| The LA Times reports that the world's banana population could be wiped out in the next 10 years by a crippling fungi advancing through tropical soils.
"A banana-free world is unimaginable," the editorial says. "No banana splits or banana cream pies. No banana bread. No comedic pratfalls. What first food would babies spit up? With banana extinction, what would 'going bananas' and 'top banana' mean? Would 'banana republic' then mean an extinct tropical dictatorship? And what could school lunch traders offer to replace the trusty banana in those clandestine Twinkie deals?"
All very important questions, indeed. | |
