Snippets can refer to little flashes of memories and I've had two of those today. My west coast brother caused it by telling me that today is "Day of the Mushroom" and "National Banana Day." Yummy. I like mushrooms and I like bananas. Not together of course but separately they are delicious.
My snippets are these: years and years ago, when I was in my teens my family took a driving trip east to Pennsylvania to visit relatives, and on that trip we were taken on a excursion to a mushroom 'farm.' I remember being taken down into a very damp smelling basement room with a dirt floor full of growing mushrooms. So that's where mushrooms come from, at least the ones that are for sure safe to eat. I'm sure you've heard of Pennsylvania Dutchman Mushrooms.
On another travel adventure to the western Caribbean many years later, two friends and I were on an excursion bus being driven through lush jungle, marveling at the scenery, when suddenly bunches of bananas appeared hooked to a conveyor belt that stretched overhead above the road from one side to the other. We were told that what we were seeing was the first step in getting the bananas to market. Now, whenever I buy Dole bananas at the grocery store, I think of them first sliding through the jungle on an elevated conveyor belt. Kind of like the jungle zip line ride I took on another trip. Some bananas have all the fun.
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