Whither Bananas?

(image, like it says, from marcjohns.com)

It was time, we all agreed, for another show about fruit.
But we needed one this time of positive repute.
We'd last done beans (though not technically this show*)
& many people don't think they are fruits you know!
Before that, pumpkins - that was on Halloween!
Very few fruits want to be part of that scene.
We had apples & cherries, lemons, strawberries,
Evens melons - though some think them adversaries -
Anyway, what fruit should we cover this time?
Pineapple? Kiwi? Pomegranate? Lime?
We queried our listeners from Texas to Montana
& surprisingly no one mentioned the banana!
They said "nectarine" & "orange" & many said "plum"
We started to suspect they all thought we were dumb.
But what was the source of our particular suspicion?
It was of course the sin of omission.
Bananas to them appeared to be somewhat taboo.
That's when we knew what we were going to do.
Bananas it would be! Before the end of the year!
(Also we found few songs about nectarines, to be clear.)
So as we abandon this versifying style
Please pretend we are telling you this with a smile:

Self Help Radio's show about bananas airs tonight on KBOO from midnight to 3am.  That's Portland time! That's on 90.7fm in town & online at kboo.fm.  Lots of talk & music about bananas.  I hope you'll see the appeal.

* It was on the Dickenbock Report, not Self Help Radio.