# Is the Banana Doomed?

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**Created:** [May 31, 2009, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-banana-doomed/498258 "2009-05-31T13:36:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-banana-doomed/498258/22 "2009-06-01T16:10:44Z")

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The article I initially read on this took the view that the Cavendish had been an inferior substitute, taste-wise, for the Gros Michel. Any way they could bring back some disease resistant version of the Gros Michel, sort of like re-planting elms after Dutch Elm Disease?

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