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wrote on 09/13/04 5:08 PM:

> I have a question about banana's.
>
> We buy and eat a lot of bananas around here. And lately I have noticed
> something different about them some of the time.
>
> We buy them and they look fine, they are slightly green as normal up by the
> stem and usually the ripen and get the normal speckles.
>
> Lately I have noticed this.
> They do not ripen as the usual, they become a greyish and blackish color by
> the stem and then down. Where this starts by the stem the banana becomes very
> mushy.
> I have not seen a banana do this before, turning this color like this. Going
> from nice and yellow to this.
> The usual is always the yellow to the speckles to the to ripe.
>
> Any thoughts. This is just something I have recently noticed. And it doesnt
> matter if they are organic or not.
> They are kept on the counter.
>
> Thank you
> Craig

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