On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Gautam John wrote: > Yes, We Will Have No Bananas > > By DAN KOEPPEL > Published: June 18, 2008 > > ONCE you become accustomed to gas at $4 a gallon, brace yourself for > the next shocking retail threshold: bananas reaching $1 a pound. At > that price, Americans may stop thinking of bananas as a cheap staple, > and then a strategy that has served the big banana companies for more > than a century — enabling them to turn an exotic, tropical fruit into > an everyday favorite — will begin to unravel. >
I think the article is a bit presumptuous to assume that its the end of the banana simply because a variety of banana eaten by americans is dying out because of the botanical equivalent of incest. i have never eaten or seen this 'cavendish'.
