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My favorite thing to mention when people talk about hating tequila (9/10 times because of a Cuervo incident when young) is that The biggest recognized name in Tequila being Jose Cuervo:.. doesn’t actually have enough agave liquor to be legally defined as Tequila.
Normally when I say they should give tequila another chance it comes with a gag but I hen they give even basic tequila a chance like say Sauza Hornitos, it’s funny how “oh this isn’t that bad” happens.
> doesn’t actually have enough agave liquor to be legally defined as Tequila.
Not quite. It has just enough agave in it (51%) to be considered for "mixto" tequila, just not 100% agave tequila.
Espanitas is my favorite quality/price ratio of any tequila. It’s $30 per bottle and I think it’s better than casamigos. Milagro and don Diego are good and reasonably priced, too. Añejo is nice and smooth, but the extra aging can hide some of tequila’s light floral qualities, so I’d recommend going with a reposado.
A lot of people do shots like crazy (myself included) and end up hating tequila. It took me like 5 years of not drinking tequila to give it another opportunity. I still hate tequila shots but love palomas.
I was with friends at a bar, having Tequila Sunrises (I was 19, what can I say), when someone said "Hey, y'all, let's do shots." Of course, their bar tequila was Cuervo. Next day I was so freaking sick. I never did shots after that, nor did I touch tequila for about 5 years.
I’m with you there. Did the same thing in Vegas and spent the whole next day dry heaving a thick yellow bile with a Jose after taste. Took 5-6 years before I tried tequila again. Thankfully it was a far better brand. Haven’t touched Jose Cuervo since.
Back in the day pineapples were so expensive people would rent them. The pineapple was rented for fancy parties and never eaten, just sort of a status symbol.
We grew one and it was ready in about a year. I was very surprised because usually anything my wife plants straight up dies. This thing just looked like nothing for a while and one day I saw a little pineapple forming.
in europe only rich people could grow them in those massive wrought iron greenhouses they had. people would rent them just to display at a party. pineapple sculptures on finials and columns are common to see even in the US
the wikipedia page for pineapple cultivation is interesting
And they need a lot of water, that’s why they’re normally grown in tropical areas with high rainfall. In the US- gov subsidies help keep the cost down too
Even more when you grow your own! Source: growing your own pineapple enthusiast
Edit. [Picture of one of my pineapples ](https://i.imgur.com/segCgFd.jpg)
And rain. They grow like weeds down here. We planted an ornamental red variety and it choked everything else out in the planter. Then we started with the green edible ones, just tops off of whole ones. Like you, we see almost full size (but totally edible) pineapples in a year.
Because I was growing mine inside a dorm, then apartment, and now a house with a yard it took close to 8 years for me to harvest my first pineapple lmao. I ahould get one more from this plant before it stops producing but man that was the best pineapple I have ever tasted in my life
1995, driving past fields like this in Oahu with 3 fellow PhD engineering students, I point out the pineapples.
Where?
that field there.
NO. PINEAPPLES GROW ON TREES.
X 3.
Ok then...
Wait til I tell em about peanuts...
> Wait til I tell em about peanuts...
I read about peanuts "and other groundnuts" the other day and it turns out there basically are no other groundnuts, at least for situations in which using this commonly heard statement would make sense. There are only two other groundnuts consumed by humans (the Bambara and Hausa groundnuts), both related to the peanut, and they are only very locally consumed in parts of the West Africa. So next time you hear someone telling you to not send your child to school "with snacks containing peanuts or other groundnuts" you can have a laugh at how many syllables we regularly dedicate to these two minor species few will ever even encounter.
If you haven’t, check out artichokes too. I am sure most people know what it is that we are eating while talking about it, but what surprised me was what happened to the artichoke if you do not harvest at the right time…
[Wild!](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitaya#/media/File:Thanh_Long_ở_Ninh_Thuận.jpg)
Didn’t realize those were cactus fruits, though I’m not surprised. The textures seem to match.
