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"Yes! We Have No Bananas" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes!_We_Have_No_Bananas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes!_We_Have_No_Bananas
by lioeters 7y ago
"Yes! We Have No Bananas"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes!_We_Have_No_Bananas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes!_We_Have_No_Bananas
- carapace 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana > This variety was once the dominant export banana to Europe and North America, grown in Central America, but in the 1950s, Panama disease, a wilt caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense, wiped out vast tracts of Gros Michel plantations in Central America, though it is still grown on non-infected land throughout the region. The song is from 1923, so likely no connection to the great banana blight, eh? Too bad, I thought so too.
- lioeters 7y agoI believe you're right, the song predates any widespread fungus issue with bananas. Would have been cool if the lyrics had been a satire / poke at the situation. I did find the following note about the song: > In 2008, The New York Times ran an op-ed, with the title "Yes, We Will have no Bananas", regarding the outcome of fungal diseases afflicting the Cavendish Banana https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/opinion/18koeppel.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/opinion/18koeppel.html So we weren't the first to make the pun/connection - great minds think alike? :) I deserved the downvotes though, I knew it when I posted the flippant comment.