The banana was a way for the United States to overcome the tactics of banana cultivation, because they truly believed that the people were beneath them, Soluri even goes so far as to say "slacker" (2) . The English are very precise when it comes to commenting on the mass consumerism of the era; Americans must have the best. That's the whole point of the Miss Chiquita banana: not only did the companies want to sell a banana, they wanted to sell you the best banana; some bananas are better than others (186). This has caused a major problem in Honduras, where companies prefer to abandon land and spend time fixing it due to over-cultivation. The workers were forced to become migrants and follow the work of the fruit company, otherwise they risked remaining unemployed (85). Things like this still happen in our culture today. The famous Walmart company is famous for building stores in communities, then demolishing them and rebuilding them several blocks away, forcing many out of work during the rebuilding, and destroying the land it was built on (The High Cost of Low