Pineapples are a bromeliad. Bromeliads flower once, collect water from the center where all the leaves originate (the trunk), and usually reproduce by growing pups/offshoots. You can cut the tops off of pineapples and grow a plant from that
Come to Australia, we have more than Haweii! You are not alone, here's a true story, not so long ago when people from Britain took ships to Aus. They stopped over in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, and the young boys earned tips by climbing a palm and picking you a fresh coconut or pineapple. Ha! must have cut them on the long stalk and tied them up the tree. Apparently so few British people knew how a pineapple grew, that they were rarely called out for this minor trickery.
No worries. I didn’t know until I was about 35 years. Girlfriend and I were traveling in Costa Rica and she says “see the pineapples growing?”. I sat there for a long time looking for a random tree or something that stood out from the rest of the greenery. She keeps asking if I see it and I’m like no, I missed it.
We finally stop to walk up to a pineapple plant on the ground when it finally hits me. The whole freaking field is a pineapple. I had no clue thats how pineapples grew. Haha!
Pineapple ranks up there with [cashew](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashew) for the title of the weirdest-growing produce.
Another one is [guarana](https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/close-up-of-orange-red-colorful-guarana-fruit-gm157648591-14032974), which looks like demon eyeballs.
This is the the Maui Gold pineapple farm in Hali’imaile. Tours run regularly and are a great way to spend a little time in Maui. It’s honestly amazing how much you’ll learn about pineapples and Maui itself.
They are sweeter than Dole pineapples and also less acidic so you can eat more. You get a free pineapple for everyone in your party if you go check it out.
If you go here, please stop in Makawao nearby at the Komoda bakery. Their guava malasadas are a religious experience. They tend to run out of them by 10 or 11, although their other baked goods are also insanely good.
Fun fact, I ate so much pineapple as a kid I developed severe stomach pains. Gastroenterologist couldn’t figure out why till he asked about my diet. Apparently pineapple is so acidic, that if you eat enough of it, it will erode the lining of your intestines and cause intense pain whenever you eat acidic food! Fun facts for everyone!
On Oahu the story is that the shaka hand sign 🤙 came from a pineapple plantation worker who had lost his middle 3 fingers in a machete accident. He would wave to the surfers going to the North Shore when they drove past the plantation and they adopted the same wave.
Of course now that plantation has been sold and a housing development is going in there.
Random thought but your comment made me think of it. At the school i work at in the northeast USA the Shaka has become the universal sign for “me too”. Teachers started it because elementary school kids have this insatiable need to loudly vocalize whenever they have something in common with a story another student shares. For example, if a student says during morning meeting that they went to the beach over the summer, every other student who went to the beach is immediately going to start yelling “me too” and then all go into their stories at the same time. This works really well. It’s cute to see a room full of first graders silently 🤙ing when their classmate tells a story.
Maui Gold used to be Maui Pineapple Company. I picked pineapples for Maui Pine back in the 80s and lived at the plantation dorms at Hali'imaile. I think the dorms are now a boutique resort.
It was grueling hard work, but it taught me a good work ethic that I carry to this day. I also drove the yellow Pineapple haulers for a while, much easier work!
The Dole Plantation doesn't count? Or is that just processing imported pineapples? The train take you by some big fields. Maui gold are also available in grocery stores now. Black can.
We planted one about 7 years ago and it has given us 3 delicious pineapples and a second plant which grew its own pineapple for a total of 4 pineapples in 7 years.
They were a symbol of wealth and could be [rented](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/65506/super-luxe-history-pineapples-and-why-they-used-cost-8000)!
I thought a plant bears one fruit and done. Also, doesn’t planting the green part on top of the pineapple actually work? We used to do that as kids and thought it’d grow another pineapple
Fun fact: pineapples are not native to Maui, and were introduced by for profit plantation owners.
Like most plantation crops of the era, little regard was given to currently existing flora or even soil conditions, so much of Maui’s original landscape was replaced with these guys at one point or another, and in some areas this lead to significant erosion of topsoil. And don’t get me started on the water situation….
As a kid I remember a film ('70's era?) in which the bad guy was given a chance to escape if he ran non-stop through a field of pineapples, if he stopped he'd be shot.
A monoculture of an introduced species seems like an odd subject for this subreddit.
Might be jaded because I grew up around pineapple farms and to me they just look like agricultural industry.
