Pineapple is best from a tin

[DyslexicScientist]

This is just common sense right? Fresh can just be so sharp, makes your teeth sensitive, is difficult to cut and make your tounge / throat feel nasty.

[Silvercatowner]

Hmmm.... no, not 'best'. Both are nice, one is not nicer than the other. Both need extensive cutting equipment to access.

[Oysterbabe]

Yabu. Fresh is a million times nicer.

[BrandNewAndImproved]

I like both.

Fresh for a fruit salad, tinned for cheese and pineapple although tinned is ok in a fruit salad.

[PacificDogwod]

YABU.

I used to not dislike tinned pineapple, but since I've acquired the brilliant fresh pineapple slicer-and-dicer gadget, it's fresh pineapple all the way for me. Love the stuff.

[londonrach]

Yabu. Nothing beats the fresh which is really easy to cut with a pineapple cutter (lakeland...have given as presents to half my family now)

[JamaisDodger]

YABU. Pineapple is horrible either way.

[DyslexicScientist]

But ladies do you live in the uk? The pineapple in the shops is hard picked and never ripens properly. Don't you get a dodgy tongue or throat from the fresh stuff in uk shops?

Its different if you live somewhere tropical however.

[Titsywoo]

Tinned is better on pizza

[DyslexicScientist]

I have a pineapple cutter. It either goes too close to the skin or wastes alot.

[londonrach]

Op smell your pineapple before you buy it..... I always leave it for a couple of days unless im greedy and need pineapple now! (Live in uk and pineapples from ldll)

[PacificDogwod]

UK here too.
I am another pineapple sniffer

Could you be mildly allergic to pineapple??
Tinned stuff will have been superheated and the pineapple enzymes destroyed so would maybe not affect you.

[McSnuff]

Ah, OP, I suspect you're allergic to a particular enzyme in pineapple, which is destroyed by the canning process which cooks the fruit. Bromelain - that's the boy. It's used as a meat tenderiser, which is pretty much how it feels to eat if you react to it. (Kiwi fruit has its own version of this, actinidin - if kiwi fruit makes your mouth and throat sore, don't eat it.)

Stick to tinned and you'll be fine.

[PacificDogwod]

Ah, McSnuff, knows the science!

[DyslexicScientist]

Rach what should it smell like?

The only decent pineapples in Europe are grown in glass houses in the Azores and picked ripe. Never had a good one from the shops. I bought a mango from lidl and it was has hard as an apple, never ripened and was stringly as a ball of wool.

[DyslexicScientist]

Oh I didn't think I was allergic as fresh ones in tropical countries taste great to me.

Kiwis do have that affect also. The worst is cape gooseberries, do they have the same?

[patterkiller]

mcsnuff very interesting. Dd1 has a funny reaction to fresh, this could be the reason.

[Buttercup27]

Fresh makes my mouth/lips/throat swell but with tinned/on pizza etc I'm fine so fresh is the work of the devil but tastes so much nicer

[McSnuff]

Pacific, sorry, since I only found out about this in my 40's, I've been a bit keen to pass on the info.

[EatDessertFirst]

I'm allergic to fresh pineapple (which is a crying shame because I love the stuff!) so its tinned all the way for me. Fresh tastes better though, and is well worth the faff but maybe not the rash.

[McSnuff]

I have no idea about cape gooseberries, I'm afraid. Sounds feasible though.

If kids have a funny reaction, I'd just encourage them to steer clear of it. And open a tin instead.

[Lweji]

Yes, pinapple in the tropics is so much better.
As are ripe mangos straight from the tree.
And real fresh coconut water drank straight from the fruit.

[VegetablEsoup]

yabu
with tinned pineapple you can't do this:

[londonrach]

It smells strongly of pineapple when its near ready, the same as a melon smells of melon. If no smell its not ripe.

[londonrach]

Anyone else now have images of lines of mntters smelling pineapples.

[TiggyD]

But fresh pineapples have an enzyme in that remove your fingerprints meaning that you can commit any crime you want and get away with it. Real for me all the way.