Most Americans are unaware that today’s yellow banana is like a shadow of the one that preceded it—a yellow banana with a sweeter flavor, firmer texture, and better culinary versatility.
, most Americans are unaware that today’s yellow banana is like a shadow of the one that preceded it—a yellow banana with a sweeter flavor, firmer texture, and better culinary versatility was once the norm. The long, curved, school-bus yellow banana that America first marveled at was a variety called the Gros Michel, or “Big Mike.”
. I ordered a small box of Gros Michel bananas and patiently waited for them to arrive at my door but realized I didn’t quite know how to qualitatively judge one banana against another. To truly understand how the elusive Gros Michel from years past compares to the Cavendish that litters produce stands today, I knew I had to speak with a bona fide fruit expert.
It became clear to me why the Gros Michel was the first choice banana for importation: It’s just an all-around better banana. In response to the banana industry’s unsustainable agricultural practices which were ravaging Guatemala’s farmland, then president Juan Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, which reallocated this abandoned, arable land back to the people of Guatemala. In response, United Fruit Company lobbied the United States federal government to protect their financial interests. The federal government did so through a Red Scare propaganda smear campaign against Guatemala’s president.
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