Ahh, the banana, the delightful crescent of friendly yellow, the sweet deliverer of hunger pangs across the globe. You wouldn’t think such an innocent fruit could be at the center of so much perfidy and shame, but alas. The growing interest in the South American fruit in other parts of the globe created a growing commercial lust in companies trading in the fruit, so much so that United Fruit, the biggest banana importer/transporter of them all, grew vast in size, but shrank in conscience.The company laid waste to good morals, and that blackness plays a peeled part in the love life of some of Swirled All the Way to the Shrub’s principal characters.
Jump on along to take a voyage with us back into a fascinating chapter in America’s swashbuckling corporate past.