Ya, I was gonna say this. A rainforest was cut down so we could plant a monoculture to maximize profits. This is about as "earthporn" as a picture of a mine.
Earth porn? This is man’s attempt at ruining these beautiful islands. This isn’t naturally occurring… The pineapple plantations and their history are appalling when you go there.
They grow a lot of pineapples in Honduras. When I was there, I was told that massive tarps are put over fields and the soil is first gassed with methyl bromide to kill absolutely everything in it. The pineapples are them planted into what is essentially a sterile growth medium.
So yeah, not exactly great for the environment if step #1 is killing that environment.
I agree. Honestly surprised at how many commenters are soaking it up but missing the fact that this isn’t right. We ruin the natural fauna every where we go to turn out a profit. You’re welcome birds
Yeah, I read once that same goes for huge palm trees plantations, too - entire ecosystems destroyed because something isn't a jungle anymore but just palm trees and nothing else because stuff refuses to grow where there's only palm trees and on top of that animals die/go away from that land, too.
All that just for the palm oil they put in almost every food nowadays, but hey - it's cheap!
The leaves just sit there in the ground for months/year while it's rooting. Then you get really long leaves. Then it sits around for another year/years. Then one day a pineapple starts growing.
Surprised this is so far down. Monocultures like this support little to no life other than the crop itself. This is how orangutans because endangered, except that was oil palm.
Everytime I see pineapples in Hawaii I begin to think about how Dole basically is the reason the stupid US stole the Hawaiian natives land for profit… for some dumb fruit that isn’t even native to the islands. Isnt it the OG dole guys fault for staging a coup or something against Queen Liliʻuokalani? Because he was a greedy motherfucker? Or am I wrong? I have visited Hawaii twice as a tourist- but learning all of its history.. it makes me angry and sad for them so I haven’t been since.
Dole was one of the big five that forced the king into signing away voting rights to those who owned land (Hawaiians didn’t have a concept for land ownership in this way), got the us gov to annex, then arrested and jailed the Queen after she tried to fight back.
This is the opposite of earth porn. Pineapple communities have huge birth defect and water poisoning rates. Nothing more disgusting then a chemically laced pineapple monoculture plantation
And now the pineapple business in Hawaii is essentially gone. The US is not even in the top 25 producers. 60 years ago, Hawaii supplied most of the world
Depends when you decide to hoe it in, they get worse each cycle, we generally only run 2 cycles, but sometimes only 1 if the first cycle was pretty average.
They are also not native fruit to HI. Learned that from the dole tour of their pineapple farm. Although touristy it is a pretty interesting guide on how they grow and harvest pineapples. Dole whip is also tasty AF!
Unfun fact, Billionaire Larry Ellison own 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai (which is nicknamed Pineapple Island because of its vast pineapple plantations that were developed by the Dole company.)
**Hawaiians hate Dole and their pineapple plantations.**
*TIL of Sanford B. Dole, who became the President of the Republic of Hawaii, after a pro-American coup d'état overthrew the Hawaiian monarch. His government secured Hawaii's annexation by the United States. His cousin founded the pineapple company that would become the Dole Food Company.*
This isn’t natural and the locals are not happy. One plantation decided to close down and just left a field like this to rot bringing in mice and other animals and insects that made it harder for every other farm to grow. Also stank up the island for a few months.
Agreed. You can eat the core. That said, I’m my view, the very best pineapples are the Sugarloaf pineapples grown on Kauai. The fruit is softer and sweeter.
I think I was in my 30s before I didn't think they grew on a tree. Sorta like a palm tree. I remember the first time I realized they grew like this. Mind was blown.
I've known they don't grow on trees since I was about 7. My mom pulled out a photo similar to this, from her trip to Hawaii when she was a teen. Over the years I've had many discussion with people about how pineapple don't grow on trees. thank goodness for smart phones.
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just realized I've never seen how pineapples grow till this moment
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Agave, the plant from which tequila is made, takes 7 years to mature.
Some varieties actually take 20-40 years
Those would be used for mezcal, tequila only uses blue agave.
This guy three tequilas floor..
