Categories agriculture Crop Profiles food Plants Bananas: The Original Not-From-Here Fruit Post author By James Post date October 25, 2009 2 Comments on Bananas: The Original Not-From-Here Fruit A banana storage room in Salt Lake City in 1913. As early as 1905 the United States was importing 33 million bunches of bananas a year. Bunches averaged more than 100 individual bananas. Billions of bananas were being consumed in America before the Ford Model-T car was first produced. Continue reading “Bananas: The Original Not-From-Here Fruit” Tags banana, Iowa, local food