OMFG!!! Maneating pineapple

[AlrightBabby]

I was enjoying my slices of pineapple when my son, who is a massive source of useless information, tells me that as I was eating the pineapple, it was eating me back!!! I Googled it and it's bloody true 😲

So did people know this? How did I not know this??

Yeah, that’s why your mouth can hurt after eating it!

Once you swallow it, then enzyme is destroyed by your stomach acid. So it's only really getting a wee shot at your mouth.... But is only tingly for a little bit!

I’ve had blisters in the corners of my mouth from pineapples! Yes, I had to use google to find out wtf was causing it.

Every day's a school day!

A fun experiment to show your kids though is to put some pineapple on top of a steak. The steak will break down and get mushy; it's a great way to show them how enzymes work.

Spacezombies don't waste steak!

Oh this makes sense now! I always get little blisters on my tongue when I eat pineapple, which is really annoying because I love them

Just a bit of frying steak! Not a proper nice steak!

Soak it in salted water for 5-10 mins before you eat it. Takes the edge off.

On hearing that pineapple could help bring on labour, I ate three pineapples over two days. It did bring on labour, but it made my lips and mouth swell up so much I gave birth looking like Leslie Ash in her trout pout days.

The pineapple did not make it to England until the 1600s, and it became a HIT in the 1700s. Everything was made in pineapple shapes and painted with pineapples. It was THE status symbol! – If you had a pineapple under your arm in the 1700s… WELL, you were just the richest, coolest kid on the block. I am speaking literally though. People quite seriously took a pineapple to parties to show off, carrying it around for weeks until the pineapple started rot. You could even rent a pineapple for an evening.

(https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sciencecommunication/2012/10/07/the-flesh-eating-pineapple/)

If that doesn't explain the stunt pineapple then I don't know what will

Bromeliads...

DW used to have weekly Avonex injections for her MS, which has some unpleasant side-effects ("flu like symptoms"). Through some source I honestly can't remember back in 2002, I read that eating fresh pineapple (tinning destroys the enzyme) helped prevent them.

Which they did ....

Can also destroy your fingerprints ...

YY - fresh pineapple makes my tongue bleed. Roasted pineapple with cinnamon sugar, however.......mmmmmm.

If you add pineapple to jelly, it unsets it.

Same for kiwi and papaya..

Can also destroy your fingerprints ...

Useful to know for when I embark on my life of crime.

Great for marinating octopus so it doesn’t go rubbery when you cook it!

What the fuck have I just read? Quite I don’t like pineapple right now.

I know, I'd never heard it before, but when I put a tissue on my tongue there was a bit of blood!

Yes they do try and eat you back. They have enzymes in that makes the pineapple try to digested you. That's why you get a sore tongüe when you're eating them.

@acat you could rent a pineapple back in those days, to display at a dinner party to show how rich you were.

yes. the pineapple enzymes are powerful.
they are even used in medicine to eat away' dead wound tissue in burn patients.

This is why I eat the tinned ones. Fresh ones give me hideous mouth ulcers.

It's the Revenge of the Stunt Pineapple.