Here's what I learned about bananas this summer when I took a deep sea fishing trip out of Hawaii.The legend is that a village chief had a bunch of his prized bananas stolen by some young warriors. So to punish them he had the witch doctor (medicine man - whatever they call them out there) put a curse on the warriors so that they would not catch any fish. Which they didn't. So in Hawaii, that is why they never allow bananas on the fishing boats. Sounds like this legend/story is working it's way around the world...