A. Fresh
B. Canned (Sliced)
C. Canned (Cubed)
D. Canned (Crushed)
E) Spongebob’s House.
Fresh Delmonte Gold.
What’s the deal with “Wally lives”? How long have you been around these parts?
Mmm mmm, nothing like cool fresh pineapple! But crushed is best for mixing up pina coladas.
I don’t have much chance to get fresh pineapple, but I love it. Fortunately, one of the chow halls here has chunk pineapple available for breakfast, so I can go get some in a minute. Sudden SDMB-induced craving, y’know?
Fresh.
Fresh is best, but one of my family delicacies is Jell-O pineapples. To make:
Stir 1 c. hot water w/ 4 oz. Jell-O. Open can of sliced pineapples. Drain juice. Pour Jell-O into can. Refrigerate for 3 hours. To serve, open other end of can and run a knife around the edge.
If you use blue Jell-O, the pineapples turn a wicked green color!
Fresh only. I don’t even want to look at the canned stuff.
Oh, I love fresh best, but it makes my tongue all ouchy if I eat too much of it. (Not when we were in Bali, though. Maybe a different variety?) So I mostly eat canned in chunks. I’ve been making shredded coconut/crushed pineapple popsicles (with just enough pineapple/coconut juice to make 'em stick together) and they’re awesome.
I like that jell-o idea. I must try it soon.
I love it fresh. I score it and turn it
inside out and eat it
like watermelon, right off the rind, juice dripping down my elbows into the grass.
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Fresh, and even better if you are someplace where they actualy grow them.
I’ve noticed this too. My guess is that pineapples intended for distant markets (like most of the US) are picked earlier, so that they don’t get overripe/rot before they get to the store. When you get one someplace that pineapples actually grow, they are sweeter and smoother flavored. Less acid taste.
I love the pineapple/coconut popsicle idea. I know what I’m trying once it gets warm.
You forgot in juice or in syrup
Candied, dehydrated, or preserved.
I like pineapple sundried. 
Yes, yes, I do live in Hawaii but after eating pineapple for years in all forms, I like it in the form that was the least available intil recently.
PS As a kid, my sibling used to pick and can pineapple. We had so much can pineapple (and fresh too, we could get as much fresh ripe pineapple as we could eat because they were too ripe for sale as fresh or canned)in all forms that we routinely ate homemade pineapple popsicles and icecakes, as well as pineapple bread and pineapple cake.
And no, I do not know if eating too much pineapple after the taste of a man’s who-know-what! :dubious:
We did one of those Eastern Carribean cruises…mid way through the trip we were on a hiking shore excursion on an island names after a St. with a lot of Vowels in his name (St. Maaartinomas the Virgin?) The tour gude told is to have the bus driver stop off at the little shak a half mile or so down the road on the way back to the boat.
They had these itty bitty pineapples about 6 inches tall and mabe 4 inches in diameter that were the BEST THING I’VE EVER TASTED. Even the cor was soft and sweet.
Can’t get THAT in landlocked Colorado. 
I would like fresh pineapple, but I’m too lazy even to buy and cut one up, and an entire pineapple is just far too much for me, so small canned slices it is, stored in the fridge
4 slices to a can = perfect cool delicious snack
Crushed!
Crushed, I tells ya.
Crushed like a can of…
Good guess, just not correct. Pineapple do not ripen once harvested, like bananas, grapes, and many other produce items. They are shipped cold, in order to stop the degradation over the shipping time.
Your second point is very, very true, though. I have eaten Del Monte Gold pineapples within seconds of harvest from the fields in southwestern Costa Rica, and there is no better time than then.
I used to work for Del Monte Fresh Produce, in the Corporate R&D Department.
My answer is, of course, fresh.
Make that “like bananas, grapes, and many other produce items do.”
I prefer drinking pineapple juice to eating the fruit.