On 22/1/2016 02:57 Brooklyn1 wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 06:05:18 -0800 (PST), Helpful person
> > wrote:
>
>>On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 4:12:01 PM UTC-5, Travis McGee wrote:
>>> http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydis...119-story.html
>>>
>>> Thirty minutes into the market last Wednesday, customers had plundered
>>> Sheaffer's supply of tree-ripened, canary yellow bananas, leaving behind
>>> boxes of unripe green clusters, called hands, for latecomers.
>>>
>>Bananas seem to fair very well being picked green. I've never had a tree ripened one. Is there a big difference?
>
> Bananas are never harvested ripe because the stalk ripens
> progressively, and ripe bananas are too delicate to transport, plus
> when left to plantation ripen the tropics critters will eat them all,
> it's also very dangerous to harvest ripened bananas, the stalks and
> leaves hide poisonous snakes waiting to sieze banana loving
> critters... bananas don't grow on trees, they grow on the world's
> largest herbaceous plants.

And then there's the banana spider:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ5lgCKt5YQ

--
Bruce