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RE: Pdc3000 #4
No but the most common one, which is the tastiest and found in the grocery store are suffering a serious blight. It actually has happened before, apparently there was an even better strain of bananas that has already gone extinct 50 years ago that was even tastier. Was a fascinating article I read about it, I should dig it up.
Yes the extinct one was called cavendish. The least tasty one is the one in grocery stores!! Tastes like nothing compared to so many others. Do you live in a tropical area?
I live in a land of great fresh water lakes, a paradise that will thrive in global warming, southern Ontario, Canada. Sadly I've never been to the tropics, never seen an actual banana tree😞 It's on the list.
Grocery store fruit is the saddest fruit of all, it has the shape and color, but the texture, the juice, always lacking. Watermelons filled with white flesh and water, tomatoes without a zest. I find it most amazing that through homogenization of certain strains we can cause an extinction in the world of fruit. Have you ever seen a banana tree?