An orange is better than a banana

I hope he keeps it up. As usual, I will deal with my opponent's claims first and then continue to state my case. Why oranges (still) fail: 1) The Ancient Chinese believed oranges could heal the cold Yes. The Ancient Chinese also believed mercury made you immortal. Their culture was filled with crazy superstition. I admit oranges can help reduce the effects of the common cold, but then so can your immune system, making eating those oranges completely unnecessary. Related to this point is my opponent's assertion that most people do not eat two oranges a day. This is because more than one is dangerous. Oranges are therefore, unlike bananas, a dangerous fruit. 2) My opponent did not debate orange facts Spot on again. It follows logically from the above statement that since I did debate something and it wasn't fact, I must have debated fiction. Which is true - I argued against you where you did not tell the truth (which was almost all the time). My opponent says that because of this, he will "not refute. .. the facts about bananas. " True to his word, he rebuts almost none of my stuff about bananas. Therefore everything else I said about bananas is fact. 3) Orange peels are safe to litter Yes. So are banana peels, by the way. Just to reiterate, I don't think I made it clear enough : orange peels will only repel slugs if the slugs can find no way between the peel and the garden. Just one peel haphazardly thrown on a flower bed will both make the flower bed look ugly and not keep away all that many slugs. Banana peels also make better fertilizer because they have a higher fiber content, so they are better in this respect too. 4) Let's chop the orange trees in the middle east! Great idea! That will seriously drive up the price of oranges, by the way, removing their menace from the affordability of the common man. 5) Radioactivity kills You get more radioactivity by flying in an aircraft. The earth itself is radioactive. Our bodies are designed to handle radiation. The tale of people gaining superpowers is only a tale AS YET. My evidence that superpowers stem directly from bananas are here, no such evidence for oranges: . http://api.ning.com...*us8uioQ6ptv-TBzD2hPpLvjaK8BNezNX63HPTBW3JzKh7qTqmvtjcuhghtDt361clNd0kbKv7*Caj/SupermanBanana.jpg On a somewhat related note, thanks in part to my banana-eating, I can in fact do somersaults while flying (on an aircraft) and pick up (model) trains with one finger. 6) Oranges are rare for their citrus acid content So do lemons. Bananas are just as much a collector's item for being the only smile-shaped fruit. 7) Oranges are full of vitamins, fiber etc. .. My opponent lists (or rather, plagiarizes from the internet) dozens of chemicals that make up oranges. Almost all of them are in bananas too. Rather than give a list of chemicals to attempt to sound smart, I will concentrate on the health benefits of bananas. At a glance, bananas give you all the same benefits you just told me oranges do, usually even utilizing the same ingredients. However, they come without all the nasty health issues of oranges I identified in the last round. Over and above these many benefits, these wonder-fruits will also fight cancer (risk of kidney cancer is reduced by 40% by eating two and a half bananas per day) and kidney stones, lower your chances of contracting certain eye diseases by a third, reduce depression, strengthen bones, help people quit smoking, reduce nerves - and perhaps best of all, if my grandfather had only included bananas in his diet, he would have had a 40% lower chance of getting a stroke. [1] Do oranges do that? No. All we have is some dodgy scientists saying that they contain some chemicals. It's no coincidence that most of them are the same chemicals contained in a humble banana. Related to this point, I'd like to hear a response to my analysis as to why oranges are bad for you. My mother used to pay thousands in dentist bills, but after giving up her daily glass of orange juice she hasn't seen him since. This is a preventable affliction. We need to spread the word. Finally my opponent gave some orange facts that have no bearing on this debate. Tellingly, he has no responses to my analysis that bananas are there for all countries, that bananas can be enjoyed in more ways than oranges (so they never get boring) and that the banana plant has a multitude of other uses. More reasons to love bananas: 1) Smart people eat them Bananas are proven to boost brain power if eaten once with every meal [2]. If we all ate more bananas we'd be stronger AND smarter. Like Alexander the Great, who fueled up for his Indian campaign by eating bananas. 2) Bananas hate your enemies too Believe it or not, bananas are much more your pals than anybody else. Not only do they keep you fit strong and smart . .. if somebody is annoying you, simply throw your banana peel on the ground and wait for them to slip over it. It's worked for the movies since 1910, the year in which bananas made their grand film debut. They beat the oranges by several years, by the way. Back to the point, in 2001 bananas hurt 300 people in this way. All of them were ignorant of the banana's mighty power. [3] 3) The Gods favor bananas The Tamils hold bananas in the highest reverence and use them in all their major religious festivals. If you're anti-bananas, you must be anti-Tamil and therefore a racist bastard. You're not a racist bastard now, are you? Interestingly, the prophet Muhammad of the Islamic faith is also likely to have sampled the divine-tasting fruit of bananas. Sources indicate his mouth probably watered at the mere sight. Jesus and Abraham didn't know about bananas, but after they went to the afterlife I'm pretty sure they wished they had. 4) Bananas have been by our side for as long as anyone can remember The first bananas were domesticated about 10,000 years ago. Oranges are relative newcomers, being first domesticated only 4,500 years ago. 5) Bananas are tasty That's why they're America's #1 selling fruit. They fly off the shelves so fast that they leave the oranges in the dust. Wake up. It's time to recognize that not all fruits are made equal. In this case oranges are clearly the inferior fruit. Sources [1] - . http://bananasweb.com... [2] - . http://www.lifescript.com... [3] - . http://bananasaver.com...