I was born in 1977, and the fungi that destroyed most of Gros Michel seem to happen in 1950ies. But I can say for sure that bananas in my childhood were much tastier than now. Maybe because there are much more sorts of bananas except GM and Cavendish, or maybe GM was still sold and I was lucky to try it. Modern bananas are outright bland to me.

That’s the point of the OP of the thread. I’ve read though, that Gros Michel is stll grown in small farms, just not at scale.

Gros Michel was tastier than modern Cavendish anyway.

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