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October 25, 2009

Bananas: The Original Not-From-Here Fruit

Filed under: agriculture,Crop Profiles,food,Plants — Tags: , , — James @ 6:03 pm
A banana storage room in Salt Lake City in 1913.

A banana storage room in Salt Lake City in 1913.

As early as 1905 the United States was importing 33 million bunches of bananas a year. Bunches averaged more than 100 individual bananas. Billions of bananas were being consumed in America before the Ford Model-T car was first produced. (more…)

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