Too lazy to google this to confirm...regardles - "And now for something completely different" Remember reading about several deaths in England shortly after WWII, blamed on bananas... With the War shortages, bananas weren't exactly a dime-a-dozen over in London. With the War ending - they come flooding back into the market. Many children had never eaten bananas before, and as a result, did what children would do when they were suddenly exposed to a 'healthy' fruit that tasted good and unlike anything tasted before... Apparently, some were eating them peel and all - having never had them before, and not realising they should be peeled first. Potassium overdose was blamed for the deaths - though as is clear, I reckon you'd have to eat plenty at once, and in this case, the bananas were probably being introduced into a body that had a shortage to begin with... The possibility also exists that the peels might contain more potassium than the actual fruit(??), which might have compounded the issue... Kind of a sad story, in a way?
