Historyspeaking topic
The banana we eat today is not the variety people ate fifty years ago; the tastier original was nearly wiped out by a plant disease, and we now eat its understudy. If the artificial 'banana flavor' in candy actually imitates a fruit that no longer exists, does that mean our sense of taste has stayed loyal to a ghost?
— The Gros Michel banana and Panama disease
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