I live in a land of great fresh water lakes, a paradise that will thrive in global warming, southern Ontario, Canada. Sadly I've never been to the tropics, never seen an actual banana tree😞 It's on the list.
Grocery store fruit is the saddest fruit of all, it has the shape and color, but the texture, the juice, always lacking. Watermelons filled with white flesh and water, tomatoes without a zest. I find it most amazing that through homogenization of certain strains we can cause an extinction in the world of fruit. Have you ever seen a banana tree?