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thats a german invention, along with freeze dried foods (Richard Altmann)

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him inventing freeze drying is pretty far from importing grapes from elsalvador.

You get imported fruits and vegetables mostly when they're off-season in the states so you can have your strawberry all year round.

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you mean farmers dont grow strawberries in north america during winter???

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so are you talking about the Dutch East India trading company? It was the richest enterprise that ever existed and controlled a global monopoly on what you are describing.

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maybe but doutbfully. their goods were probably expensive and marketed as such. the reason bananas arent expensive is because the native populations dont own the plantations.