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Clayton was the original voice of Miss Chiquita, the Chiquita banana singer. In 1944, bananas were an exotic fruit in America. In 1944, bananas were an exotic fruit in America. The Chiquita banana jingle was introduced, not only to promote bananas, but to teach the public how to use and store them.
In 1944, the company premiered the "Chiquita Banana" advertising jingle, which extolled the virtues of the fruit as well as when to eat them and how to store them. The song, which had an infectious calypso beat, began with the words "I'm Chiquita Banana, and I've come to say." [12] The brand name Chiquita was registered as a trademark in 1947.
Entrance façade of the old United Fruit Building at 321 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana The United Fruit Company (later the United Brands Company) was an American multinational corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Latin American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe.
Chiquita is most famous for its tropical produce, which is largely grown outside of the U.S. However, the show doesn't feature any of the Latin American plantations where its farmers cultivate ...
The United Fruit Company created a banana-woman character in 1944, Chiquita, whose fruit hat resembled Miranda's. [130] In Small Town Deb (1942), Jane Withers does an impression of Carmen Miranda and sings "I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)", which was one of Miranda's signature songs. [ 131 ]
The second half of your adult life begins when you start to memorize produce codes at the grocery store….bananas are 4011 🍌 — Taylor Ando (Imeson) (@TaylorImeson) September 7, 2023 Banana ...
The banana business is a tough one, with low margins and a product that can't be differentiated from another (ie, a commodity). For Chiquita Brands International , this is a familiar reality.
The company later became Chiquita Brands International and would use a banana wearing a fruit hat headdress on its logo for decades. [6] In 1987 the banana character was replaced with a woman by artist Oscar Grillo, creator of the Pink Panther, to reflect "the image the public had of Miss Chiquita as a real person." [6]