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Originally Posted by Richard
Yes, 3 weeks is a very long time for bananas, unless they are picked unripe and then gassed at your end. Of course, this defeats the entire purpose of getting a great tasting banana. Specialty bananas are being grown on a small commercial scale in southern France, western Morocco, Israel, and possibly elsewhere near you but that is the extent of my knowledge.
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Of course they are ripened at their overseas destination, is there anything unusual about that?
Currently most nor all bananas at European retailers are from Central America and I wonder if someone from e.g. India, which is the largest banana producer in the world, wanted to tap into that market.