Brief Bananas

Bananas used to be the greatest revenue generator in Costa Rica but they have recently been overtaken by tourism.  In Costa Rica bananas take up over 50000 hectors which is quite a substantial amount of land relative to the size of the country.  From personal experience bananas are always available and often served with meals (and if there are no bananas there are usually fried plantains).  They can do lots with bananas 

i.e. my host family has had juice with banana in it at least once a day since we have been here.  My favorite banana so far had a small amount of honey on it or something similar to honey and it was very tasty.