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Quoting Betty Mayfield <bmayfield@opusnet.com>:

> Jim,
>
> It isn't only about plums that stores have trained their customers
> poorly. Nowdays most banana bins are full of half green fruit. It
> used to be that the mark of a good banana was a yellow skin with tiny
> black dots indicating full development of sugar.
>
> What made me laugh one day was a man shopping with a 9 or 10-year-old
> girl - probably his granddaughter. He picked up a cluster of bananas
> that were yellow with a tiny bit of green around the necks. She took
> them from him and replaced them with an all-green cluster. Obviously
> there was a generation in between that was brainwashing her into
> buying green bananas.
>
> Betty Mayfield
> northwest Oregon

My daughter and I had this very conversation not so long ago when  
choosing bananas.

.....Alan.



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