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[rob hamilton <lostman_amiga@yahoo.com>]

Thanx for the info!

I guess it is not good to rush judgment on these
things. Time to start exploring other varieties.

Robert

--- Tom Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Here is a balanced story on the banana problem;
> 
> http://www.sciencenews.org/20030308/food.asp
> 
>           "In the meantime, Ploetz advocates that
> banana
>           consumers get a little adventurous. U.S.
> markets,
>           particularly those with Hispanic
> customers, now often carry
>           several snack and cooking varieties.
> "There are all these
>           other bananas out there—they taste great.
> You should try
>           some," he says.
> 
>           Hamill lists some of the promising ones
> she's seen: a
>           small, sweet one called Goldfingers; the
> Red Decca, which
>           has creamy insides and a red skin; and one
> called Pacific
>           Plantain, which grows to about twice the
> size of a typical
>           supermarket banana.
> 
>           Is she worried about extinction of the
> banana? "Not really," she says.
>           Banana breeding certainly is difficult,
> but she has 400 varieties of the plant
>           in test tubes. What she sees in 10 or 20
> years, she says, is not extinction
>           at all, but "more diversity."
> 
> Happy eating and exploring!
> 
> Later,
> Tom
> 
> "Robert H." wrote:
> 
> > I heard about this somewhere about a year ago, I
> am surprized that
> > this has not gotten more attention in the news.
> Could anyone imagine
> > if bannas disappeard from store shelves?
> >
> > ---
> 
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