Is a Bananaocalypse coming?

That’s not funny.

The result could be “grave repercussions for the banana value chain.”

The banana value chain?

Alright, maybe it’s a teensy bit funny.

"I think we'll be OK," chuckled Kara Pringle, owner of Cupcakes So Sweet in Austell, where they sell a yummy Banana Cream cupcake on Thursdays and Fridays.

Pringle wasn’t the only metro Atlantan who hadn’t heard anything about a looming Bananaocalypse. Others — a smoothie chain and several restaurants featuring banana-centric menu items — either declined to comment or didn’t return phone calls.

Maybe they thought we were, uh, bananas.

True, the fungus-spawned “Fusarium wilt” hasn’t really hit Latin America yet — the FAO’s warning was aimed at spurring stepped-up monitoring and prevention efforts. Nor is it likely to take direct aim at crops in Georgia, a place that’s long been fertile territory for cotton and pecan plantations, but not banana ones.

"Commercially, no bananas are grown in Georgia," University of Georgia Department of Horticulture assistant professor Erick Smith wrote in an email. "Temperatures in the high 20s F can kill the plant to the ground. If there is banana in Georgia, it will be planted as an ornamental or in a home garden."

Bananas are the fourth most important food crop in the least-developed countries, according to the FAO, whose worst-case scenario is a “massive destruction of much of the world’s banana crop.” Meanwhile, Salon reports that 70 percent of the world’s banana exports are grown in the region of Latin America that’s now in the fungal bull’s-eye, so we do have some peel in the game here.

Unless you really like the idea of paying $11.95 for a banana nut mini-muffin.

S0 not funny.