This food is deep fried and skewered in a "Q" form popular with Filipino street vendors, and it is often served on the side to be eaten with rice in Somali cuisine.
This food is deep fried and skewered in a "Q" form popular with Filipino street vendors, and it is often served on the side to be eaten with rice in Somali cuisine. Small producers of this commodity were driven out of business by sigatoka disease in the early 20th century. The Gros Michel (grow mee-SHELL) variety of this food was marketed with the image of Carmen Miranda during the 1950s before being largely replaced by the (*) Cavendish. In 1953, the CIA helped overthrow Jacobo Árbenz after he threatened American cultivators of this commodity in Guatemala. "El Pulpo," or "The Octopus," was the nickname for a corporation that dominated this commodity's production, the United Fruit Company. For 10 points, identify this fruit that nicknames repressive Central American "republics."
This food is deep fried and skewered in a "Q" form popular with Filipino street vendors, and it is often served on the side to be eaten with rice in Somali cuisine.
bananas [accept banana republics; prompt on fruit before "United Fruit Company"]