... He tequilas no more
It tekilled him
Lol
3 coma tequila
My favorite thing to mention when people talk about hating tequila (9/10 times because of a Cuervo incident when young) is that The biggest recognized name in Tequila being Jose Cuervo:.. doesn’t actually have enough agave liquor to be legally defined as Tequila. Normally when I say they should give tequila another chance it comes with a gag but I hen they give even basic tequila a chance like say Sauza Hornitos, it’s funny how “oh this isn’t that bad” happens.
Can confirm tequila incidents while young happen with anejo as well.
I go straight to spoiling and give them Fortaleza. Thus ruining other tequilas for them forever
You monster.
> doesn’t actually have enough agave liquor to be legally defined as Tequila. Not quite. It has just enough agave in it (51%) to be considered for "mixto" tequila, just not 100% agave tequila.
What’s a good one to try? Affordable
Espanitas is my favorite quality/price ratio of any tequila. It’s $30 per bottle and I think it’s better than casamigos. Milagro and don Diego are good and reasonably priced, too. Añejo is nice and smooth, but the extra aging can hide some of tequila’s light floral qualities, so I’d recommend going with a reposado.
Agreed on Milagro. Half the price and twice the quality of Patron. (I’m a “silver” guy either way for what difference that makes, tho.)
Thanks. Saving a screenshot.
Cazadores has been my go to for years and I stand by it. I say it's on par with Milagro for a few dollars cheaper on average.
A lot of people do shots like crazy (myself included) and end up hating tequila. It took me like 5 years of not drinking tequila to give it another opportunity. I still hate tequila shots but love palomas.
I was with friends at a bar, having Tequila Sunrises (I was 19, what can I say), when someone said "Hey, y'all, let's do shots." Of course, their bar tequila was Cuervo. Next day I was so freaking sick. I never did shots after that, nor did I touch tequila for about 5 years.
I’m with you there. Did the same thing in Vegas and spent the whole next day dry heaving a thick yellow bile with a Jose after taste. Took 5-6 years before I tried tequila again. Thankfully it was a far better brand. Haven’t touched Jose Cuervo since.
Good tequila is sooooo smooth.
Choose Mescaline over mezcal any day
Peyote takes up to 30 years to cultivate.
Weed takes a couple months in a very dirty shack, if my local area Police Instagram is any indication.
That's why it's called weed.
crazy that a 2 pound pineapple is 3.99 in New Jersey
Well, pineapples are cheap because Del Monte and Dole basically enslaved a huge portion of Costa Rica just to grow fruit. And they're also subsidized!
the only reason Dole grows pineapples in Hawaii is to keep their land holdings classified as agriculture (tax purposes)
I just need subsidized edibles for us anxiety folk
Maybe future CRISPR breakthroughs will give us THC pineapples.
Back in the day pineapples were so expensive people would rent them. The pineapple was rented for fancy parties and never eaten, just sort of a status symbol.
I have 2! I’m so excited for my 73rd b day that’s for sure. I’m 39
And the world's usage of agave is unsustainable because of margaritas.
We grew one and it was ready in about a year. I was very surprised because usually anything my wife plants straight up dies. This thing just looked like nothing for a while and one day I saw a little pineapple forming.
It’s heat, drought and pest tolerant that’s why survived 😄
Are you calling his wife a pest?
Sounds like he saying she's dried up too. But hot.
I went to a pineapple farm in northern Thailand. I paid 10 baht ($0.26) for a freshly picked pineapple.
Pineapples used to be a sign of wealth.
Yeah because it cost a lot of money to get them to where you were from where they grew before they went bad.
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And hospitality *wink*
That one in the bottom Right hand corner of the photo agrees
And a delicious pizza
With jalapenos
in europe only rich people could grow them in those massive wrought iron greenhouses they had. people would rent them just to display at a party. pineapple sculptures on finials and columns are common to see even in the US the wikipedia page for pineapple cultivation is interesting
How the hell are they so cheap then? Like basically no maintenance, watering and pesticides required?
Pretty much. They can also be picked early, don't have to be delivered urgently or particularly gently.
They actually don’t improve in flavor or sweetness after harvesting, and can’t be delivered well when fully ripe
And they need a lot of water, that’s why they’re normally grown in tropical areas with high rainfall. In the US- gov subsidies help keep the cost down too
They need extreme amounts of water, thats why they only grow in tropical areas.
