Last week, on a regular hand-shaking visit to the local farmer's market, Chongo mistakenly bought plantains rather than his normal bananas-which some politically and enviromentally-correct chimps prefer to eat, though they must be properly prepared, of course.

Will Chongo openly endorse banana's or plantains? Free trade, environmenrtally sustainable plantains are preferred by some chimps, over the corporately controled banana's (younbg chimps often leave chimp school early to pick them for low wagwes).

But, there is the lucrative banana lobby money from United Fruit to consider in the banana-plantain endorsement decision?

"Even though plantains are bland tasting as year old shit, I will eat them, dressed up with condiments, if they get me more lobby dollars and votes", Chongo was reported as saying to a close staffer, last week.