They aren’t extinct, just not commercially viable. A few isolated pockets of the trees survived the blight. A quick web search will turn up someone selling some if you really want to try them but like the other poster said if you’ve tried fake banana flavor you’ve tried gros michel.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Rebound from a viral pandemic, RIP Gros Michel
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Only heard about those via my dad, never got to try one…
teft@piefed.social 1 day ago
They aren’t extinct, just not commercially viable. A few isolated pockets of the trees survived the blight. A quick web search will turn up someone selling some if you really want to try them but like the other poster said if you’ve tried fake banana flavor you’ve tried gros michel.
tomenzgg@midwest.social 23 hours ago
You can order them from Hawaii (or maybe you have to physically be there).
It’s just no longer worth mass producing and shipping any more due to the potential to lose your entire crop.
CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 1 day ago
if you’ve ever had banana laffy taffy you’ve had the artificially created flavor of one.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
or banana jelly beans.