#bananas
Blood-flavored bananas
Blood-flavored bananas
Once upon a time, there was a company called United Fruit Company. It became famous for the fact that it began to import bananas to the U.S. en masse. Back in the mid-19th century, bananas were in America like black caviar - expensive, prestigious, and eaten only by millionaires. But "United Fruit" built a hundred ships with refrigerators, and flooded the entire American market with bananas that cost 2 cents. Behind the scenes of this action there were some pretty cool squabbles, and American buyers didn't know about them. For example, in 1911, the president of Honduras gave United Fruit all the best banana plantations. But competitors from the company "Cuyamel" (also Americans) did not slumber: they overthrew the president, replacing him with their puppet, who gave the banana plantations to them.
In 1928, Colombian banana pickers demanded that United Fruit give them at least one day off a week. The Colombian police, paid for with company money, were brought in to quell the strike, and they killed up to 2,000 people. The rest of them shut up and went quickly to pick bananas. In 1929, United Fruit bought its main competitor, Cuyamel, and began controlling 60% of banana exports to the US. They murdered union leaders in South America, bribed politicians and police, and paid almost no taxes anywhere. In some countries (like Costa Rica or Colombia) it was United Fruit that was the main power, not the local government.
In 1953, Guatemalan President Arbenz turned over United Fruit's unused banana plantations to local impoverished peasants, and offered compensation. The company demanded 25 times as much money; it was sent packing. Then United Fruit simply ordered a coup at a similar price: negotiated a deal with the CIA, and financed a military invasion of Guatemala. The main motivation was that bananas on the shelves for Americans should not rise in price, they have become a favorite treat of millions. CIA mercenaries overthrew Arbenz, and put dictator Armas on the throne. This led to a 36-year civil war and the subsequent deaths of 200,000 people to Guatemala. But bananas didn't go up in price for Americans. It was a successful democratization, one to behold.
Since then, all the presidents of Central and South America were afraid to make a sound, and gave bananas for nothing. "United Fruit paid the banana pickers a pittance and did not give a penny to the budgets of the banana republics. For the slightest dissatisfaction the pickers were killed and the corpses were dumped into the sea. The American public happily bought bananas at a discount. But times have changed. "United Fruit was told it had lost its fucking mind and was bribing officials in Honduras to lower taxes on banana exports. In 1975, the military overthrew the company's protégé in Guatemala, dictator Lopez Arellano. In the same year, the head of the company, Eli Black (the company was by then called United Brands), threw himself out of a skyscraper in New York.
The company was quietly renamed Chiquita. And I still see bananas from this company in our supermarkets. Somehow everything has already been forgotten: how this corporation overthrew presidents, introduced slave labor, and people died by the hundreds of thousands because of it: we owe it the valuable term "banana republic".
They're lucky here: bananas pumped full of blood don't taste like blood.
They are so nice and sweet.
© Zotov
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/8910257.html
#USA #us #America #history #american #anglo-saxons #capitalism #slavery #military #CIA #vassalage #war #civil-war #Guatemala #Honduras #fruits #bananas #Chiquita
#Music on #White-Electric-Mirror
#GeneWeen 3/17/1970 #Birth US musician (Ween)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gd87JmkAkE
#Ween - #Bananas & #Blow
The world is going bananas anyway, so why not this way?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt_DVcue5HA
Sorry, but this very likely only makes sense to Germans of a certain minimal age:
Habba habba zoot zoot
Oder aber wat wat, ha wann dann
Habba habba zoot zoot,
Oder aber wat wat, ha wann dann
Ha doodeppa, doodeppa e-hm doodeppa
Katong!
(Bananas, Bananas, Doodeppa - wann dann?)
Habba habba zoot zoot
(Habbe Sprudel da!)
Oder aber wat wat, ha wann dann?
(Boah!)
Habba habba zoot zoot,
(Brrrrrrruhhh)
Oder aber wat wat, ha wann dann?
(Boha!)
Ha doodeppa, doodeppa, aha doodeppa
Katong!
(Bananas, Bananas, Doodeppa - wann dann?)
Habba habba zoot zoot
(Hulunu kunu han)
Oder aber wat wat (Ne, ka-krang)
Ha doodeppa, doodeppa, aha doodeppa
A-ham ham (Ham ham!)
Habba habba zoot zoot
Oder aber wat wat, ha wann dann?
Habba habba zoot zoot,
Oder aber wat wat, ha wann dann
Ha doodeppa, doodeppa aha doodeppa
Katong!
(Bananas, Bananas, Doodeppa - wann dann?)
Falls jemand einen "offiziellen" "Text" haben sollte, bin ich ganz Trommelfell...
#Nostalgie #Bananas #WDR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt_DVcue5HA
Anything But The Metric System
https://www.converttobananas.com/
convert your weights and measures to bananas.
A regal, ruling river there exists. Iquitos, Peru, is a fascinating and weired place. This series explores daily life of Iquitos people and has evolved under the guidance of Nikos Economopoulos. [+]
Photo by Raimund Moser
Big Hanuman instalation at Vijaya Keeladri Divya temple, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh [+]
Hanuman (/ˈhʌnʊˌmɑːn/; Sanskrit: हनुमान्, IAST: Hanumān), also called Anjaneya (Sanskrit: आञ्जनेय), is a Hindu god and a divine vanara companion of the god Rama. Hanuman is one of the central characters of the Hindu epic Ramayana. He is an ardent devotee of Rama and one of the Chiranjivis. Hanuman is regarded to be the son of the wind-god Vayu, who in several stories played a direct role in Hanuman's birth, and considered to be an incarnation or son of Shiva in Shaivism. Hanuman is mentioned in several other texts, such as the epic Mahabharata and the various Puranas.
Well @Kathryn Barr's black bananas (qv) actually made some pretty good #chocolate chip-banana #muffins. Even though the bananas baked up like tasteless cardboard, they were fine in the muffins. Lesson learned: don't buy green #bananas as sometimes they just stay green and never ripen.
ANA MERCEDES HOYOS, LUZ Y COLOR
Ana Mercedes Hoyos (29 September 1942 – 5 September 2014) was a Colombian painter, sculptor and a pioneer in modern art in the country. In her half-century of artistic works, she garnered over seventeen awards of national and international recognition. Beginning her career in a Pop Art style which moved towards abstract, her trajectory moved toward cubism and realism as she explored light, color, sensuality and the bounty of her surroundings.
"I like bananas" puzzles dude
https://i.imgur.com/Zt6BjBA.mp4
25 sec video sound
#video #bananas #lol
