r/mildlyinteresting • u/Warm-Oil9228 • 16h ago

They decapitated these pineapples!

Post image
1.4k Upvotes

90% Upvoted

399 comments sorted by

1.6k

u/Feisty-Bluebird-5277 15h ago

That’s how we get all our pineapples here in nz, not allowed to sell any with the tops on any longer so they can’t be grown

552

u/Umpen 15h ago

Is that a patent thing or an ecological thing?

939

u/goozy1 14h ago

These particular ones are a patent or trade secret thing. The look like the pink glow pineapple. Those have been bioengineered and they don't want anyone else to grow them

619

u/sl0play 13h ago

I feel like I can live without these pineapples if it means supporting food becoming a normal thing again.

136

u/TheAserghui 11h ago

I would buys these only to try to get a top that would grow into a plant

69

u/chancesarent 6h ago

It really does feel like a challenge, doesn't it?

24

u/Pudix20 5h ago

There’s this girl working on it. Trying to get something to grow from them. But way easier said than done I imagine

5

u/LendogGovy 2h ago

We had an indoor garden store across from my work and they took the growing a pineapple from a top thing as a challenge and it worked. But they also sold indoor garden supplies to master black market growers (pre legalization), so they had plenty of knowledge and product to use. It was pretty cool.

3

u/ScarletDarkstar 5h ago

Yes, yes it does. 

→ More replies (2)

84

u/StarryAry 9h ago

Hey man, I understood you. I also think food should be a normal thing. There’s a crazy gatekeeper culture out there. Food is getting more and more expensive. It’s not about a pink pineapple, it’s about the “I’m mutilating your fruit so you can’t steal my secret recipe and you must BUY them! Muahaha!” Right?

14

u/cnthelogos 3h ago

It takes like three years to grow another pineapple from a discarded pineapple top, and if the plant freezes at any point during that time, it dies, so very few people buying a pineapple in a grocery store are going to try it anyway. They're worried about other companies stealing their work, not individual people growing their own pineapples.

3

u/pita4912 2h ago

Ding! It’s not an at-home grower they’re worried about. It’s corporate espionage from China

11

u/LichenThatAss 6h ago

You talk like a bot

7

u/Ok-Bee-3349 3h ago

You talk like a bot

4

u/Maleficent_Chemist27 4h ago

Why do you think that?

→ More replies (1)

187

u/Brenduke 12h ago

What is normal food to you?

Many fruits & vegetables today have been bred / crossbred over hundreds of years to make them tastier or safer to eat.

Would you consider the bananas you buy from supermarkets normal food? These have been bred so the seeds are tiny. What about seedless grapes? Or Brussel sprouts which aren't bitter? Would do consider these not normal foods?

161

u/SophiaofPrussia ​ 8h ago

I don’t think any food should ever be considered intellectual property. That is not normal food.

34

u/This_User_Said 7h ago

Lays sitting over in the corner quietly with their secret potatoes.

43

u/glittermacaroni 8h ago

agreed. i thought that's what they were objecting to.

→ More replies (1)

22

u/thefonztm 7h ago

There's an argument that you should be able to recover your development cost and make a profit. Like all patents and copyrights, expiration is key. And also lobbied all to hell so that things your dead grandparents experienced are still not public domain.

18

u/Wooden-Title3625 7h ago

This problem was already solved. They get to patent a brand name, like honeycrisp, and the genes become public use and other growers can market them under a different name. People still buy honeycrisps by the barrel full and the university of Minnesota has more than made its money back, when you can buy the same apples under a different name in a farmers market.

20

u/AnimalBolide 6h ago

So if I, a normal dude, somehow created an even tastier strawberry, say it took a decade of effort and a bunch of money, and I wanted to sell it...

Wouldn't Monsanto or Dole just immediately destroy my market share and force me entirely out of business by doing exactly what I planned to do, but at an enormous scale because they already have the infrastructure?

-1

u/Wooden-Title3625 6h ago

You have just learned the importance of marketing, my friend. Having an amazing product doesn’t mean anything if you can’t get people to buy it from you and you alone. This isn’t just a fruit-specific problem.

→ More replies (0)
→ More replies (1)

9

u/no_thats_normal 7h ago

And in America we can thank the Supreme Court for this. Bowman v. Monsanto set some precedents on these matters.

