• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    And Panama Disease.

    The song “Yes, We Have No Bananas” was written because people thought bananas were going to be wiped out. Botanists were lucky enough to discover the Cavendish banana strain would survive where the former popular Gros Michel strain would not. I’m told Gros Michel taste far better.