Facts You Probably Didn't Know About Bananas

Meanderer

Meanderer

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Very interesting, Thanks!

Did you know that bananas were formally introduced in America at the 1876 Centennial in Philadelphia as part of a huge display of tropical plants.

I remember when I was a kid my grandmother would always be on the lookout for gas stations in small towns selling bananas at very low prices. I'm not sure why gas stations were in the banana business or why they stopped.
 
That is also interesting, Bea, It seems like some things stay the same, after all. You see, the local "Get-Go" Gas station in our area still sells bananas inside for the people on the go, along with every other thing (HA!). Maybe this exotic treat attracted customers? They sell for 2 for a dollar. today! Maybe they are "Top Bananas"!:) Come to think about it, they are organic!
 

Aunt Bea said:
...I remember when I was a kid my grandmother would always be on the lookout for gas stations in small towns selling bananas at very low prices. I'm not sure why gas stations were in the banana business or why they stopped.
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Back in the early Fifties, in the little town in WV where my grandmother lived, I remember she and I walking to the post office one day and meeting a man in a horse drawn wagon selling fruit and vegetables, very much like this one.

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I'm sure he had bananas, I was too short to see inside, but they were probably too expensive for her to buy anyway.

(I guess this didn't have that much to do with bananas, did it? Sorry:()
 
NancyNGA said:
Back in the early Fifties, in the little town in WV where my grandmother lived, I remember she and I walking to the post office one day and meeting a man in a horse drawn wagon selling fruit and vegetables, very much like this one.

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I'm sure he had bananas, I was too short to see inside, but they were probably too expensive for her to buy anyway.

(I guess this didn't have that much to do with bananas, did it? Sorry:()
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Great memory!

When I was a kid we used to rent a camp and every day a vegetable man would drive into the camp grounds and sell produce to the campers, he had an old truck with the scales swinging and old bells on a leather strap jingling.

You are right these memories don't have much to do with bananas so how about the Banana Man!!!

 
Aunt Bea said:
It's amazing, also a little sad, to think of all the hard work that goes into bringing banana's to my local market and still being able to buy them for forty nine cents a pound.
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Yes, it really is. I don't know how they do it. Any kind of fresh produce, actually, even stuff grown in the US, it's impressive.
 
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