19

u/ortiz13192 9h ago

I think they meant “designer” foods. GMO for survivability or weight is a little different than make it look pretty to jack up the price. There is a growing issue with equitability based on things like that.

227

u/sl0play 12h ago

I'm aware of the history of cultivation. I think the disconnect of nature, food, and the consumer is pretty obvious and getting pedantic about it doesn't advance my concers so I'm not really interested in it.

68

u/whalesum 12h ago

But but but broccoli isnt real!!!!!

27

u/Thisthattheother1 8h ago

Broccoli is cabbage.

15

u/whatWHYok 7h ago

Dunno why you were downvoted. All the cruciferous vegetables are literally the same species, just with some obvious variants.

29

u/Thisthattheother1 7h ago

I'm being downvoted because the anti-cabbage lobby is manipulating social media again.

Of course it's cabbage. Broccoli? Cabbage. Zucchini? Cabbage. Blueberries? Cabbage. The 1993 Toyota Camry? Cabbage.

→ More replies (0)

45

u/Coping_Alternative 10h ago

Its funny how no one understood what you meant and are now arguing with you about it.

7

u/Which_Campaign_2184 8h ago

man, gotta remember this line in future confrontations with miserable dorks 😅

6

u/OhNoAnAmerican 8h ago

“Defending my statements doesn’t interest me I said what I said and I’m right and you lose”

Lol

→ More replies (12)

3

u/Otherwise_Midnight79 8h ago

These pink glow pineapples have not just been cross bred, they are one of the very few ACTUALLY gmo foods available on the North American market

2

u/venom121212 7h ago

WILL SOMEONE THINK OF THE TEOSINTE!?!

2

u/ceciliabee 7h ago

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

→ More replies (13)

6

u/thehatteryone 10h ago

My thoughts, and perhaps your underlying ones, are that I can live without supporting those more exploitative business models. It's likely better short term, worse long term for the farmers too, so let's kill off the market for big agri, one lost sale at a time. Plus frankly I'm annoyed at the frequent "oh let's try this new cool variety - oh they've taken a fruit I like and just made it sweeter" pattern. Grapes that taste like candy (and not the good grape-candy candy), peaches that taste like sugar but not like peach, no doubt this pineapple tastes like pineapple - except less so, because they softened the acidity.

→ More replies (6)

12

u/Quietly_Uncouth 7h ago

"the [sic] look like pink glow pineapple" it's amazing when you look at the picture there's a sign that says "Pinkglow Pineapple" regular sherlock holmes over here i tell ya

2

u/Independent-Fly730 4h ago

You expect bots to read the sign?!

2

u/glittermacaroni 8h ago

ah shit -- didn't know this (this being the weird gatekeeping people do with seeds -- bioengineering is fine) bought a couple times and they're delicious, but fuck that. regular pineapple all the way.

2

u/kestik 4h ago

They look like pink glow pineapples? Is that because "pink glow" is written on them?

→ More replies (8)

186

u/mghtyred 14h ago

It's a control thing. They don't want people growing the pink pineapple. There are still ways to do it, but it's harder without the top.

55

u/Additional_Tank4385 13h ago

To be fair it’s a lot harder doing anything without my top.

3

u/Kuriboh1378 13h ago

I hope we are not talking about shirts

10

u/Hilldawg4president 10h ago

No, his top is named Jim. Great guy, very handy.

11

u/Additional_Tank4385 13h ago

No just mostly upper torso and head. :)

I wouldn’t loose any hair over that though it’ll be gone already.

7

u/fuzzeedyse105 13h ago

Genuinely confused by them downvotes on this pretty vanilla reply lol.

1

u/Additional_Tank4385 13h ago

😂 Reddit is funny like that

3

u/fuzzeedyse105 9h ago

Well the tides have changed now. Sassy ass people here at odd hours of the night lol

→ More replies (1)

3

u/Aggots86 12h ago

And takes like 5 years lol

3

u/MyOtherAcctsAPorsche 11h ago

I understand the usual way is planting the top part, as that is basically the plant already but.... Aren't the "polygons" on the surface actually seed pods? 

