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GOING BANANAS

he unsuspecting fruit taking the top spot for the world’s most popular is the banana. Well, actually it’s the tomato with bananas second, but I am a proud member of the ‘tomatoes are a vegetable’ tribe so they don’t count. They also strangely steal the top spot for the world’s tallest herb, making banana ‘tree’ a misnomer (because the stem is fleshy, not woody). On top of all that, the fruit is technically

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