SC - Re: Wierd but Cool Kitchen Gadgets
Elaine Koogler
ekoogler at chesapeake.net
Thu Apr 26 06:39:13 PDT 2001
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
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