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it's OK with curry, or sweet and sour Chinese dishes, but raw - yuk!!!

I love fresh pineapple - also cooked in upside down cake.

Yes Nyx. :-D

The best pineapples I had were the ones served for my breakfast when I was in Ghana.
Here I like them served with minted sugar. :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

If you feed pineapple plants with sugared water do they end up sweeter fruit? (For the same reason that people feed tomato plants sugared water?)

I tried it with tomatoes when we used to grow them but I could never perceive any difference. :-S

I like pineapple, raw or cooked.

As others have said, I tend to steer clear of controversial subjects, like religion and politics, not just on the boards, but generally. I don't like arguments!

Why is ther a pineapple on the lid of the men's trophy at Wimbledon ?

Pineapples are quite pleasant but for me...They have to be cut up into small pieces, really ripe, or otherwise tinned. If not, the acid makes the corners of my mouth sore. :-0

They look weird growing amidst their tough spiky leaves.
A field full of them is menacing, reminiscent of "the Day of the Triffids".
The liqueur is a handy mixer if you like cocktails and the juice on its own, cold, is OK at breakfast time.

Otherwise not very edible especially when fresh English strawberries are an option.

Thanks for replies :-) I think I would only be tempted to eat it if it were a surefire cure for hay fever :-D

So, you can alter the flavour depending on what you water it with. No wonder my tomatoes taste salty.

Hot day - Del Monte 100% pineapple juice ice lolly.

Delish. :-D

Bob- drink more water before you water your tomatoes, and don't 'hold it in' for so long ;-)

While enjoying yr lolly reflect that del Monte has convictions for slave labor while its plantations in Costa Rica and the Philipines are next to it.

I hate googled reports that use American spellings :-(

I eat pineapple hot (fried), cold, juiced, smashed with ice, anyway you like :-D

Predictable or what :-)

Especially when their c&p isn't quite right (my c&p in quotes)

If your not going to eat anything that may have (in the past) involved slave labour, I trust you don't eat most fruit, sugar or tea!

As for the recent case against Del Mote - it wasn't them directly, but Global Horizons, a labour recruiter from Los Angeles.
It also wasn't slavery - but working conditions. "Some 150 Thai workers on a Del Monte pineapple plantation in Hawaii will get $1.2 million to settle allegations of sub-standard working conditions."

Now, recent slavery - plenty of it in the UK:
Car washes, restaurants, nail bars, and, of course, prostitution, to name a few.
"Slavery doesn’t discriminate. In the UK, children are used as forced labour in factories, as beggars, cannabis farm workers and even for benefit fraud. In a recent case, four traffickers from Afghanistan brought five children into the UK, where they were used to procure four council houses, income support benefits and supplementary housing and council tax benefits totalling well over £65,000."

Interesting article here about modern global slavery:
http://listverse.com/2014/12/16/10-everyday-products-that-are-made-with-slave-labor/

I trust you don't use ANY of these products.

...and yes, I'm predictable at times - as I stated on page 1 :-D :-D

Edit: Only a Wiki thing - but interesting information about Domingo del Monte:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domingo_del_Monte

Next to what, Rollo?

Interesting reading, thank you Maggie.

I can see you're concerned about the state of the world, Rollo, so why waste electricity going on here or why waste petrol and rubber visiting Dorset?

Incidentally, you pulled a thread recently so what a complete waste of time, effort and electricity. I never had you pinned as a quitter so what was that all about?

Get stuck into me by all means, but don't be surprised if I'm in a retaliatory mood rather than my usual lazy one.