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Plantains and green bananas are deceptively similar, with special emphasize on the word “deceptively”. I tell you why?
Eons ago on a bright summer day, me and my roommate decided to venture into our local vegetable market, both of us in our late teens, and it was very first time we actually went to the market all by ourselves to buy anything, without the guidance of our parents. Well, they said “do it right the first time” and so when we spotted an old lady selling huge clump of green bananas, we immediately asked for the price and as a pro shopper we even bargain over the price, just the way we observed our parents doing it so many times while buying anything from the market. The simple rule was to never pay the same amount as…
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