tert in seattle > writes:

> when I was a kid living in upper MI I would eat apples picked from trees
> growing on public land, and the apples sometimes tasted a little like
> bananas

There's an antique apple variety called "winter banana". I've had wine
made from it, but not the apple itself. (Nashoba Valley Winery, MA).
The wine, at least, didn't taste to me lof banana at all, so this may be
totally unrelated.
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