This shit is, in fact, bananas. On episode 8 of the Unhinged History Podcast we pull apart the shocking story of bananas with the rise of the United Fruit Company, corruption, power struggles, CIA involvement, a brutal massacre, and the devastating Panama disease. It concludes with an intriguing explanation of why candy bananas taste the way they do.

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