You have to try a fresh one at least once. My husband always picks them out, and tells me that the way to tell that they’re ripe is to try plucking a leaf from the center of the very top - if it comes out easily with gentle pressure, that’s your pineapple.
(People also say that sprinkling a little salt on fresh pineapple makes it taste sweeter - I guess it goes to the saying that ‘salt makes things taste more like themselves’.)
I loved fresh pineapple as a kid and young adult but then I developed an allergy to it, really irritates my mouth. Cooked or canned pineapple ok.
“My husband always picks them out, and tells me that the way to tell that they’re ripe is to try plucking a leaf from the center of the very top - if it comes out easily with gentle pressure, that’s your pineapple.”
I didn’t know that! thanks
I do know they ripen as they sit on the counter, so I have to check them every few days.