[Sca-cooks] more on bananas

[Chris Stanifer]

--- Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net> wrote:
> The April issue of "BBC History Magazine" has in
> their calender for
> April 10:
> "1633: The first bananas imported to England go on
> sale."


Quick question:  Are we all sure this was a banana
peel discovered in an English midden, and not a
plantain peel? The latter, IIRC, ripen much, much
slower than bananas.

Balthazar of Blackmoor

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