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.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Only heard about those via my dad, never got to try one…
teft@piefed.social 2 months 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.
DakRalter@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
That’s a myth about the flavour. Although TIL they do smell strongly like artificial banana flavour.
CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 2 months ago
if you’ve ever had banana laffy taffy you’ve had the artificially created flavor of one.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
or banana jelly beans.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 months ago
And I find it preferable to the real thing
tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 months 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.