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Thanks! In case anyone else is interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana#Early_popularity_and_decline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Mich

Thanks! In case anyone else is interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana#Early_popularity_and_decline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana#Early_popul... So I should have written: that you can no longer buy in the supermarket down the street :)

permo-w 4y ago
TLDR: it was made economically unsustainable to grow because of something called Panama Disease, which Gros Michel is susceptible to, where modern bananas are not