Gros Michel was the variety when I was a kid (this would be about 50 years ago) . . . (Reply #18)

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Sat Jul 24, 2021, 03:43 PM

hatrack (58,519 posts)

18. Gros Michel was the variety when I was a kid (this would be about 50 years ago) . . .

It became commercially extinct and was replaced by the Cavendish, which is the dominant commodity banana today.

It's on the way out as well:

https://www.npr.org/2011/08/30/139787380/bananas-the-uncertain-future-of-a-favorite-fruit

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31 replies	Author	Time	Post
Rubbery bananas. [View all]	LizBeth	Jul 2021	OP
Mistook it for a...	mbusby	Jul 2021	#1
Nope, a Dole banana. It is only recently I have been seeing it and not often but time enough.	LizBeth	Jul 2021	#2
Stop grocery shopping in the decorative fruit section of housewares?	Hugin	Jul 2021	#3
;)	LizBeth	Jul 2021	#8
I too am a bananaphile.	Hugin	Jul 2021	#10
Gros Michel was the variety when I was a kid (this would be about 50 years ago) . . .	hatrack	Jul 2021	#18
Bananaphile	KentuckyWoman	Jul 2021	#20
Bananavore	Hugin	Jul 2021	#27
We grow bananas and if picked green sometimes they just don't ripen enough.	LakeArenal	Jul 2021	#4
Perfectly yellow showing ripe but yes, inside is like unripe and that is the taste also.	LizBeth	Jul 2021	#7
Meh, green bananas are supposedly better for you.	CrackityJones75	Jul 2021	#13
I heard they both have different qualities and if I remember, I like what I got more with the	LizBeth	Jul 2021	#14
It's very hard to peel green bananas.	LakeArenal	Jul 2021	#26
I've noticed also	Tink41	Jul 2021	#5
+1	LizBeth	Jul 2021	#6
A couple of months ago I got a bad bunch	Ritabert	Jul 2021	#9
One of these is ripe	48656c6c6f20	Jul 2021	#11
#2	LizBeth	Jul 2021	#12
#2 is OK	48656c6c6f20	Jul 2021	#22
Wow, I would use the ugly black one for banana bread or pancakes.	LizBeth	Jul 2021	#23
Just A Guess	ProfessorGAC	Jul 2021	#15
Fascinating. Awesome. Thank you. I think you are on the right track.	LizBeth	Jul 2021	#17
Possible	ProfessorGAC	Jul 2021	#19
Are you sure you didn't accidentally purchase a decorative fake?	Crunchy Frog	Jul 2021	#16
It may be a plantain	obamanut2012	Jul 2021	#21
Not really related to your thread but...	yonder	Jul 2021	#24
They're all picked green for longer life while shipping, but sometimes there are ones so green...	Hekate	Jul 2021	#25
Oh, that is interesting about the apple.	LizBeth	Jul 2021	#28
The apple gives off ethylene oxide	Wicked Blue	Jul 2021	#29
Could they have accidentally been frozen?	rurallib	Jul 2021	#30
That could be and that would make sense. Thanks.	LizBeth	Jul 2021	#31

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