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No visit to Martinique would be complete without also visiting the Banana Museum! They have all kinds of bananas, and all kinds of fun facts about bananas, in French English.

Here's an excerpt, to win you over:

Banana, an erotic fruit?
Banana is a fruit in keeping with sexuality. Did Josephine Baker help for increasing its popularity in France? Probably, her scene outfit , a belt of plantain bananas (the biggest) and she added: "Oh gosh, Madam!". That stayed in memory. The shape, the length, the size of the banana made a erotic object of it. Offering a lady a banana may be very .. suggestive!!!

  Man kan nesten ikke besøke Martinique uten å sette av noen timer til en visitt på bananmuseet. De dyrker mange typer bananer her, og på ubehjelpelig fransk-engelsk får man presentert de merkeligste fakta om bananer. For eksempel kan man lære at i Karibien sier de om jenter som kanskje har litt for mye moro med litt for mange at de har bananskall på ryggen.
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