What the hell is wrong with bananas these days?

Yep. Bananas.

When I was a kid, bananas had a tough skin - not the wet cotton type skin the recent crop has. Even when the skin became spotted brown, the fruit itself stayed firm and yellow long after the skin started to darken. I remember we used to find firm fruit under even darkened skin as they aged.

I told my wife to stop buying them. The last batch of Chiquita bananas was the last straw. Just a day or so after they ripen, they start to get mushy even before the skin starts to brown. The skin itself peels off like wet paper and shreds. The bananas taste OK as long as you eat them in the two day window from when they're no longer green and when they're mush.

These are not your father's bananas. Anybody else noticed the same thing?