People collect all kinds of interesting items. For example, I have collected, of all things, banana stickers for close to five decades. I have hundreds of different ones. There are so many brands I’ve collected that are not the familiar mainstream brands such as Chiquita, Del Monte, Dole, etc.
It absolutely made my day when I would come across a sticker that had been redesigned. Turbana was one that seem to do that regularly.
Flea and farm markets in South Florida were an incredible source for new additions to be found when I would visit my mother. Friends and family would look for stickers for me if they were traveling to distant and foreign locales.
One story: When my mom visited Japan she saw a bunch of bananas with a mainstream sticker but written in Japanese. When she pulled the banana from the rest of the bunch the storekeeper kind of freaked out. Due to the language barrier, it took several moments for Mom to realize that not only can you not take one banana, you can’t just pull off a sticker either. You need........