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Re:Growing a mango tree from seed – one year time lapse [video] by hourislate on Saturday February 12, 2022 @12:14PM (#30314372)
>Go back a century and the idea of eating exotic fruits like these was the only available to the wealthiest.

My father told me he was 27 years old when he ate his first banana. This was in Canada in 1950.

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Re:Growing a mango tree from seed – one year time lapse [video] by gumby on Saturday February 12, 2022 @01:10PM (#30314842)
A few weeks after the fall of the Wall in Germany we were in the grocery store in western Niedersachsen (just a few km from the wall) and encountered a woman from the East. She asked my wife what the names of several fruits and vegetables were.

For a couple of months after the wall came down it was impossible to find bananas. Germans love bananas!

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