Did you know, that some Hamburger fruit importers founded the Hamburg-Columbia Banana AG on the 23rd of June in 1910 which bought a 525.000 D-Mark license for some territory in Columbia? One of the main stockholders in this corporation was Hapag. Got quite an exciting history, those bananas, eh?
Easy to take down? Sick and ill very often and a magnet for all kinds of bacteria? With one banana and an apple each morning and evening, you’ll be able to strengthen your immune system and you’re ready to fight the killer viruses of the world. At least at home. Getting sick anyway? At least you ate something healthy. Which is alot more than most people can say about themselves. Where’s my banana?
Did you know that red bananas are cultivated in Kenya and Mexico and that the taste of those is even more intense than that of the usual, yellow bananas? You can store them up to a couple of days at room temperature, and they’re great for fruit salads or for the raw pleasure.
Take: One cocktail bowl (not a bucket). A shaker is helpful- gotta be shakin’ it somewhere! Some ice cubes, too. In the shaker. Found it’s way? Great, let’s begin with the procedure. We need 2 cl of banana syrup, 2 cl of pineapple syrup, 4 cl of passion fruit nectar and 4 cl of unwhipped whipped cream. Close the shaker and shake it. Pour it into your glass and start enjoying! Djam!
OK, I´ll try to be serious, even though it´s quite hard. On the other hand, if there´s a driving school called “banana“, would you go there to learn driving a car? Well, that´s just one weird fact but when you take a look at their website, then you´ll get eye-cancer anyway. Sorry guys, don´t mind it, you might be quite tough and serious but with a website like this, you better give away flyers. Or go look for a professional webdesign studio to get a nice and proper homepage done. What´s more? Take care of the bananas. They might be slippery.
Did you know that Bremen used to be the port of entry for bananas from West India, while Hamburg usually only imported bananas from the Caribbean islands as well as Cameroon and Brazil, from where the bent fruit reached the rest of the country? Now say again the banana ain’t a globe trotter!
Because of it’s exceptional location at the equator, with it’s flat coastal plain that reaches into the pacific, Ecuador offers the ideal climate for the cultivation of bananas. This condition makes Ecuador the largest exporter of bananas in the whole world. And yet the country is still shaken by many economic, politic and social crises, of which some the banana trade is even responsible.