On P's GR bananas.....This is Helen Rosner of the New Yorker below

[Mark Thibodeau]

The problem is, the Gros Michel tastes so much better as a candy than
the Cavendish!

YOPJ

On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 6:41 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sincerely still not over the fact that “fake banana flavor” is actually
> based on a type of banana everyone used to eat but it got wiped out in the
> 1960s. And for FIFTY YEARS we as a society are like nah it’s cool we don’t
> need to update the fake flavor to match the new bananas???
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> And this is where the 'slippery banana' notion was born, not as true with
> the current strain.
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> Also apparently A LOT of you learned the banana flavor fact from a Captain
> America fanfic and I just adore you
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