Facts You Probably Didn't Know About Bananas

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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Oh that is so funny. We had a man that sold fruit like that. One day some kids stole bananas from the back of his wagon and he called the local cop.

The cop came over eating a banana.
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The other day I was in the local Goodwill and I picked up an EAPG banana stand similar to this one.

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When bananas were first introduced in America people liked to put them on display so visitors would know how prosperous and up to date they were. The trend continued up into the early 1900's and many, many patterns were made. I think today most people use them to hold the mail and bills that need to be paid, times change. Here are a couple more examples.

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Ha! I remember the day, back around 1993 or 94, when I worked at a detention center(jail) in Rancho Cucamonga, Ca. Came into work, the kitchen/wherehouse loading dock was stacked up with boxes of bananas, "donated" (gotten rid of) to the facility because they were over ripe, and the customer wouldn't accept them from the trucker.

40,000 pounds of really ripe bananas. Banana slim all up and down the hallways, as they distributed them all over the detention center. Bananas for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Employees were 'encouraged' to take home a couple of cases of bananas, of course you had to sign for them.

I took 2 cases home, put them in the spare freezer in the garage.

Several months later, I put them in the trash....
 
Fact: You can run into bananas in many strange places.

A supporter (yes, a supporter) tosses John Kennedy some bananas during his 1960 campaign. Don't know the city.

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Banana: A Fruit that Really should not Exist:confused:

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"And yet here we have the humble banana, which is also the only food in existence that contains exactly the correct requirements of vitamins and minerals for mans metabolism completely. It is the only food that man can live on healthily, by itself, with complete nutrition, it is found all over the world and yet we have no knowledge of how it could possibly have come into being. It seems highly improbable that the worldwide distribution of a seedless fruit that is perfectly tailored for sustaining man would have just somehow ‘happened.’

"It is extremely unlikely for such a plant to have ever been produced by nature all on its own and many people believe that somehow, somewhere, sometime, someone in our far distant past genetically engineered bananas into the widely dispersed and remarkably nutritious plant that we find everywhere in such abundance to day".

"These people cite that bananas are living daily proof of an ancient culture that spanned the entire globe in remote pre-history. Botanists also now tentatively agree that the spread of the banana plant appears to have radiated outward from the Pacific region".

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