Looks like the pineapple I bought at start of week is ripe now! 
At least, that's what the leaf-pulling suggests? Apparently you're meant to test a pineapple's ripeness by gently pulling at the leaves in the middle of the stalk. If a leaf in the middle comes out very easily it is ripe.
Amazing that after a week of junk there might be a healthy dessert for Xmas dinner today 
By the way, if anyone has been put off pineapple by the way it tastes when tinned, I can assure you that ripe fresh pineapple is TOTALLY different.
When a fresh pineapple is ripe, the flavour is a million times better than its tinned cousin. If you've never tried fresh pineapple, highly recommend it!
@irisRichardson@mastodon.art@FediThing Thanks for that tip now I want to go out and get a pineapple to try it out.
According to the method, the leaf should come out like super-easily, you won't need to tug at all.
Will post an update later today to see if the method is proving correct 
@irisRichardson@mastodon.art@FediThing I tried this and it is true
@FediThing I feel like if everyone tried that, someone would pick up an unripe pineapple thinking it was ripe because someone had checked it before and loosened the leaves
Hahaha... yeah, I guess this method has its limits.
@FediThing especially on pizza 
@FediThing sure is :) i really love the """Hawaiian""" pizza
I have a friend who absolutely hates: pineapple, mushrooms, olives, anchovies.
So, it's really fun when we get pizzas and I'm able to completely disgust her with my order 
@FediThing how can anyone hate anchovies? O_O
I know, right?
Apparently people in Victorian times used to give each other barrels of anchovies at Xmas!
@FediThing now i'm jealous, lol :P i seriously love that stuff!
@lashman @FediThing The experience of animals are real and matter. Their suffering is identical in nature to our own. It harms us when we take pleasure in cruelty and violence.
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@FediThing I can drink fresh pineapple juice exclusively for the rest of my life and be happy.
@FediThing It also freezes really well! My mom chops up a pineapple and freezes it in sections for later convenience; apparently, eating it regularly really helps with her arthritis
Did not know that! Yeah, a whole pineapple can be quite a lot of fruit to eat in one go.
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Can confirm. Tinned pineapple barely compares with the fresh fruit.
We never find ripe ones where I currently live. I use the leaf method - *and* I also focus on how much perfume wafts from it.
Ok, I’m hungry for fresh fruit!
#JoinIn #Fruit #Pineapple
When fruit is ripe, it is just the best tasting thing in the world!
A ripe peach is the most perfect thing ever.
It's just sometimes difficult to get fruit at exact moment of ripeness
This brings Eddie Izzard's fruit routine to mind:
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Yes!!!
Eddie Izzard nails it with the pears! Avocados can be that way too…
@gabigueron @FediThing Tinned is an abomination...lol