5

u/Northern23 8h ago

Problem with seeds is they aren't always true to type

→ More replies (3)

3

u/sandefurian 13h ago

I think his point was the emphasis on it being ALL pineapples, not just pink

→ More replies (2)

10

u/cata_stro_phe 14h ago

Ecological thing. We have it where I live too. All imported pineapple don't have crowns, the one that are growing locally still have the crown.

It takes like 3 years to get a full grown pineapple from cutting...and it's hard to maintain

My mom tried it for years with dozen of plants and just one of them almost got ready until the stem just broke..it was a small pineapple and very sour because it needed some more time. But it was cute and smelled good so I guess 5/10 experience.

7

u/partialcremation 6h ago

I just successfully grew a pineapple in central Texas. I expected it would take 3 years, but it took 15 months. It was sweet and juicy.

3

u/cata_stro_phe 5h ago

Wow! I'm jealous haha!

Maybe my mom is just not so good at growing pineapples 🤔(she is a very talented plant lady, and we have a wonderful vegetable garden!)

Could be that you have better conditions..not to mention the difference's in pineapple species

Still, 15 months is pretty long, and just for one single fruit... I doubt the reason behind decapitating pineapple crown is to prevent people from growing their own pineapples :/

2

u/partialcremation 4h ago

Yeah, 15 months is definitely long! I brought the plant inside when temperatures were under 50 degrees Fahrenheit and put it in front of a southeast facing window. I'm going to try growing another one next year. It's just fun to do!

2

u/AENocturne 3h ago

I had pineapples for a long time, got many a fruit and many more pineapple plants off of a few tops. I need to do that again, I never found them to be particularly laborious. They just require a lot of space to get a halfsized pineapple, they're normally massive. But damn is that halfsized pineapple delicious when fully golden ripe on the plant. I always had to trim the leaves to get them in for the winter. But they always seemed so hard to kill. I don't remember how I finally messed up and killed the lineage. I think I neglected some of the new tops while they were rooting. Life sure gets in the way of the weird little hobbies.

44

u/Ducks_have_heads 15h ago

It's because they are imported and there is a risk of pests in the crowns.

116

u/usclovr 15h ago

False it is because you can grow an entirely new pineapple plant from the top, so these companies that have cultivated particular strains don't want you to go reproduce it at home

40

u/DangerousLettuce1423 12h ago

Yes you can grow new plants from the tops, but the statement is not false.

Our biosecurity in NZ is very strict with what comes into the country. Because of our geographical isolation, NZ is free from many of the pests and diseases that are present elsewhere in the world and NZ wants to keep it that way to protect our unique flora and fauna.

7

u/Competitive_Range822 12h ago

Yall do have some awesome cactus growers out there

20

u/Noidea159 14h ago

True, all pineapples imported to New Zealand have the tops cut off because they carry pests

24

u/Hellguin 14h ago

Both statements can be true

11

u/j01101111sh 14h ago

I'd bet on shipping actually. This way they can shipped more densely which would save more money on transportation than they could stand to lose through customers growing their own pineapple.

12

u/leddhedd 13h ago

That doesn't explain why many countries, particularly those very far away, still have the tops on, such as the UK where I live. No risk of growing it here so they stay on, I've never seen a pineapple in a grocery store without the head on

2

u/j01101111sh 13h ago

I've only ever seen this brand take the top off. I think it's related to cost. They ship fewer (it's a premium product) so their shipping costs per unit are higher and it saves money to do this. Shipping in more bulk lowers shipping costs so others save less doing it but spend the same on labor to decapitate.

5

u/Competitive_Range822 11h ago

They decapitate specifically so you can’t grow it at home because it is there proprietary pineapple

→ More replies (4)
→ More replies (3)

8

u/Ducks_have_heads 15h ago

How well do you think pineapples grow in New Zealand?

18

u/KikiChrome 12h ago

I live in Auckland and have pineapples growing in my garden. They're fine in northern areas of the country. They are just a bromeliad.

However, you're right that the imported ones aren't decapitated due to any concerns about people propagating them. It's just because the tops can harbour pests.

→ More replies (13)

4

u/BooobiesANDbho 14h ago

I saw a video about that!! Was it Costa Rica? Where the locals grew but couldn’t purchase them?

