>Eat for sustenance and pleasure, not principle. I do remember a time when the Red Delicious and Cavendish seemed like the platonic ideals of apples and banana

>Eat for sustenance and pleasure, not principle. I do remember a time when the Red Delicious and Cavendish seemed like the platonic ideals of apples and bananas. But it wasn't some principle of form or color we struggled to maintain against physical reality. They were delicious and plentiful. Later quality dropped, and later still grocery stores finally expanded their offerings. Now you even find alternate bananas (other than plantains), like the delicious burro banana, which tend to have much better shelf life than the Cavendish, anyway.