The following stream of emails have been sent around this week in an effort to maintain conact with the Land of Aus and has provoked much food for thought!

So wherever you are in the world, on behalf of all the Australians, I hope you are enjoying your Bananas!:)


I love bananas and one of the joys of living in Hong Kong is the fact that bananas (and fruit in general) are so cheap and so good.

Well think on this, bananas in Australia have just hit $3.65 EACH that's around $20 Hong Kong for which you could buy about 30 or more bananas here.

A jewellery store in Australia is now giving away a free banana with every ring sold!

The reason given is the cyclone damage done to the Banana crop this year, although there is also a view that some profiteering is going on and it is an excuse. Be that as it may, Enjoy your bananas



Yes, we have no Banana’s
Folk Song written By: Frank Silver and Irving Cohn (1923)
There's a fruit store on our street
It's run by a Greek.
And he keeps good things to eat
But you should hear him speak!

When you ask him anything, he never answers "no".
He just "yes"es you to death,
And as he takes your dough, he tells you...

"Yes! We have no bananas
We have no bananas today!!
We have string beans and onions, cabBAges and scallions
And all kinds of fruit and say
We have an old fashioned toMAHto
A Long Island poTAHto, but

Yes! We have no bananas
We have no bananas today!"

Business got so good for him that he wrote home today,
"Send me Pete and Nick and Jim; I need help right away."
When he got them in the store, there was fun, you bet.
Someone asked for "sparrow grass"
and then the whole quartet
All answered:

"Yes, we have no bananas
We have-a no bananas today.
Just try those coconuts
Those wall-nuts and doughnuts
There ain't many nuts like they.
We'll sell you two kinds of red herring,
Dark brown, and ball-bearing.
But yes, we have no bananas
We have no bananas today."

hi,
all this panic about bananas makes that old song bananas in pyjamas all the more `meaningful` {?} the village where i used to live is overgrown with those huge triangle shaped `Chinese bananas` - in fact all the time I was there I’d be given more than a family of 3 could reasonably be expected to eat; daily! maybe we should do some business{?} no but really it does seem a bit odd that wild bananas are doing so well but not cultivated ones.