Have you wondered why bananas are so cheap? Spoiler alert: the answer isn't good. Entities like the United Fruit Company had a nasty habit of taking advantage of low-wage workers, working them under the worst of conditions to sell cheap fruit back in foreign countries. But what happens when the workers fought back? Spoiler alert: the answer isn't good.
In this episode, we talk about the Banana Massacre of 1928 in Colombia. Find out who hurt people for fruit and what effects it had for most of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Bonus: Delicious History FAQs
The Spice Must Flow: Venice
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The Saffron War: Milan
The Nestle Conspiracy: Switzerland
Let Them Eat Cake?: Paris
How a Chicken Farmer and Some Scotch Won D-Day: Madrid
From Slaves To Kings: Ecuador
Delicious History Season 2
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A Meal Fit for a Colonist
Fascism Fell While Rice Grew
The Great Tamale Incident of 1976
The End of the World (Pt 2)
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The End of the World (Pt 1)
Revolutions Run on Coffee (Pt 2)
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