The other day I went to the little fruit stand in the lobby of my office and I noticed that they had, what appeared to be, very large bananas. They were so large in fact, that I thought they might have been plantains. So I kindly asked the Mexican woman behind the counter, "Are those bananas?"
She looked at me as if I was the absolute dumbest person she had ever seen in her entire life. I then realized that she didn't know enough English for me to effectively talk my way out of the situation. So I just smiled like an idiot and went on my way… without purchasing a banana.Now I'm a well educated guy and I know my fruit. When I'm in the supermarket, I'm great at identifying fruit. But to that elderly foreign woman, I was nothing more than a blithering dolt. No matter what I do or say from this day forth, in her eyes I will forever be the grown man who wasn't sure if the yellow banana shaped fruit... was a banana.
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It wasn't a plantain?
There are many species of bananas. The ones we are accustomed to is called the "canendish" which may be on its way out due to some type of disease. Supposedly there are plenty more.
I might be just as shocked at seing a jumbo banana.
I must be dumb too because I thought the plantain variety was on the smaller side. What do I know? I've never actually bought them.
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