Potassium deficiency?
Thirty Thousand Pounds of Bananas was a Harry Chapin song, about an actual event on a New York Interstate. A semi carrying, you guessed it, 15 tons of bananas was involved in a traffic accident. The crash wasn't so bad at first, but the mashed monkey fruit made for a slippery mess that caused a chain reaction that closed the road for several hours.
You remember Harry Chapin, don't you? Taxi? I always thought Randy Newman was inspired by him, at least a little. Chapin died of a heart attack in a traffic accident...his VW was hit by a semi, and it was never determined if he had the attack first, or if he saw the semi bearing down on him and that was the cause.
This song was one of my favorites of his.
Dan