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 21 hours ago
Rebound from a viral pandemic, RIP Gros Michel
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Only heard about those via my dad, never got to try one…
tomenzgg@midwest.social 11 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.
teft@piefed.social 16 hours 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.
CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
if you’ve ever had banana laffy taffy you’ve had the artificially created flavor of one.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
or banana jelly beans.