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 18 hours ago
Only heard about those via my dad, never got to try one…
tomenzgg@midwest.social 8 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 13 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 15 hours ago
if you’ve ever had banana laffy taffy you’ve had the artificially created flavor of one.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
or banana jelly beans.