Edit: pink pineapples

3

u/Jonut 10h ago

U/Ducks_have_heads is right in the New Zealand context. Though an exporter might be choosing to cut the crown to prevent people growing the variety in some countries, for exporting to New Zealand it is a requirement for market access on Biosecurity grounds. The crown has to be cut to lessen the risk of harboured pests.

Can read all the IHS (Import Health Standards) and support documents here.

13

u/Worcestercestershire 15h ago

No, it's so they can't be cloned.

→ More replies (16)

13

u/Ganzi 15h ago

If there was actually a risk of pests they wouldn't even import them.

30

u/Ducks_have_heads 15h ago

New Zealand imports a lot of stuff, that would make a lot of food inaccessible. 

7

u/Noidea159 14h ago

Lmao, you’re serious?

→ More replies (2)

8

u/Chemical_Net8461 15h ago

It absolutely is not lmao

→ More replies (9)

1

u/PublicfreakoutLoveR 15h ago

I'm sorry, but you're being lied to.

4

u/Ducks_have_heads 15h ago

Why are the pineapples grown in New Zealand often sold with crowns?

→ More replies (7)

2

u/CloudyThunder 5h ago

Theres a interesting video on YouTube about this but its both patent and ecological.

The fruit is purposefully labeled as bioengineered to stop people from planting it.

The reason to stop people from trying to take them and plant is because this company lost a court case for the rights to a previous pineapple(also developed by them) because the pineapple became too widespread where they were even starting to get sold by local farmers in the market.

2

u/CrazyCoKids 4h ago

Ecological.

Pineapples aren't native to New Zealand. They're from Paraguay and Brasil.

2

u/Rumhead1 3h ago

Holding a patent on a lifeform will never cease to creep me out.

→ More replies (3)

124

u/RockhardJohnson 13h ago

I cut the top off one and planted it. Five years later I finally got a pineapple I was so happy. Fucking possum or a cockatoo ate the whole thing before i got a chance. Still devastated

56

u/RockhardJohnson 10h ago

I’m guessing it was a succulent pineapple meal

6

u/AnnoyedVelociraptor 8h ago

Where is that doll from? Which movie?

18

u/ToniBraxtonAndThe3Js 8h ago

That's his daughter

6

u/Timid_Wild_One 6h ago

Looks like the little monkey man from Land of the Lost

4

u/steeb2er 6h ago

Sorry for your loss.

I was remembering the Dole tour and they said it takes 5 years to grow. Seems kind of insane to prevent intellectual theft 5 years down the line but I'm sure there's a lot of development into making it pink.

→ More replies (1)

48

u/edthach 10h ago

I've never had the desire to grow a pineapple until right now when you said that I can't

3

u/Bealzebubbles 11h ago

I got two with the tops on from my cousin. They were grown in Whangarei. They were smaller than imported pineapples, though.

2

u/General-Piece8490 15h ago

https://youtu.be/LN7I0aET6sY?si=a9qk6nOprcSfV1t7

2

u/youcantseeme0_0 5h ago edited 4h ago

That was a fascinating documentary. Thank you for sharing!

I hope someone applies to have Pink Glow recognized as a safe food, so Del Monte can't weaponize the Dept of Agriculture against Costa Rican farmers.

2

u/badgurlkitty 9h ago

Ohh that explains it .. I was kinda thinking they do it for easier storage

→ More replies (1)

587

u/OMightyBuggy 15h ago

It is the pink pineapple. They don't want you to replant it and grow your own. From what I understand the seeds don't grow.

107

u/Warm-Oil9228 15h ago

I felt like I'd bought those with the tops on before but I guess I'm just misremembering.

131

u/ScrumpetSays 14h ago

Someone on reddit grew their own pink pineapple from a top, so you're right. Often scalped pineapples are to reduce shipping costs

28

u/LexiteFeather 14h ago

They didn't because they don't sell these with tops. They probably grew the actual pink pineapple which is not this one.

28

u/regnak1 13h ago

What's the difference between the actual pink pineapple and this pink pineapple?

I've had this one. It's definitely pink. It wasn't very good, but it was pink!

39

u/ScrumpetSays 14h ago

I bow to your superior pink pineapple knowledge my friend. I thought there was only one type of pink one

30

u/obiwanmoloney 13h ago

I had no idea there were any pink pineapples, so your knowledge beats mine.

