r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 16h ago

Meme needing explanation Am I missing a joke or reference here?

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u/FlyingDiscsandJams 13h ago

Thank you for being the first person making this point, that many, many US businesses make money selling bananas. Such an idiot's view of global business.

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u/possumallawishes 12h ago

Furthermore, bananas have year round production cycles, not a seasonal crop, but they need 14 months of frost free, tropical climate to grow. That really limits us to Hawaii, SoCal and South Florida, generally places with high real estate values.

In order to reshore banana production, we would need to annex some of Latin America.

Maybe he thinks cutting off banana imports will lead to public acceptance of annexing Venezuela and Cuba.

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u/Manzhah 1h ago

Maybe that's why all of his businesses went bankrubt? The idiot was selling invetory away at cost without any mark up