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Bananas!
It's one of those things we take for granted: you go to any supermarket or convenience store, there'll be bananas there for sale. This article in Popular Science goes into the recent history of the fruit, and how botanists are trying to stave off what could be a repeat of a devastating fungal infection which destroyed the most common variety of banana used prior to the 1920s, and a new variation of which can infect the banana that we use today.