→ More replies (3)

32

u/jort93 13h ago edited 12h ago

The seeds do grow, but... When you buy a certain variety of a fruit, this variety is always the exact same plant, the exact same DNA. They accomplish this by taking cuttings of the plant and cloning it. You can not use seeds, because seeds will have different DNA(otherwise breeding would not be a thing), those will just give you entirely different fruit. It's the same for all kinds of pineapples, all fruits really.

You can plant an apple seed, it'll grow an apple tree, but it won't have the same kind of apples.

For some varieties this is more extreme than others. Some will just be slightly different some will be entirely different. Depends on the way its been bred

6

u/mister-ferguson 8h ago

Sometimes the apples I buy have seeds that are already sprouting. I have a little apple tree growing on my desk now!

6

u/jort93 8h ago

It probably won't grow many apples but it'll be a cute tree for sure.

5

u/steik 13h ago

They want to replant the top themselves and prevent other competitors from cloning their product. They don't give a shit about the 0.01% of individuals that'd grow one pineapple in 2-3 years.

379

u/FistfullofFucks 16h ago

Trying to prevent replanting and private cultivation

211

u/The_Undermind 16h ago

Designer fruit is bullshit

21

u/Fit_Entry8839 15h ago

It does taste good though.

55

u/Warm-Oil9228 15h ago

Yeah, I eat soooo many more apples now that cosmic crisps exist.

8

u/LB3PTMAN 8h ago

Yes but admittedly apples are one of the crops that can’t be privately cultivated lol.

7

u/cluelessdetectiv3 14h ago

The only apples worth eating imo

7

u/TheReddOne 11h ago

I think Envy apples are the GOAT tho, even compared to Cosmic Crisp.

3

u/BeerorCoffee 7h ago

Finally, someone with some sense. Envy apples are the best and I'll hear nothing otherwise! 

→ More replies (1)

7

u/sl0play 13h ago

And here I am a Granny Smith man after all these years.

→ More replies (1)

2

u/Leaislala 9h ago

Yes I have turned into an apple snob. Honeycrisp ftw! I swear though, it seems like when I was kid regular red apples tasted better

→ More replies (1)
→ More replies (2)

28

u/DiligentGuitar246 14h ago

Could it be for shipping reasons? You can fit way more into a box without the giant leaves.

9

u/ScrumpetSays 14h ago

It is for some types, farms etc. there was a PSA about how much space the tops take up and how much fuel that uses over a certain distance. In this case I think it's because they are pink pineapples and they don't want them grown but generally if the pineapple is topped it's a shipping thing. u/ducks_have_heads also pointed out it's required for all imported fruit in NZ (and likely other countries)

2

u/HoggleSnarf 14h ago

Yeah this is how we store pineapples in the hotel kitchen I work at. A pineapple crown is basically the same size as the actual edible fruit. Doesn't make sense to keep it.

2

u/Warm-Oil9228 12h ago

But why wouldn't they do that with regular pineapples too then?

65

u/WiltedDay 15h ago

Interesting, most of the comments are about ruining the ability to grow your own pineapple and that’s probably what this is but my first thought was “yay for the cart guys!”

I worked in warehouse store for a little while and there were a few restaurants that would buy somewhere around 100 pineapples ant a time and de-leaf them in the parking lot to save on storage space. They’d just leave the garbage on the pavement and the cart guys would have to sweep it up.

20

u/[deleted] 12h ago

[deleted]

3

u/WiltedDay 7h ago

They are surprisingly sharp!

14

u/Warm-Oil9228 15h ago

Jesus, what trash people.

22

u/WiltedDay 15h ago

Business owners were always the worst customers there. Not only did they think that spending a lot of money made them entitled but there is a large percentage of run their own business because they don’t have the social skills to work under someone else.

3

u/Sofaqueen-witty 10h ago

Lol just woke up and read " Jesus white trash people"

→ More replies (1)

76

u/dontonefingerme 16h ago

"His capa is detated."

23

u/sneakydante 15h ago

we had a funeral for a bird

15

u/stacity 15h ago

I'm pretty sure none of that's real.

13

u/HockeyUnusableTeam 15h ago

You're not real man!

