently pay 38c/lb.

I think advertising on fruit could be a great thing -- maybe (HOPEFULLY) some of the money is going back to the farmers who work hard to grow our food. I mean -- advertising is everywhere else (most packaged food, bus benches, billboards, tv, MFP), and why not? I personally don't understand why you take issue with it. If ads were not everywhere, you'd have to pay a lot more to do things (like to use MFP & other websites or for the food itself).

I may agree about the cheap grapes. It makes me wonder if the store is taking the hit just to get more people through the door (I think this is likely the case...) or if the farmers/transporters are being undercompensated in order to get prices so low (in which case, I would not want to purchase the grapes).

I live in South America and I can easily see how grapes could be $1 per pound (even in the USA) especially if the store is subsidizing the price as someone else mentioned. In many of the countries around me, more than half the population lives off $1 per day. Yeah, you read that right. $1. Life is much different here, but the fruit is AMAZING and cheap!

I couldn't care less about what advertising is on my bananas- what matters is that I'm buying bananas and not chocolate bars.

I have no trouble tuning out the advertisements around me. Even if I didn't, I wouldn't have a problem with them. Advertising makes companies money. Companies who make money then create jobs, put food on families' tables, put money back into the economy. The big ol' wheel keeps on turning.

Besides, marketing like that is more driven towards children- and if my children are going to be marketed to (it's unavoidable) I'd rather a company be pushing nutritious food like bananas over, say, Happy Meals.

Well said!!!!

I love bananas and I love monkey ball. Win win. LOL

I kind of enjoy the obvious marketing of products in movies etc. They don't even try to be subtle anymore. It makes me laugh.

I've never heard of Monkey Ball, so I can't comment on that. As far as the advertising on fruit/veggies, who cares!!! I think it's great that the produce companies are marketing to children. If it gets kids to eat their fruits/veggies and not a Happy Meal, then so be it. I too, have become immune to all of the marketing and advertising that is everywhere in today's world. It's just something you have to ignore.

As far as prices for fruits/veggies, I do try to shop at farmer's markets if possible to support the local growers. However, even this can become expensive. I am disabled and live on a fixed income, so the food budget is very tight. If grapes are super cheap, I'll buy them. I do not have the luxury of caring where they came from or how they got here. If I have the money in the budget to splurge on grapes, then by all means, into the cart they go.

Not to sound mean, but in today's world and with the state of the economy, having an anti-capitalist mentality just isn't going to put food on the table or pay the bills. Just my opinion.