I'm (finally) reading Thomas Pynchon's Gravity Rainbow over the holiday break.

"Pirate has become famous for his Banana Breakfasts. Messmates throng here from all over England, even some who are allergic our outright hostile to bananas, just to watch - for the politics of bacteria, the soil's stringing of rings and chains in nets only God can tell the meshes of, have seen the fruit thrive often to lengths of a foot and a half, yes amazing but true."