Ok I'm back, it's just ignorant assholes all the way down

That last one is just something that could've realistically existed.

…and would continue to exist, unaltered, well up until the 70s when, finally, it was modified due to growing public awareness; and only because of that.

Our prices are falling from our hot deals but fret not: the melting point of steel... 🤔

If our competition raises prices! .... We'll bring them down!!!!

I had never heard of that tactic. Thanks for sharing. I'll be looking for IRL examples now.

Nixon should have started a hobby in hydraulic engineering specializing in the design and production of water gates, specifically for the Potomac River, including one near that hotel/office/apartment complex that's name I forget.

They aren't extinct, they just aren't commercially viable to grow on large scales any more. A few isolated pockets of the trees survived the blight. A quick web search will turn up someone selling some if you really want to try them but like the other poster said if you've tried fake banana flavor you've tried gros michel.

if you've ever had banana laffy taffy you've had the artificially created flavor of one.

You can order them from Hawaii (or maybe you have to physically be there).

It's just no longer worth mass producing and shipping any more due to the potential to lose your entire crop.

You'd reminded me that I still wanted to try these, someday, and I went looking, again, for if there was an easier means (other than travelling to Hawaii); I found this place that delivers within the contiguous states: https://miamifruit.org/products/gros-michel-banana-box-order. If you had wanted to try one; more expensive, due to the fragility of the crop, but viable.