My Dad used to yell this at me in the morning to wake me up. I HATED it! Now, I have started doing it to my son. It's involuntary, I just say it and don't realize I've said it until it's too late. Hmmm, I don't think I'm going to try to stop, someone else needs to suffer like I did. MUHAHAHHAHAAA.
Anyway, I got to thinking, where the heck did that come from, "time to rise and shine for the United Fruit Line?" So, I looked it up, turns out there is a historical society that keeps the history of the United Fruit Company http://www.unitedfruit.org/index.htm. The United Fruit Company was born on March 30th 1899 with the merger of the Boston Fruit Company and a banana fruit grower in Costa Rica. When they first began operation they supplied 75% of the bananas to the U.S. They created Miss Chiquita Banana in 1944 as a post war marketing campaign and they changed the company name to Chiquita Brands International in 1989.
OH MY GOSH, the history of this company is ridiculously interesting, I wish I could write about all of it, but I'm sure no one would read it. I had no idea that the U.S. invaded South America, Honduras and Cuba multiple times in the late 1800s and early 1900s and that there was a "banana war" between the European Union and the U.S. between 1993 and 2001! I thought I had a good education!
Still, I could not find the exact origin of the saying "time to rise and shine for the United Fruit Line." I'm totally guessing, but I bet it has to do with people on the rail distribution lines in the U.S. I will investigate further and one day, when you least expect it, I will have the answer! I know, I know, you are super anxious.
Anyway, I got to thinking, where the heck did that come from, "time to rise and shine for the United Fruit Line?" So, I looked it up, turns out there is a historical society that keeps the history of the United Fruit Company http://www.unitedfruit.org/index.htm. The United Fruit Company was born on March 30th 1899 with the merger of the Boston Fruit Company and a banana fruit grower in Costa Rica. When they first began operation they supplied 75% of the bananas to the U.S. They created Miss Chiquita Banana in 1944 as a post war marketing campaign and they changed the company name to Chiquita Brands International in 1989.
OH MY GOSH, the history of this company is ridiculously interesting, I wish I could write about all of it, but I'm sure no one would read it. I had no idea that the U.S. invaded South America, Honduras and Cuba multiple times in the late 1800s and early 1900s and that there was a "banana war" between the European Union and the U.S. between 1993 and 2001! I thought I had a good education!
Still, I could not find the exact origin of the saying "time to rise and shine for the United Fruit Line." I'm totally guessing, but I bet it has to do with people on the rail distribution lines in the U.S. I will investigate further and one day, when you least expect it, I will have the answer! I know, I know, you are super anxious.
Here is some Chiquita Bananna for you (Thanks CBro): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4922661044281754625&q=Chiquita+Banana&ei=4ANlSLnZA4Hk4AKh-bDFAg&hl=en
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Somehow fruit always ends up in craziness. If you asked ten people to say something utterly random, I'm guessing at least five of them would mention some kind of fruit. I wonder why fruit didn't get a reputation for moral rectitude.
-Grape Ape
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