The other dominant banana company in New Orleans was founded by two Sicilian immigrants, the Vaccaro brothers, in 1899. They began with the importation of bananas from Honduras. They flourished because they bought up the city’s ice factories in order to preserve the bananas. At the time, the company was known as Standard Fruit, and is now part of t
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there is a general feeling that something is terribly wrong with the federal government, and we can expect that perception to intensify in the 2020s.
