Edited by author 07-22-2003 01:22 PM
I lived in Bangladesh for a year and was introduced to literally dozens of different banana varieties. One tasted more like pinapple, one, the Iticala, a favorite in Chittagong had seed pits the size of peanut M&Ms. Personally as much as I consume the standard banana served in the US, it always makes me uncomfortable guessing the effect such extreme mono-cropping have on the Central American lands they are produced on. (And I won't even go into the chemical/pesticide/fertilizer devistation caused by the non-organic growers....oooops too late ;)