{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "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...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/184883781403/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> 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</div>\n<p>That was the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition, they were 10 cents, and I suppose \u201cnew fruit plantations in the tropical Americas with steam-powered lines of transport to consumer markets\u201d was exactly the kind of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company\" target=\"_blank\">important development</a> that gets shown off at a World\u2019s Fair<br/></p>"}