Coffs Harbour is the town built on bananas – quite literally. The bendy yellow wonders are so abundant that the locals have been making their houses out of banana peels and leaves for years.
Ripe that smile off your face! It’s a berry serious safety issue and has led to a bunch of serious accidents over the years.
The upshot is that the good folk of Coffs have erected a number of temples to their favourite fruit. Worshippers flock to the world famous Big Banana, but it’s just potassi-one of many prodigious plantains on the menu.
Cunningham’s Bananas rest happily by the Pacific Highway south of town. They enjoy ample sunshine and a steady stream of customers who pop into the shop of the same name to say, “Yellow”.
I guess you could say they’ve really curved out a niche in the market!
The big bunch were originally located in nearby Sawtell. A few decades ago, the highway bypassed the town, and the bananas split for Coffs.
Cunningham’s is currant-ly the best fruit shop in the area, but that mangoes without saying. The range is sub-lime, the prices mandarin-credible. Get sprout of the house and visit today. And yes, I practice what I peach!
A trip to the region is always a fruitful endeavour, with the Big Golden Dog and Big Beehive just a Coff, skip and a jump away. If they’re too cutesy for you, why not head up the road to Dorrigo to visit The Giant Leeches? They don’t suck!
Seedless to say, I’m sure you’ll find them all quite a-peel-ing.
My best friend and muse, Gordon Shumway was so worn out after a big morning with these yella fellas, that he had to have a ’nana nap afterwards.