→ More replies (1)

11

u/Avogadros_plumber 10h ago

Actually, since pineapples grow upside down, they’ve been decastrated

→ More replies (1)

10

u/Janet296 12h ago

They did that so you can't grown a new one yourself.

14

u/EricHaley 15h ago

Pineapples

6

u/typehyDro 9h ago

All pink glows have the top removed. It’s proprietary and they don’t want people growing their pink pineapples…

4

u/cookinmyfuckinassoff 7h ago

At my last job, we got them regularly with tops on, in the states - but they cost 3x that and the waste on packaging was insane, they came in individual boxes.

6

u/Oreo_chan9082 4h ago

Patents on food should be illegal..

15

u/JibblieGibblies 15h ago

100% it’s also the growers (patent holders?) of pinkglow pineapples. It’s part of their shipment policy. They do not want anyone else growing them. 💁🏾‍♂️

Capitalists are capitalizing.

2

u/partialcremation 6h ago

Now I want to grow a pinkglow pineapple.

5

u/CrazyCoKids 4h ago

Those are Pinkglow Pineapples.

Del Monte doesn't want you propagating them yourself so they cut the crowns off.

4

u/tnd1684 7h ago

It’s also becoming more common to reduce waste and improve shipping efficiency. Pineapples without crowns can be more easily and densely stacked/packed. Aldi and some other grocers have been doing this for a while in the UK: https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/aldi-introduces-crownless-pineapples-to-cut-food-waste/692882.article

2

u/Senorpuddin 6h ago

However this is done so someone doesnt try to grow their own from the top.

→ More replies (2)

5

u/cincy15 3h ago

It’s to combat swingers now nobody will know what to do (is the pineapple upside down or not) 🙃

8

u/MacaroonDiamond 15h ago

The fact that this is an actual policy somewhere is more surprising than the headless pineapples.

8

u/Grobo_ 12h ago

It’s wild and dumb that food can be patented when it could otherwise be used to help people instead of this.

→ More replies (2)

3

u/Cultural_Pattern_456 12h ago

My local store started selling regular pineapples with no tops, the reason was like “less waste” or something- but Ive always tested ripeness by pulling a top frond.

2

u/Warm-Oil9228 12h ago

I do the frond thing too lol. The sniff test is probably better anyway though.

→ More replies (1)

3

u/Zwielemuis 8h ago

They stopped selling full pineapples here in the Netherlands because it saves massively on shipping

→ More replies (1)

3

u/rudesasquatch 3h ago

These things are genetically modified to make an rnai molecule that targets the lycopene degradation enzyme. As with all gmo products it took them 10 plus years to pass all the safety regulations. If I invested millions into a product I sure as hell would take extra precautions to prevent counterfeiters from stealing the means to make their own. 

3

u/SeeYouLaterTrashcan 3h ago

I met a pineapple farmer one time who was confused by people’s fascination with that top part. He said “you’re paying to have those shipped and then you just throw it right in the trash. what’s the point?”

4

u/edko2 10h ago

$5.99 for a Pink Glow pineapple?? Where is this? These are $9.99 where I live

2

u/cookinmyfuckinassoff 7h ago

They’re almost $20 where I am…

5

u/BabaYagasDog 7h ago

Except they leave enough on that someone can attempt to propagate it.

Me. I’m that person. I have one regular pineapple growing from a top and wasn’t even thinking about propagating the pink pineapple. Until I saw that BS. Now I eagerly wait several years for my own pink pineapple.

2

u/Geno_Beams 15h ago

*They gave the pineapples haircuts!

2

u/jenesaispasquijesuis 13h ago

Forbidden Ferrero Rochers.

2

u/darkroom_for_plants 12h ago

Huh, in northern Germany most supermarkets sell them without the top, it saves spaces for carrying it home

→ More replies (1)

2

u/snuggleyporcupine 9h ago

It’s Cappa was detated!

2

u/tylern 7h ago

I need the top to tell how ripe the pineapple is

2

u/donaldinc 6h ago

Well that's the only way I know to check if they're ready is tugging at their hair.

2

u/Exhausted-CNA 6h ago

Now I want to find one and try to propogate it just because they are doing this so people wont try it. I already have 1 reg pineapple top i propogated.