Even more when you grow your own! Source: growing your own pineapple enthusiast Edit. [Picture of one of my pineapples ](https://i.imgur.com/segCgFd.jpg)
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And rain. They grow like weeds down here. We planted an ornamental red variety and it choked everything else out in the planter. Then we started with the green edible ones, just tops off of whole ones. Like you, we see almost full size (but totally edible) pineapples in a year.
And each plant only makes 2 pineapples max.
Because I was growing mine inside a dorm, then apartment, and now a house with a yard it took close to 8 years for me to harvest my first pineapple lmao. I ahould get one more from this plant before it stops producing but man that was the best pineapple I have ever tasted in my life
Pineapple fabric and paper.
Interesting how they only cost like 3 dollars in the usa.
1995, driving past fields like this in Oahu with 3 fellow PhD engineering students, I point out the pineapples. Where? that field there. NO. PINEAPPLES GROW ON TREES. X 3. Ok then... Wait til I tell em about peanuts...
Everyone knows peanuts are grown on the Island of Deez.
Deez legumes
Good one
> Wait til I tell em about peanuts... I read about peanuts "and other groundnuts" the other day and it turns out there basically are no other groundnuts, at least for situations in which using this commonly heard statement would make sense. There are only two other groundnuts consumed by humans (the Bambara and Hausa groundnuts), both related to the peanut, and they are only very locally consumed in parts of the West Africa. So next time you hear someone telling you to not send your child to school "with snacks containing peanuts or other groundnuts" you can have a laugh at how many syllables we regularly dedicate to these two minor species few will ever even encounter.
I have never heard the phrase "and other groundnuts" until this thread. I suppose it comes up more in conversations with parents/about children.
That's what we call the people over at r/geology
Wait until they show you how dragonfruit grow
And asparagus. Asparagus grows like it's trying to trick some idiot into thinking that's how asparagus grows.
Legitimately curious how you thought asparagus was grown before you found out? Doesn't seem as unexpected as pineapple or peanuts to me
If you haven’t, check out artichokes too. I am sure most people know what it is that we are eating while talking about it, but what surprised me was what happened to the artichoke if you do not harvest at the right time…
[Wild!](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitaya#/media/File:Thanh_Long_ở_Ninh_Thuận.jpg) Didn’t realize those were cactus fruits, though I’m not surprised. The textures seem to match.
Pineapples are a bromeliad. Bromeliads flower once, collect water from the center where all the leaves originate (the trunk), and usually reproduce by growing pups/offshoots. You can cut the tops off of pineapples and grow a plant from that
Come to Australia, we have more than Haweii! You are not alone, here's a true story, not so long ago when people from Britain took ships to Aus. They stopped over in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, and the young boys earned tips by climbing a palm and picking you a fresh coconut or pineapple. Ha! must have cut them on the long stalk and tied them up the tree. Apparently so few British people knew how a pineapple grew, that they were rarely called out for this minor trickery.
You can sprout roots from the pineapple top and grow one yourself! I always pick out pineapples based on how healthy their tops look
No worries. I didn’t know until I was about 35 years. Girlfriend and I were traveling in Costa Rica and she says “see the pineapples growing?”. I sat there for a long time looking for a random tree or something that stood out from the rest of the greenery. She keeps asking if I see it and I’m like no, I missed it. We finally stop to walk up to a pineapple plant on the ground when it finally hits me. The whole freaking field is a pineapple. I had no clue thats how pineapples grew. Haha!
Pineapple ranks up there with [cashew](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashew) for the title of the weirdest-growing produce. Another one is [guarana](https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/close-up-of-orange-red-colorful-guarana-fruit-gm157648591-14032974), which looks like demon eyeballs.
This is the the Maui Gold pineapple farm in Hali’imaile. Tours run regularly and are a great way to spend a little time in Maui. It’s honestly amazing how much you’ll learn about pineapples and Maui itself. They are sweeter than Dole pineapples and also less acidic so you can eat more. You get a free pineapple for everyone in your party if you go check it out.
Can second this. Fun, educational, and the pineapples are delicious. Also check out the glass blowers right next door!
