General Discussion

it just took a hell of a lot longer in a geothermally heated greenhouse.

We could do that here, but the bananas would be so expensive that you and I would never be able to afford them.

The real problem is going to be coffee. The stuff grows in parts of Hawaii and Puerto Rico, but not enough of it to satisfy the US market. Peopleare going to be making Depression coffee and grinding up NoDoz tablets to go into it, something which will likely taste worse than bad coffee does.

And whenever a coffee hound starts to complain about how expensive real coffee is, tell him/her who to thank for it.