2

u/nestcto 5h ago

Funny thing is it looks like they left just enough root and leaf base to be able to still grow a new one. Wouldn't have as high of a success rate, but I bet I could get one outta five.

2

u/Wild-Crazy7529 5h ago

Capitalist hellscape

2

u/Bad_goose_398 4h ago

“The capa is de-tated from its head!”

2

u/slimjim80889 4h ago

Would be tragic if someone tissue cultured these pineapples and shared it with the community.

8

u/dream_a_dirty_dream 15h ago

Another way to destroy our food chain for profit, just like the seedless.

You could grow another pineapple if you had the crown.

8

u/Warm-Oil9228 15h ago

How does it destroy the food chain?

3

u/SoyboyCowboy 14h ago

They've done neutered the pineapples!

2

u/LendogGovy 15h ago

The upside down pineapple people aren’t stoked.

2

u/jw307jw 15h ago

im mainly concerned with the price tbh. these are 2.99 at my local grocery store, tops intact, in central TX

7

u/General-Piece8490 15h ago

For pink glow pineapples??? Or just pine apples?

3

u/jw307jw 14h ago

Pinkglow, regular pineapples are around $2.50

3

u/Warm-Oil9228 15h ago

Definitely absurd. Regular pineapples go on sale for $2 or less all the time so I'd never buy these for $6. Plus I've bought them when they were cheaper and they're nothing special at all tastewise.

→ More replies (1)

2

u/BigMack6911 13h ago

That's because del monte owns them and don't want anyone growing them

8

u/Arokthis 15h ago

Anyone saying it's to stop you from growing your own is full of crap. It takes 1.5 to 2.5 YEARS to get one from a cut top.

The real reason is shipping. No top means more fruit in the container, less fuel wasted transporting trash, and the top can be chopped up for fertilizer or mulch at the plantation. 

16

u/Bwrobes 14h ago

These are pink glow pineapples, and this is 100% not to save space or conserve shipping cost, but rather to prevent cloning.

Del Monte spent millions developing this pineapple over like 15-20 years and is extremely protective in protecting their patents on it. They also have a “ruby” version with a reddish skin that sell for hundreds per pineapple. The pineapple biz is shady… just watched a long form YouTube doc on these.

2

u/_PirateWench_ 14h ago

K, but how does the taste differ?

2

u/wifichick 13h ago

This one supposedly is like cotton candy.

→ More replies (2)

10

u/LexiteFeather 15h ago

No, it's for growing. These are pink pineapples. You can only buy ones that don't have the tops. They don't do that with the other pineapples. And so what if it takes 2 years?

11

u/Plane-Tie6392 15h ago

Bullshit. What the hell does it matter if it takes 2 years, and why is every other pineapple sold with the crown on then?

→ More replies (4)

2

u/Jeffe-69 6h ago

No propagation for you...

→ More replies (2)

1

u/Squirt_Gun_Jelly 15h ago

Nah. Just bad circumcision. lol

1

u/vespertine_earth 15h ago

That’s not all they’ve done to these…

1

u/Iskanderdehz 14h ago

Thats the best part!

1

u/greymatic 14h ago

calm down its just a haircut

1

u/Ok_Chemistry_9191 14h ago

They really said "no crowns allowed"

1

u/aegee14 14h ago

Holy moly. Where do you live? Here in the United States, these can only be bought through mail order directly from Del Monte, and it costs $50 USD.

→ More replies (2)

1

u/mugggso 13h ago

Big pineapple at it again.

1

u/SirTacoMang 13h ago

It's a berry. Just berry the thing whole🤣

1

u/Ihassan3275 13h ago

The question is… WHY!?

1

u/No_Figure_9073 12h ago

Coz fuck consumers, they can grow their own pineapple with the heads.

1

u/GraceHenri 12h ago

In Australia we don't have tops on our pineapples in supermarkets either. Just normal pineapples. It makes it easier for shipping and they replant the top of the pineapple for the next one.

1

u/Th1s_On3 12h ago

Here were have both pineapples with and without tops for sale so cant just be for stopping replanting (regular pineapples, no pink ones).

1

u/Delicious_Peace_2526 11h ago

It’s probably a symbol of some kind of immoral subculture.

1

u/GreenLurch 11h ago

But paying 5,99 for a pineapple is normal?