This actually happened in the 1950s with a type of banana known as the Gros Michel (often known as Big Mike). The song, "Yes! We Have No Bananas," is said to have been inspired by a shortage of ...

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They were earmaked for under-18-year-olds, as a special austerity-era treat, as children tended to be the most excited about bananas. A popular wartime song, by the bandleader Harry Roy ...