""I’ve Never Seen a Straight Banana" is a novelty song from 1926, written by Ted Waite."
About the same time a blight was wiping out the bananas that were eaten at the time (mentioned in several songs – the most famous being “Yes, We Have No Bananas”). Those bananas are close to extinct. There was some reluctance to accept the hardy hybrid now found in the grocery stores because the people who remembered bananas before the blight said ours have little flavor.
""I’ve Never Seen a Straight Banana" is a novelty song from 1926, written by Ted Waite."
About the same time a blight was wiping out the bananas that were eaten at the time (mentioned in several songs – the most famous being “Yes, We Have No Bananas”). Those bananas are close to extinct. There was some reluctance to accept the hardy hybrid now found in the grocery stores because the people who remembered bananas before the blight said ours have little flavor.