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• Bananas were first imported to the U.S. in 1804 when a ship brought 30 stalks to New York from Cuba. They were introduced to the public at the Philadelphia Centennial Expo in 1876 and sold for 10 cents each, equal to $10 today. A guard posted next to a living banana plant prevented people from breaking bits off as souvenirs. • Within just 20 short years at the end of the 1800s, bananas went from being a novelty item to surpassing apples as America’s best selling fruit, in spite of the fact that bananas rot easily and must be shipped thousands of miles, whereas apples grow very near most of the cities in the U.S. Continued next page

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