[Diana in Wisconsin]

Article (which is rather long and explains more about bananas than anyone needs to know) continues at:

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,20967,1076199,00.html

[atomicpossum]

“A Banana,” says Juan Fernando Aguilar, “is not just a banana.”

How Freudian.

[PeterPrinciple]

the 1923 musical hit “Yes! We Have No Bananas” is said to have been written after songwriters Frank Silver and Irving Cohn were denied in an attempt to purchase their favorite fruit by a syntactically colorful, out-of-stock neighborhood grocer.)

Didn't know that. The only bananas I saw as a kid in the 60's were the black ones that mom made banana bread out of. didn't know you could eat a yellow banana.

[FormerACLUmember]

This article speaks to a greater tragedy: With the demise of the banana, how will the liberals sexually abuse our children by giving condom lessons to 7 year olds?

[RightWhale]

Haven't tried growing the Cavendish in Alaska yet. Tried corn, but it just isn't hot enough long enough to get much going there.

[js1138]

yes we have no evolution ping.

[jimtorr]

Okay, so if the cavendish variety of banana disappears, growers will ship in another variety and soon nobody will remember the cavendish.