Why are the bananas crooked?

The banana, that beautiful, yellow curved fruit of the banana plant.A banana plant has no stem but actually consists entirely of leaves. That's where a flower bud grows. This bud consists of up to 100 flowers, and each flower becomes a banana. The banana plant needs a lot of sun.

According to horticulture, it actually belongs to the vegetables, because the banana tree is a herb. It's the world's largest spice. But culinary, it's part of the fruit. The banana is eaten as a snack, but also as a dessert.

And why are they crooked? In the song of Tony Corsari from 1959 there is no answer, so you don't get any wiser. He does sing it in different languages, which is very nice, at least, for that time.

Andre van Duin also sang a song about it, probably a slightly more famous song. His answer is, if you put them upright, they fall over, d'rom!Or is it completely different, what is being whispered? Don't they fit in their skins anymore, like being straight?

Of course, there is only one really good answer: they grow upwards, towards the spinning sun. Like all plants, they grow into the light. At the top they are attached to the stem, and the bottom of the track grows towards the light. The leaves hold back the sun, so they are still straight at first. When the leaves start to fall, they grow in an arc towards the sun.