Re: [OT] Bananas

From: Judson McClendon (judmc_at_sunvaley0.com)
Date: 12/24/03 

Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 13:43:02 GMT

"JerryMouse" <nospam@bisusa.com> wrote:
> Why is it that a banana spends a week on the back of a burro from where it
> was harvested to a port, then a week or two in a warehouse, then a week or a
> month on a boat, then a week in a wholesalers and a week at the grocery
> store and then turns to banana-mush three days after you get it home?
>
> There is either a VERY sophisticated just-in-time harvesting program at Dole
> or something in the air at my house.

I read only recently that fruit in general was picked 'green', then 'ripened'
rapidly just before delivery by exposing it to a common gas, though I forget
which one. Maybe methane? 

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