[Sca-cooks] bananas

[Elaine Koogler]

Where in PNG did she live?  I lived just outside Madang on a coconut plantation,
right on Astrolabe Bay.  I was there in the late 70's for about a year.  I loved
it...except for the monster mosquitoes and the humidity.  The flowers and fresh
fruit were to die for!!!

Kiri

Christina van Tets wrote:

> Hello the List!
>
> Someone (sorry, I didn't check the message header) sounded sceptical about
> bananas taking a long time to ripen/go off when attached to the stem:
>
> My mother, when living in Papua New Guinea in the late 50s (tiny island, no
> electricity, no nothing) used to get a stem of bananas once every few weeks
> and hang it up in a shed (dark and away from flying foxes).  She would cut a
> hand off at a time to bring indoors and she says they used to last a very
> long time still attached to the stem.  I can ask for more details if you
> want, but I don't think the shop-window story is unlikely at all.
>
> Cairistiona
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