Nestle? Spectrum? Some random company nobody knows about?

  • @[email protected]
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    421 year ago

    Chiquita bananas. They literally stole entire south/central American countries and used death squads and the CIA to enslave the workers and kill them when they asked for such unreasonable demands like being paid in actual currency

    • @Idefinitelydonotknow
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      1 year ago

      Banana Republic is a term coined for all the countries where this company operated.

      • @JGrffn
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        61 year ago

        As someone who lives in a banana republic that now has banana republic stores in its malls, this is a perplexing and sort of insulting end result, and I don’t understand how the name of the store ever took off

    • SeaJ
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      41 year ago

      Don’t forget Dole. They caused the annexation is Hawai’i.

      Both have paid terrorist organizations in the last couple decades.

    • z3rOR0ne
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      01 year ago

      And we’ll never even get to know what the Gros Miguel Banana tasted like!