Is This Still True?
According to my sources, I can’t confirm the truth of the meme without a date, but bananas are cheap in Ethiopia. This is misleading. Prices differ widely throughout each nation, and certain areas of Australia are far more expensive than others. It’s possible to cultivate bananas in Australia, albeit not very successfully.
With retail prices like that, one might believe that all bananas are imported, but this is not the case. However, Ethiopia gets a head start by producing a wide range of banana types, including plantains. France, on the other hand, is Europe’s biggest banana exporter. Although the United States isn’t a significant banana producer, it exports many of them. Make sense?