$400 for one pineapple: The rise of luxury fruit

Dumbkid, 22 days ago

Let me just only have one pineapple for food this month

Slayan, 23 days ago

Pineapple fun fact: Before selling them for consumption, pineapple merchants rented pineapples to people who couldn’t afford to purchase them. Those who rented would take the pineapple to parties, not to give as a gift to the host, but to carry around and show off their apparent ability to afford such an expensive fruit.

A pineapple could cost up to 8000$ in the 1700-1800.

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FuglyDuck, 22 days ago

eat the rich

I’d rather compost and eat pineapple, to be honest.

RGB3x3, 22 days ago

Compost the rich for growing the pineapple!

themeatbridge, 23 days ago

Luxury fruit has always been a thing. Like, for as long as humans have had trade.

Bishma, 23 days ago

I like that the section on apples talks like its a new thing and not the status quo basically since we first learned to graft apple trees.