Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "How the US Stole Central America (With Bananas)" video.

  1. My favorite banana story: when my new Colombian wife came to the USA, I rapidly learned that the word, kinda, for bananas was "platinos". When my beautiful wife asked for platinos, I pointed to the pile of fresh, yellow bananas at the local store. "Esta no es platinos" (not bananas) was the reply. We repeated this a couple of times. Finally, we went to the "Tienda Mexicana" (Mexican supermarket). We came across a table where there was a pile of bananas, but clearly past their prime. Brown and rotting. Yeech. My wife, seeing this, clapped her hands together and exclaimed "platinos!". Turns out to latin America, yellow bananas are unripe, and brown ones are where the fruit has achieved the maximum sugar content!
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