Bananas on Boats

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The bad luck banana on boats thing goes back to the early shipping days when it took many weeks for ships to transport the crop from South American plantations up to market in the U.S. The ships were slow and the crops often spoiled before reaching port. Investors lost all there money with a shipload of spoiled fruit. Another issue with bananas on boat were the large spiders that live in the plants and were transported with them. The dock worked were often bitten by them and viewed bananas and boats as bad luck.