stackyFACTSThat intensely fake chemical flavor tastes weird purely because the original fruit was essentially wiped out by a vicious fungus. The synthetic compound mimics the Gros Michel variety, which dominated the globe until the nineteen fifties, leaving us stuck with the blander Cavendish variety we eat today.
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