Yellow peril is in our supermarkets

THERE'S a conspiracy; terrorism of our favourite fruit - 'bananagate.' Why do our multi-national supermarkets insist on destroying bananas to the point where they turn brown and go rotten the minute they are transferred from the shopping trolley to the car?

I keep promising myself not to buy bananas from supermarkets, yet succumbed last week, only to find every one rotten within 24 hours. Perhaps a ‘professor banana’ can explain? In the meantime, I’ll use the local greengrocer (assuming I can find one) as ‘bananagate’ is driving me round the bend.

Gary Charlesworth, Wellgreen Road, Sheffield S6.