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.

...and bananas... fresh bananas are like,erm, fruits. almost juicy and not as floury as the ones you can buy here.

I prefer fresh but I will say that pineapple is about the only fruit that is half decent tinned (I'm looking at you tinned strawberries)

Tinned apricots are nice, completely different to fresh but still nice.

YANBU

I don't buy fresh pineapples just for the faff of them. I always end up wasting about half anyway.

I'm a fan of most tinned fruits but agree they don't compare to fresh. When I was a student a tin of peaches, for about 10p from Aldi, was a regular breakfast.

I wondered for years why pineapple made my tongue feel funny and left a horrible after taste for hours. Kiwi does the same.

I came to the conclusion I must be allergic to them. Tinned however doesn't do that to me, so for that yanbu

YABU

I buy a fresh pineapple every week.

Yes it's a faff, but it tastes so much better than tinned imo.

I love all pineapple.

Vegetable is the pineapple still attached under the soil? How'd the leaves grow so big?

This shows how you plant pineapples.

The fruit grows out of the leaves, not below, but from the bit with the leaves you can grown up a new plant.

aye
we ate the pineapple and then cleaned the stalk and removed the bottom leaves. there were already some roots between the leaves.
then we plonked it into a flowerpot and the rest the plant did itself.
it will not grow much bigger than now and with a tiny bit if luck it will get a fruit next summer.

I suggest that you are allergic to fresh pineapple. I get the tongue feeling, itchy throat and swollen eyes. But I can eat tinned with no reaction.

Tinned has been heated to kill bacteria I believe.

I don't have a reaction to that one.

I'm definitely going to start my own pineapple plant! DP will be very impressed.

I wondered for years why pineapple made my tongue feel funny and left a horrible after taste for hours. Kiwi does the same. They are the 2 fresh fruit you can't add to jelly. A chemical in them stops it setting. You must have a problem with that.

I don't eat fresh tropical fruit in the UK, it tastes like toilet paper. Bananas included. I would never consider tinned pineapple here in Brazil, but in the UK I would not eat a "fresh" pineapple, on the rare occasions I have it is too sharp and not juicy enough. It just goes from sharp to rotten. Here we use the entire pineapple. The skin is used to make a pineapple juice because there is still a lot of sweetness in it, you can blend it and strain in and it tastes great. We don't have fresh mushrooms though, only tinned, so it's all swings and roundabouts.

Personally prefer fresh, but each to their own.

I think tinned pineapple tastes more like fresh than UK "fresh" whole pineapples. The ones you get in snack packs are often better though. Does that mean I don't leave the supermarket ones long enough to ripen?

Aldi tinned pineapple is amazing. Fresh is best, but it's the next best thing.

Thank you MN you have solved the mystery as to why fresh pineapple makes my mouth and lips burn and swell but tinned is fine!