A simple five word email. You see, some poor underpaid secretary back in the UK had, on finishing her lunch, found that she had some fruit spare.Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science. The banana episode rose in my throat. The mailman might not realize Ken had graduated. On this episode, how one entrepreneur made bananas big business and changed the world for better and for worse. Banana Kelly, a LISC partner from the early days, has a storied history in the revival of the South Bronx. KOEPPEL: Minor Keith had grown up in in Brooklyn, N.Y. And he had become a cattle rancher in Texas. Total cargo tonnage increased 5 percent in the same period to more than 86 million metric tons. By 1885, eleven ships were flying under the banner of the new Boston Fruit Company, bringing to the United States ten million bunches of bananas a year.