I?????ve Changed. This Is War. Seal the Borders. Stop the Visas.

[_MissTish]

When the trumpet sounded, it was
all prepared on the earth,
the Jehovah parcelled out the earth
to Coca Cola, Inc ., Anaconda ,
Ford Motors , and other entities:
The Fruit Company, Inc .
reserved for itself the most succulent,
the central coast of my own land,
the delicate waist of America.
It rechristened its territories
as the ’Banana Republics’
and over the sleeping dead,
over the restless heroes
who brought about the greatness, the liberty and the flags,
it established the comic opera:
abolished the independencies,
presented crowns of Caesar,
unsheathed envy, attracted
the dictatorship of the flies,
Trujillo flies, Tacho flies,
Carias flies, Martinez flies,
Ubico flies, damp flies
of modest blood and marmalade,
drunken flies who zoom
over the ordinary graves,
circus flies, wise flies
well trained in tyranny.

Among the blood-thirsty flies
the Fruit Company lands its ships,
taking off the coffee and the fruit;
the treasure of our submerged
territories flow as though
on plates into the ships.

Meanwhile Indians are falling
into the sugared chasms
of the harbours, wrapped
for burials in the mist of the dawn:
a body rolls, a thing
that has no name, a fallen cipher,
a cluster of the dead fruit
thrown down on the dump.

Pablo Neruda

[_MissTish]

Using limes to prevent scurvy in the British Navy. What did I win?

A gimlet!

[_Quasimodo]

Using limes to prevent scurvy in the British Navy. What did I win?

A gimlet!

That'll do just fine!

[_ajax18]

United Fruit Company
SEE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocolonialism

I don't see the difference between Spanish and English colonies in this link. The US was subjected to the same colonialism that Latin America was. Why is one a better place to live than the other?

[_ajax18]

Laura Ingraham pointed out that we've spent $65 billion/year more on Homeland security and the annoying airport backups we've endured since 9/11. Yet people can still drive across the southern border in Taliban garb with no fear of border patrol.

[_ludwigm]

British Sailors used to carry Limes on board to prevent Scurvy. You Scurvy dog.

And any fruits...

Blackthorne walked back along the corridor and unlocked his own cabin door, relocking it behind him. The cabin was low-beamed, small, and orderly, and he had to stoop as he crossed to sit at his desk. He unlocked a drawer and carefully unwrapped the last of the apples he had hoarded so carefully all the way from Santa Maria Island, off Chile. It was bruised and tiny, with mold on the rotting section. He cut off a quarter. There were a few maggots inside. He ate them with the flesh, heeding the old sea legend that the apple maggots were just as effective against scurvy as the fruit and that, rubbed into the gums, they helped prevent your teeth from falling out. He chewed the fruit gently because his teeth were aching and his gums sore and tender, then sipped water from the wine skin. It tasted brackish. Then he wrapped the remainder of the apple and locked it away. A rat scurried in the shadows cast by the hanging oil lantern over his head.

From Shōgun by James Clavell.

[_I have a question]

Bonus point for where the term 'Limey" came from, but no Googling!

Using limes to prevent scurvy in the British Navy. What did I win?

The aforementioned bonus point, obviously!
(the Chateau-neuf is in the post...)