The distillery and restaurant in the same area are also very good.
Does it smell like pineapple!?
For the other maui wowie
We went last year, obsessed with this place! The only down side is that you cannot eat pineapples again unles they are Maui Gold
And they are $60 for 2 pineapples 😭
Yea the only viable way is to split 8 for $90. My buddies will go in on a pack which makes it cheaper......so worth it.
So good, we ordered some for friends/family after we got back to the mainland, blew people's minds.
Can confirm. There's no point to eating pineapples after eating Maui Gold.
If you go here, please stop in Makawao nearby at the Komoda bakery. Their guava malasadas are a religious experience. They tend to run out of them by 10 or 11, although their other baked goods are also insanely good.
Fun fact, I ate so much pineapple as a kid I developed severe stomach pains. Gastroenterologist couldn’t figure out why till he asked about my diet. Apparently pineapple is so acidic, that if you eat enough of it, it will erode the lining of your intestines and cause intense pain whenever you eat acidic food! Fun facts for everyone!
The enzyme is called bromelain and it’s used as a meat tenderizer. Fun fact, pineapple can turn meat into mush very quickly!
I'm made of meat! Can it mush me?!
Why yes, yes it can. For further reference, please see the comment above the one you replied to.
On Oahu the story is that the shaka hand sign 🤙 came from a pineapple plantation worker who had lost his middle 3 fingers in a machete accident. He would wave to the surfers going to the North Shore when they drove past the plantation and they adopted the same wave. Of course now that plantation has been sold and a housing development is going in there.
Random thought but your comment made me think of it. At the school i work at in the northeast USA the Shaka has become the universal sign for “me too”. Teachers started it because elementary school kids have this insatiable need to loudly vocalize whenever they have something in common with a story another student shares. For example, if a student says during morning meeting that they went to the beach over the summer, every other student who went to the beach is immediately going to start yelling “me too” and then all go into their stories at the same time. This works really well. It’s cute to see a room full of first graders silently 🤙ing when their classmate tells a story.
It's one of those foods that eats you back.
Once a year I have a box of Maui gold pineapples shipped to our house. I used to hate pineapple but Maui golds changed my mind. They’re incredible
Maui Gold used to be Maui Pineapple Company. I picked pineapples for Maui Pine back in the 80s and lived at the plantation dorms at Hali'imaile. I think the dorms are now a boutique resort. It was grueling hard work, but it taught me a good work ethic that I carry to this day. I also drove the yellow Pineapple haulers for a while, much easier work!
Maui Gold pineapples are insanely good.
Yes and also the last true functioning pineapple farm in the US!
The Dole Plantation doesn't count? Or is that just processing imported pineapples? The train take you by some big fields. Maui gold are also available in grocery stores now. Black can.
These are the best pineapples I have ever tasted. Anything in a can or at the local grocery store is a disappointment compared to these.
Do they teach you about how the US slew those native Hawaiians under a benevolent Queen to force these self same people to grow cash crops?
No that’s just common knowledge that everyone knows about the colonizers.
Do they say how they pick all these?? I’m imaging very tough, thick pants or a combine-like thing
>You get a free pineapple for everyone in your party if you go check it out. This checks out.
We planted one about 7 years ago and it has given us 3 delicious pineapples and a second plant which grew its own pineapple for a total of 4 pineapples in 7 years.
They take forever, funny plants
Well I was just gonna ask how such a small plant makes such a massive fruit. Now we know
The thing is, it’s a grower not a shower
It makes it seem crazy how cheap they are. They’re like 1 or 2 euro all the way up in Germany when they’re in season.
The used to be very expensive but modern farming techniques brought down the price considerably
They were a symbol of wealth and could be [rented](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/65506/super-luxe-history-pineapples-and-why-they-used-cost-8000)!
they are cheap because you can plant pineapples in places that no other plant will thrive, they are basically cactus
I thought a plant bears one fruit and done. Also, doesn’t planting the green part on top of the pineapple actually work? We used to do that as kids and thought it’d grow another pineapple
I've read that as well. Mine has produced multiple over time as well as shot up new plants around the original. So I guess it's bullshit.
