tiny bananas ripened

When the plant fruits, the bottom few combs will have bananas that don't reach full size. The last few won't grow at all. That's when we chop off the flower below.
Anyways back to the fruit... we kept a few of the bananas that grew a tiny bit, just to see how they would turn out. They were less than half the size of the rest.
We had a pleasant surprise. The fruit still ripened and produced a sweet, but small, banana...