50/50 blend of propaganda and home economics, riffing on the United Fruit company’s recipe booklets of the mid-20th century.
Now known as Chiquita Brands, United Fruits was anything but a cheery purveyor of tropical produce. Rather, the corporation worked hand-in-glove with the US Government and the CIA to facilitate regime change, crush labor organisation, defeat environmental advocacy, grab indigenous land, and, above all, ensure that the banana stayed unreasonably cheap and astronomically profitable in supermarkets across the world.