Sunday Express Skeleton 3Rd November
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I've just eaten a banana - well one bite of a banana. It tasted a bit 'woody' but apart from that nothing. Horrible. Bananas seem to be going that way more and more now but I've no idea why. I want my flavour back!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Food of the Devil and Lady J agrees with me - both of us are allergic to them - in my case, it would be hossie here I come and even the smell of them sends me running - that's the psychosomatic warning siren going off. The cause is an enzyme in the banana - whether it's genus-specific, I have no idea and I am not exactly going to test this.....
The skin on my latest bunch of 5, started to go black at one end and travel along further. I had to cut about a third off each one and eat what was left. I moved them from the fruit bowl into the fridge but it didn't make any difference. Odd.
Didn't I read something in the papers about a shortage occurring?
There has been a bit of a World wide panic on regarding Bananas. A Fungal disease was rampant all through last year leading to some claims that Bananas could become extinct. I think it may have been called Panama Disease that caused the plants to blacken and rot. Typing Bananas from Panama is a pain.
When I was a kid, we lived right next door to the Fyffes banana warehouse in Ancoats. The stench was horrible. It's now the site of Royal Mail on Oldham Road, just round the corner from Anita Street, which is used for lots of ads and TV scenes and is reckined to be one of the most photographed streets in the UK.
I so agree! I've noticed a big change in the texture and flavour of bananas in recent years.
The flesh of the banana is dryish and the soft "banana" taste has disappeared entirely.
I also noticed that for many years I have not seen the little blue sticker on a bunch of bananas that told us they were "Fyffes". I wonder if this is something to do with the change in taste.
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