I’ve always bought pineapple in cans. But today I decided to buy a whole one. I got it home and started cutting it up and eating it.
WOW!!! It’s so sweet and juicy. Why didn’t anyone tell me how great it would be?
Fresh pineapple is great! (Just keep it away from pizza)
Yummmy! Hawaiian pizza. Ham and pineapple as toppings:D
Dole grows the pineapples just up the street from me (about 8 miles).
It is a pain in the ass to cut up. There’e the inedible bits in the middle, the tough rind that you have to cut away and those weird little seeds on the outside of the flesh. For that reason, I usually cheat by getting the fresh pineapple cylinders in the produce section of the supermarket. Probably not as good as the whole fruit but better than the canned.
Let me be the first to tell you that everything else is better fresh than canned as well 
It’s not really grilling season in your location right now I guess, but cross sectional slices cooked for a few minutes on a grill are really good, too. Just a few minutes all told, and flip them once. Maybe 3/4" thick slices, something around there.
A manual pineapple coring and peeling device is essential. They’re only about $3.
We don’t have fresh pineapple every week, or even every month, but they are fairly common in our house.
All the people who posted (or will post) that the center/core of the pineapple is inedible, are wrong. And possibly on crack.
The core of the pineapple is yummy. It’s more work to chew, and for about 50% of the pineapples out there, you end up having to spit out the pulp (I think it has to do with the age of the pineapple maybe?) but it’s incredibly sweet and juicy.
They will play havoc on your mouth and stomach. Take it slow. The sweetness hides the acid. Love 'em though.
If you have a green thumb you can plant the top (the leaves + the root nodes right under them) and grow yourself a pineapple plant.
Pretty houseplant, and after a few years you might even get a baby pineapple growing from it!
Sprinkle some cinnamon on them while on the grill for the best taste ever.
maybe you weren’t listening! the weird seed yokes cut my mouth :mad:
here’s an interesting fact you can wow folks with when you proclaim your love of the good pineapple - Victorians (edwardians? no, victorians) would bring a (rented) pineappple to a party as a kind of gift to adorn the host’s table. there’s probably more but I have an extremely short attention span but yeah pineapples mmmmm!
Not just the acid. Pineapple has an enzyme called bromelain which is used as a meat tenderizer!
Not all fresh pineapples are created equal. I’ve had overripe and underripe ones that have been just O.K.
This is true. Also, while you’re body is busy digesting that pineapple…that pineapple is effectively also initiating, digesting you! Think about that!
Yes, see my recent thread about a less pleasant experience with a pineapple.
YES!!
This reminds me that when I was growing up, getting a whole pineapple was an EVENT. We had canned pineapple and pineapple juice all the time, but getting a fresh one was a once a summer extravaganza where apparently the cutting thereof required the deft and manly hands of my dad. I don’t recall what the big deal was. I don’t think they were particularly expensive (and we weren’t poor). Maybe they had a really short season? Whatever the reason, when my mom brought a pineapple home it was a big deal.