Posted on 05/20/2024 8:00:08 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
The Rubyglow pineapple –— bred for its distinctive red exterior and its sweetness — costs $395.99 at Melissa’s Produce.
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I grew up in the tropics so I got an apple. Mmmmm was it good. Never saw a pear until I got back stateside.
Cotton candy is simply cheap spun sugar, that’s why I likened it to a Ritz Mock Apple Pie. If you want cotton candy, have cotton candy. If you want apple pie, make apple pie.
Yes, when we lived in Hawaii in the late ‘60s they practically gave away the pineapples.
25 cents each at the commissary, and they were delicious.
Wrong country.
I always look for new varieties when shopping. $400 pineapple is a wee bit steep. I love Cara Cara oranges, Taylor’s gold pears and muscat grapes. Here where I live we get a pretty good variety of uncommon apples in the fall
Cheap pineapple, any pineapple, stops a Gout flareup in seconds. Those six ounce cans of Pineapple juice are great to keep near. I keep three sixpacks in my car. Pineapple slices or dried pineapple also work.
...so costly...
when
where
seems wrong HTB
Imagine that bad boy on a pizza. /s
Damn pigs ate all our pineapple crop.
IIRC a single pineapple was between five and ten thousand dollars in today's money.
Ahhh...yes. Quite exotic.
Neat link from three years ago...
https://wydaily.com/our-community/series/our-historic-home/2021/12/25/the-colonial-pineapple/
My dad mentioned this as well - he’d get one orange in his Christmas stocking - this was the height of the depression, my grandfather was unemployed and the dead of winter in Indianapolis. He was grateful to get it.
Years later, when he settled in California, he planted every variety of orange he could find - he planted the Washington navel in my own yard 30 years ago, produces the sweetest oranges on earth in the dead of winter. My well-off uncle put an orange in his kids’ Christmas stocking every year as a reminder.
Miss Dad every day and think often of that single Christmas orange.
Down the road $2.00 pineapples - fresh picked...
That’s not $400 for pineapple.
That’s $400 for stupid.
Read about this a couple months ago. They ship without the top so you can’t grow them yourself.
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