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Originally posted by 700guns
Which kind? 
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Well, up until the 1950s people ate Gros Michel bananas. Unfortunately, the Gros Michel was virtually wiped out by a sudden worldwide blight...
Today we eat Cavendish bananas, which taste different from the bananas people would have been eating in earlier times. But the Cavendish is also under attack from disease and will probably disappear from the market during our lifetimes.