Yes, we have no bananas for your banana breakfast.

[Dave Monroe]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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 banana 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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQV8-PmCwAQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-QkMaCS7CU

And, of course ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTTrXAE7OPU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT6JkceQ9FU