Just to be sure we all know, wild bananas looked nothing like modern bananas. They were full of hard seeds and a pain to eat. They also were not sweet.The modern banana is more a product of science than nature. Also anyone born in the early 60s actually ate a different banana that went (mostly) extinct, so the banana Kirk is holding only dates back 50 years or so.
As for pomegranates, sometime hard to clean is a good thing to cut down on consumption. It takes me an enjoyable 1/2 hour or so to eat a bag of sunflower seeds. If I bought them shelled I would eat 8 times as much and enjoy them much less. I rarely buy a dozen pomegranates, but I enjoy the ones I do take the time to clean.
