Banana's have been somewhat of a luxury item in many households in Australia this year. With the Queensland floods, and cyclones banana crops suffered and prices for bananas went through the roof, with $15 or more per kilogram not unheard of. I even saw them at $19.99 a kilogram at several places. As much as I felt for the poor farmers who lost their crop I just couldn't purchase bananas at that price. I also wondered whether there was a bit of profiteering going on, because while the high price of bananas would lead you to assume they were rare, I also noticed that I never failed to see them for sale at supermarkets or grocers.

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