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Can somebody post the TLDR version of this? I started reading with genuine interest but the author takes too long to get to the point. I am not even sure what t

• colechristensen 8y ago
  Gros Michel was the main banana variety that accounted for some very large proportion of commercial production several decades ago. Disease wiped out most of them and made it uneconomical to produce so everybody switched to Cavendish variety, and there's a disease for that one now too. Except people write this exact article about these two banana varieties about 10 times a year and it's just sensationalism. TL;DR your grandchildren might eat a different variety of banana you don't recognize. Move along