SC - Servers eating free

[Elaine Koogler]

Audrey Bergeron-Morin wrote:

> The core of pineapples is hard because they're not ripe whey they are
> shipped... When you buy a pineapple that was picked ripe (I travelled to
> Costa Rica), the core is as soft as the rest of it, and there's no point in
> removing it. But when they ship pineapples here, they're far from ripe and
> the core is hard.

That must be it, though I've eaten the cores of pineapples I've purchased here
as well.  You are right...the core is harder than I remember the ones in the
South Pacific.  And the pineapples themselves aren't nearly as sweet.  But I
guess they have to be picked green for shipping

Kiri