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How Pineapples Became A Hashtag
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English - August 05, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MB - ★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsFood Arts Society & Culture history culinary cooking food Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Pineapple cakes. Pork-wrapped pineapple. Pineapple bento boxes, and beef pineapple noodle soup. Reporter Kai McNamee started seeing the spiky fruit everywhere—at restaurants, at convenience stores and at bakeries—after China banned pineapple imports from Taiwan earlier this year. A pineapple-related hashtag also took social media by storm. So what was the #FreedomPineapple campaign all about? Kai investigates in this episode of Proof.
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