idk if the rice thing is less wild than bananas being sold for a dollar apiece at the 1900s Worlds Fairs. I mean a fuckin...
Anonymous asked: idk if the rice thing is less wild than bananas being sold for a dollar apiece at the 1900s Worlds Fairs. I mean a fuckin banana? fuck our ancestors were deprived... then again it was a different banana we'll never get to taste so there's that
That was the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition, they were 10 cents, and I suppose “new fruit plantations in the tropical Americas with steam-powered lines of transport to consumer markets” was exactly the kind of important development that gets shown off at a World’s Fair