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Bananas: The Fastest-Traveling Fruit
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It was 1890 in Limón, Costa Rica, and Minor Cooper Keith was the “Banana King.” Keith traveled to Central America to build railroads, but when he planted 800,000 acres of bananas to feed his workers, he ended up in the banana business, too. In 1899, he co-founded United Fruit and set his sights on the U.S. market. Two secrets helped Keith’s bananas cross the 7,175 miles from Limón to Seattle in under seven days. The first was the railroad, which United Fruit operated. Railroad cars sped the bananas from their plantations to the Port of Limón. There, they were loaded onto the first-ever refrigerated ships. Those ships steamed north, where their precious cargo
was unloaded, stacked into yet more United Fruit railroad cars, and dispatched across the U.S. This mad scramble of plantation workers, conductors, and captains brought us the plethora of bananas we have today.
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