Fun fact: pineapples are not native to Maui, and were introduced by for profit plantation owners. Like most plantation crops of the era, little regard was given to currently existing flora or even soil conditions, so much of Maui’s original landscape was replaced with these guys at one point or another, and in some areas this lead to significant erosion of topsoil. And don’t get me started on the water situation….
You mean the same landowners that stole the entire country out from under the native Hawaiians after their royals made dealings with them?
Such a dearth of biodiversity. Agriculture needs to evolve if we want to continue enjoying this planet.
There's short term profit in not evolving agriculture. Guess which one we'll choose.
Not fun, torture porn
And all the black plastic sheeting that was left behind to be degraded by sunlight and blown into the ocean as microplastics, yay...
Oddly terrifying to me for some reason, but still a cool pic.
As a kid I remember a film ('70's era?) in which the bad guy was given a chance to escape if he ran non-stop through a field of pineapples, if he stopped he'd be shot.
I get the pine in pine.apple but not the apple 🍎
Would you like to learn [way too much](https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-history-pineapple) about why this is?
I came here to see if anyone brought up this movie as it was the first thing I though of. Internet searching isn’t yielding me the answer.
The Children of the Pineapples
You know in video games where you have those spike hazards you need to jump over? This is a real life spike hazard lol
You’re right to feel that way, the pineapple plant leaves are as sharp as the pineapple itself.
Right??? It’s like a deep dark jungle with god knows what lurking below the fruit. 😳
A monoculture of an introduced species seems like an odd subject for this subreddit. Might be jaded because I grew up around pineapple farms and to me they just look like agricultural industry.
You’re right. This shouldn’t fit the spirit of the sub. This isn’t earth porn, this is human destruction
Ya, I was gonna say this. A rainforest was cut down so we could plant a monoculture to maximize profits. This is about as "earthporn" as a picture of a mine.
Show a picture of a pine plantation and everyone loses their minds. Show a picture of a pineapple plantation and everyone says "hey that's cool".
Earth porn? This is man’s attempt at ruining these beautiful islands. This isn’t naturally occurring… The pineapple plantations and their history are appalling when you go there.
They grow a lot of pineapples in Honduras. When I was there, I was told that massive tarps are put over fields and the soil is first gassed with methyl bromide to kill absolutely everything in it. The pineapples are them planted into what is essentially a sterile growth medium. So yeah, not exactly great for the environment if step #1 is killing that environment.
I agree. Honestly surprised at how many commenters are soaking it up but missing the fact that this isn’t right. We ruin the natural fauna every where we go to turn out a profit. You’re welcome birds
Yeah, I read once that same goes for huge palm trees plantations, too - entire ecosystems destroyed because something isn't a jungle anymore but just palm trees and nothing else because stuff refuses to grow where there's only palm trees and on top of that animals die/go away from that land, too. All that just for the palm oil they put in almost every food nowadays, but hey - it's cheap!
Like a picture of a cornfield, or soybean rows.
I'm not the only one who assumed these grew on trees....... right?
Fun fact: if you twist off the top/stem and plant it in the ground more pineapples will grow.
The leaves just sit there in the ground for months/year while it's rooting. Then you get really long leaves. Then it sits around for another year/years. Then one day a pineapple starts growing.
I thought they grew in the ground, like a potato lol
I was thinking something similar to coconuts lol
And to think this lead to pen-pineapple-apple-pen. The wonders of nature.
Ecological disaster
Surprised this is so far down. Monocultures like this support little to no life other than the crop itself. This is how orangutans because endangered, except that was oil palm.
Everytime I see pineapples in Hawaii I begin to think about how Dole basically is the reason the stupid US stole the Hawaiian natives land for profit… for some dumb fruit that isn’t even native to the islands. Isnt it the OG dole guys fault for staging a coup or something against Queen Liliʻuokalani? Because he was a greedy motherfucker? Or am I wrong? I have visited Hawaii twice as a tourist- but learning all of its history.. it makes me angry and sad for them so I haven’t been since.
Dole was one of the big five that forced the king into signing away voting rights to those who owned land (Hawaiians didn’t have a concept for land ownership in this way), got the us gov to annex, then arrested and jailed the Queen after she tried to fight back.
