![]() ![]() The history of the banana business, however, has its sensational side, dabbling in assassination, revolution and the skulduggery of international finance. ![]() Boringly available all year, it looks and tastes standardised, and could almost be the result of mass production in a factory: since it duplicates itself through rhizomes rather than scattering seeds, it is, as Rich Cohen points out, always and everywhere the same, like Coca-Cola or Heinz baked beans. And then, having bared the pulpy prong, how can you consume it without blushing? In the early 20th century, only loose women dared to eat bananas in a public place. ![]() After you've unzipped one, what do you do with those sad, limp strips of skin? It is always banana peel that causes ludicrous falls, never apple cores or cherry stones. T he banana has to be the most absurd and obscene of fruits – though in fact it's not officially a fruit but a herbaceous plant. ![]()
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