One time he received unripened tomatoes, but he had powdered eggs and flour, so the soldiers ate fried green tomatoes that night.

Rather, Muthomi wanted to help small-scale banana farmers earn a better living, especially for unripened fruit, which is lower in sugar content.

Verdi was too hard on himself, and history has been unfair to a work marred only by a muddled libretto and unripened compositional resources.