![]() ![]() ![]() This is the first year I even thought about exotic fruits and preserving and I have no idea why. Nowhere in this jingle is there anything about making preserves, but it’s still utterly charming. In the 1940s, when bananas were the first mass market tropical fruit imported, the famous (ear-wormish) Chiquita banana song was aired to help people learn how to eat and keep bananas. It was like cruising the breakfast bar at Club Med. ![]() Coconuts, pomelo, small extremely sweet bananas, grapefruit, papaya, green skinned mangoes, melons of all sorts, blood oranges and Ugli fruit. All the tropical fruits were displayed there. And beyond the mangoes, there was a cart, big and wooden, with a tent shaped roof. There was a large display of champagne mangoes at Whole Foods. Imagine Carmen Miranda’s fruit filled hat.
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