Yes, we have no bananas for your banana breakfast.

[Mark Kohut]

David Thomson is a very subtle watcher of movie. he has published a memoir:
Try to Tell a Story, 2009. He was four, living in Streatham in London when the V-2s were coming down. He was given some comic books where most of the comics were American who were always slipping on banana peels.

p.34 "What's that?",  I wanted to know...

'That's a banana." said Grandma. and then she cried out to a world at war,"Heavens, he doesn't know what a banana is!" 'A banana', she bagan....well it's yellow with a skin that you peel. "And inside there's a sweet fruit. I used to slice it up in banan custard. You'd love it."

"Well, what happened to it?" I asked. 

"You may well ask," she said."the ships that carried bananas are now carrying guns and helmets and tins of Spam. The banana you see, grows in tropic parts."

The banana shortage continued during the postwar austerity and he remembers the day he went to the docks for the first postwar shipment of bananas in the early 50s.