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Bashōnosei: Japanese ghostly banana trees (Musa basjoo), they usually appear as a human face amongst the broad, flat banana leaves. If any woman sees a handsome man underneath bashōnosei, it means she is about to become pregnant and later will give birth to children who will be demons. This legend originates from the Ryukyu Islands.
The variety was once the dominant export banana to Europe and North America, grown in Central America but, in the 1950s, Panama disease, a wilt caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense, wiped out vast tracts of Gros Michel plantations in Central America, though it is still grown on non-infected land throughout the region.
The word fruit appears in Hebrew as פְּרִי , pərî. As to which fruit may have been the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden, possibilities include an apple, grapes, a pomegranate, [6] a fig, [7] carob, [6] etrog or citron, [6] pear, quince, wheat, banana, coco de mer, and mushrooms.
3. Keebler Fudge Magic Middles. Neither the chocolate fudge cream inside a shortbread cookie nor versions with peanut butter or chocolate chip crusts survived.
A Samoan legend is that the mountain banana and the lowland banana fought. The mountain banana – the Fe'i banana – won. Filled with pride at its victory, the mountain banana raised its head high, whereas the defeated lowland banana never raised its head again. [3] (Fe'i bananas have an upright fruiting stem, whereas the fruiting stem droops ...
General Mills introduced this "fruit flavor frosted cereal + marshmallow bits" in 1974 with a werewolf mascot on the box. Quentin Tarantino sometimes plants this retired cereal as a prop in movies.
It is assumed that wild bananas were cooked and eaten, as farmers would not have developed the cultivated banana otherwise. Seeded Musa balbisiana fruit are called butuhan ('with seeds') in the Philippines, [7] and kluai tani (กล้วยตานี) in Thailand, [8] where its leaves are used for packaging and crafts. [9]
The New York City fruit vendor who sold an ordinary banana that was duct-taped to a gallery wall inside Sotheby’s and sold for a whopping $6.2 million was devastated to learn that he was made ...