Movie ads for Chiquita bananas, circa 1947. Of note: the deeply-unacceptable-today portrayal of cannibals, the intense promotion of brown-flecked bananas, and imagery that echo the nastiest-looking 20th-century dishes.
More on the unhappy history of Chiquita.
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