Unless, of course, you’re a member of the banana Republic that produced the banana. Then $2 is the largest fortune you’ve ever seen and your hands get chopped off if you get caught eating a banana when you were supposed to be picking it for the sheltered, ignorant shit head that wrote this tweet.
They are harvested green and inedible.
You guys pay almost 2$ for a single Banana? Looks like the people on both sides get fucked by the rich.
I live in Maryland. I can get like 5 bananas in the middle of winter for $2.
Fun fact: At least here in Germany, supermarkets almost lose money on bananas. They can’t raise the prices because the price of bananas is so ingrained into people’s minds that an increase would implicitly signal “expensive store” even if all the other prices stayed the same.
Yeah that’s not what imperialism is.
There is some pretty specific history around Dole, the US government, and Bananas.
The post didn’t mention the US