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You love what I've heard is the taste of the Gros Michel, a banana that was lost to diseases years ago.
They still exist but they aren't bred at scale anymore.
A lot of the suitable land for the banana is contaminated with the fungus that causes Panama Disease so they can only be planted on land without it.
A decade ago, a new strain of the fungus that infects Cavendish was detected. There isn't any real replacement or treatment for it yet, meaning there is a high chance that all edible bananas will go extinct.
It's actually not extinct like a lot of people say though, just extremely difficult to find.