I bought bananas at the grocery store yesterday, lovely firm yellow bananas. Certified by my pals at Dole, these bananas were picture-perfect, not a blemish in site.
I opened one of these ad-worthy fruits, and found concealed damage in the form of disgusting black bruises. How can this be? I wondered. I inspected these bananas and they were flawless. Yet there was no mistake, the dreaded bruise was there and the fate of the banana sealed: in the trash it went.
Before tossing the banana skin, I took a second look to see if there was any evidence of the concealed damage---but NO. I opened a second banana and found the same mysterious bruising, with no mark on the outer yellow casing. What the hell??!!
Have the banana people now developed some mutant fruit, with peel made of impervious space titantium? Or maybe the farmers have 'overbred' banana stock to the point where only the outer appearance counts, inner mush be damned. If so, then the banana now joins the apple in the "misleading package" produce category: you can't pick a good one on sight and expect it to taste decent anymore. The common man, unable to make a proper fruit selection from the produce offerings, will no doubt fall to scurvy.
Dammit.