pineapple

     

Ananas sativus

Trivia about pineapple

  • When buying this fruit, the pina in a pina colada, don't judge it by its color
  • The Spaniards called it pina de Indes from its resemblance to a pine cone
  • For lunch, how 'bout a Hawaiian pizza, topped with ham or Canadian bacon & this fruit
  • Traditional sweet & sour pork contains this tropical fruit
  • Hawaii produces 300,000 tons of this tropical fruit a year, the vast majority of the USA's crop
  • Planted chiefly in Hawaii, the most widely grown variety of this fruit is the smooth cayenne
  • Baked ham may be topped with rings of this tropical fruit for which Hawaii is famous
  • This popular tropical fruit was named for its resemblance to a pine cone
  • In 1901 James Dole founded a company in Hawaii to process this
  • McDonald's hope for meatless Friday was the Hula Burger, this fruit topped with cheese & grilled
  • Topping a pizza with this tropical fruit will make it Hawaiian
  • How about a nice traditional Hawaiian pizza topped with ham or Canadian bacon & this fruit
  • As in Hawaii, sugarcane & this tropical fruit are major exports
  • The cayenne variety of this juicy tropical fruit is grown in Hawaii
  • It's traditional to top ham with glazed rings of this tropical fruit
  • In 1493 Columbus encountered this, Hawaii's most valuable fruit crop, on the island of Guadeloupe
  • If you like pina coladas, then you must like coconut & this fruit, the 2 main flavors
  • It was introduced to Hawaii in 1813, & by the 1950s the islands produced 75% of the world's supply
  • Plane pipe
  • Time to dole out some seedless cayenne, the most widely grown type of this tropical fruit plant
  • The "hospitality" fruit, it can keep Jell-O from jelling
  • This fruit from the family Bromeliaceae is native to Brazil & Paraguay; it didn't reach Hawaii until the early 1500s
  • (Ahoy, I'm Spongebob Squarepants.) My pet snail Gary & I live in one of these tropical fruits in Bikini Bottom
  • In French, a banana is banane; this tropical fruit is ananas
  • Creme d'ananas is a liqueur flavored with this fruit