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[Wyrd of Gawd]

Bananas are an English fruit.

Yes, of course. The original wild bananas grew everywhere in England but only the Anglo Saxons thought of cultivating them. The county of Kent is very famous for its many banana plantations.

Banana history: http://cwh.ucsc.edu/bananas/Site/Modern%...anana.html
"In the 1820s and 1830s, British botanists in the United Kingdom’s overseas colonies became fascinated with the banana plant and fruit. Englishman Charles Telfair, enamored with the bananas he encountered on his journeys around the Indian Ocean and China, began a collection of plantain plants on the island Mauritius. In 1829, he shipped a couple of banana plants to an acquaintance in England, where they eventually passed into the hands of the 7th Duke of Devonshire, William Cavendish, upon his acquaintance’s passing. Cavendish was able to cultivate the plants, and the Cavendish banana was formally recognized as a cultivar in 1836. From England, the cultivar was subsequently diffused back into the tropical zones, including, with the help of such missionaries as John Williams, introductions into previously unknown environments, such as islands of the South Pacific. In 1855, the Cavendish banana spread from Tahiti into Hawaii, Australia, and Papua New Guinea. "

The best banana I ever had was a small variety in Thailand. Absolutely wonderful.