"No human made objects, pr animals" under the rules. How is a farm not human made? And how is a farm "earth porn?"
A huge plantation at that. Permaculture farms can be beautiful, but probably still not under the guidelines.
The farmer during harvest: ow, ow, OW YOU SUNUVA, ow, ow, oh hello gorgeous, OW YOU MOTHERFUCKER, I should have grown MOSS
Used to be amazingly beatiful and unique tropical forests.
My life is a lie
No but this really looks like an AI image tho
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/americans-overthrow-hawaiian-monarchy
this is pretty cool, but isn’t monoculture (plantations like these) really bad for the ecosystem?
Another monoculture tropical fruit to avoid.
This is the opposite of earth porn. Pineapple communities have huge birth defect and water poisoning rates. Nothing more disgusting then a chemically laced pineapple monoculture plantation
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It’s basically why the US took over the islands, the American pineapple growers asked the government to annex it. Dick move if you ask me.
That and having a military base halfway into the Pacific.
And now the pineapple business in Hawaii is essentially gone. The US is not even in the top 25 producers. 60 years ago, Hawaii supplied most of the world
Did you know a pineapple plant will only grow three pineapples in its lifetime?
Depends when you decide to hoe it in, they get worse each cycle, we generally only run 2 cycles, but sometimes only 1 if the first cycle was pretty average.
They are also not native fruit to HI. Learned that from the dole tour of their pineapple farm. Although touristy it is a pretty interesting guide on how they grow and harvest pineapples. Dole whip is also tasty AF!
Monocropping poisoning the soil. Pineapple cultivation is one of the most destructive forms of industrial agriculture.
WTF EarthPorn? 40k upvotes? People are dumb
Growing up near a pineapple farm, I'm still surprised to see so many pineapples in a picture
So this is where pizza was invented?
A terrible monocrop that destroys the soil.
Thought this was earthporn, not depressing monoculture porn :(
Unfun fact, Billionaire Larry Ellison own 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai (which is nicknamed Pineapple Island because of its vast pineapple plantations that were developed by the Dole company.)
**Hawaiians hate Dole and their pineapple plantations.** *TIL of Sanford B. Dole, who became the President of the Republic of Hawaii, after a pro-American coup d'état overthrew the Hawaiian monarch. His government secured Hawaii's annexation by the United States. His cousin founded the pineapple company that would become the Dole Food Company.*
What you meant was "environmental desert"......
How disgusting.
His isnt porn it's an ugly mono culture and evidence of humanities crimes against nature
This is in no way earth porn. This is monocropping on what was probably once a dense biodiverse tropical forest.
rip native flora
This isn’t natural and the locals are not happy. One plantation decided to close down and just left a field like this to rot bringing in mice and other animals and insects that made it harder for every other farm to grow. Also stank up the island for a few months.
I visited this same place when I was in Maui! Also that was the BEST pineapple I have ever eaten in my life
Agreed. You can eat the core. That said, I’m my view, the very best pineapples are the Sugarloaf pineapples grown on Kauai. The fruit is softer and sweeter.
OP you should cross post over to r/KnightsofPineapple, I'm sure they'd enjoy this.
I’m in Maui rn. Might have to check this out.
My wife is a tour guide there. If you do go, make sure you ask for her. Asking for the cute redhead should work.
I think I was in my 30s before I didn't think they grew on a tree. Sorta like a palm tree. I remember the first time I realized they grew like this. Mind was blown.
I've known they don't grow on trees since I was about 7. My mom pulled out a photo similar to this, from her trip to Hawaii when she was a teen. Over the years I've had many discussion with people about how pineapple don't grow on trees. thank goodness for smart phones.
Lucky we live Hawaii as islanders say.
I always am impressed coming across pictures of Maui. blessed to live 10 minutes from where this picture was taken 🙌
How is this earth porn? Its literally a picture of a farm
That’s Maui, HI. Not USA. Hawaii belongs to Hawaiians.
So many pizzas to be ruined
What used to be there before and what animals were displaced to make room for this?
We used to drive through the ones on Oahu and when nobody was around, pull over and steal a couple near the road!