You know, the destruction of the Cavendish banana as the default export banana crop is taking longer than I thought. I was looking forward to seeing a wide variety of different cultivars available, but nope, it’s still all Cavendish all the time, except sometimes a sad little pile of beaten-up red bananas or baby bananas.
Cavendish is the banana equivalent of the Red Delicious apple, which used to be ubiquitous. You can still find Red Delicious, but the supermarkets are packed with new cultivars, and every year new ones that I’ve never heard of come on the market. It’s awesome. Come on Panama disease race 4, get moving!