We want a Gros Michel banana

The "Greatest Generation" really did have it better....

This has happened before. Our great-grandparents grew up eating NOT the Cavendish but the Gros Michel banana, a variety that everyone agreed was tastier. But starting in the early 1900s, banana plantations were invaded by a fungus called Panama disease and vanished one by one. Forest would be cleared for new banana fields, and healthy fruit would grow there for a while, but eventually succumb.