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Orange Carrots, Yes, We Have No Bananas

In the 19 twenties, there was an outbreak of panama disease. A world wide banana shortage was caused as result of thisdi s and in 19 23, there was such a folkan banana shortage that one of the most popular songs in the world,. It was a novelty song called, yes, we have no bananas. But as i had mentioned previously, carrots became orange, most likely because of william of orange. And this orange color found its way into sectarian divides in ireland, because you had orange men who were protestants, who were unionists, and then you had nationalists, who were most often catholics. In belfast, there were these widespread protests about a thing

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