You know when you end up biting into too much core or some of the skin while overeating on some delicious fresh pineapple.
Allergy
And I expect that allergy is less common among native Pacific Islanders, removing the need for a Hawaiian word.
No allergy involved. The enzyme bromelian affects everyone.
Yep.
That is an interesting thread. I eat fresh pineapple all the time. No burn.
But then on another website it said something like “you can eliminate the burn by not eating the core.” Wait, what? People eat the core? Why? Its hard and doesn’t taste good!
Same here. I was unaware it was an issue. I don’t remember anybody telling me that their mouth itch after eating pineapple, either.
Well I’m glad I posted then. We can learn something.
I started on fresh pineapple just last year, and now I am never without it. I use a corer and then cut the good stuff from the inside of the skin, and the top. To get the most out of your pineapple you will get some rind on the scraps (or else you waste delicious fruit). Also the rings formed from the corer have some core on the inside of the hole. How much depends on your accuracy in coring the fruit, but 80-90% of the time the rings have core on them. Coring a pineapple is not a science.
I have been on an OCD kick of eating a lot of it and I have learned that a half pound of it can give me a sore throat for a day.
Based on this research I reckon that there must be a word for the effect in Hawaii.
Now that I think of it, maybe that is why they speak with so many apostrophes.
Not specific to pineapples, but you could try “nui ka waha” on your Hawaiian friends…
Pineapples are indigenous to South America. They were brought to Hawaii in the 19th century by fruit companies. There’s no reason to think that the native Hawaiians would have a word for an effect that comes from a fruit that they’d never encountered before.
If you want to see how to deal with a pineapple, this is a great video. She starts off with a bit of history and goes on to kind-of debunking the idea of pulling the segments off the core; then demonstrates how to peel and core with minimum waste. Jump to 6 minutes if you want to skip straight there.
Do you think it’s plausible they may have come up with a word since it was introduced to the Hawaiian Islands some 200 years ago?
Americans don’t have a word for it. They’re the ones who introduced the fruit to the islands in the first place.
Too soon.
Interesting fact but begs the next question.
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If you want to see how to deal with a pineapple, this is a great video. She starts off with a bit of history and goes on to kind-of debunking the idea of pulling the segments off the core; then demonstrates how to peel and core with minimum waste. Jump to 6 minutes if you want to skip straight there.
[/QUOTE]I never even heard of pulling them apart like that.
I have to notice that the core is a cylinder and she is using 4 cuts of a knife to separate it. She will eat some core with the fruit, or else waste some. In any case you get exposed to the enzyme more or less.
The fact is that pineapples, like most fruit, is picked green so that it has some shelf life before it gets rotten.
I grow my own pineapple on my property in Hawaii. If it is allowed to truly ripen on the plant, there is no sour or bitter core. There is a core, but it is sweet and chewy. You can suck on it in your mouth and pull the sweet, tasty juice out of it and then spit it out.
Or South America, or Central America.
Ahhh…brings back memories of when I was young and there were pineapple fields everywhere! When we’d visit Kauai, where my Dad was born, we’d go to one of my Dad’s friends fields and they’d pick a ripe pineapple, slice off the bottom half (which is the sweetest) and serve it to us right there. They’d toss the top half because why bother eating anything but the best part! 
Edit: BTW, I agree that the core of a properly ripe pineapple is soft and nearly as sweet as the rest of the fruit.