During the ‘60s, Panama Disease decimated the world’s crops of Gros Michel bananas - a fatter, more flavorful cousin to our modern cultivar. While the fungus nearly wiped "Big Mikes" from existence, the less-popular, less-flavorful Cavendish banana proved resistant to the pathogen and survived all the way to our grocery stores today. The former packed more of the compound isoamyl acetate, which is what we interpret as banana flavour. So it is not that banana candy does not taste like bananas because it is artificial, but that bananas no longer taste like they used to. Pairs with a cognitive bias that parallels nostalgia - called rosy retrospection. >: [