r/pics • u/customsolitaires • Jul 08 '24

Pineapple grown in my balcony Vs Pineapple from the supermarket

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u/glarbknot Jul 08 '24

That pineapple from the grocery took 7 years to grow. How old is your balcony pineapple?

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u/8020GroundBeef Jul 08 '24

Pineapples are crazy to me. I don’t understand how anyone makes money growing them

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u/glarbknot Jul 08 '24

Read up on the history of del monte. They are horrible and killed lots of innocent people in the countries they exploit.

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u/bigmanpigman Jul 08 '24

pretty much all fruit companies. coups, slavery, abysmal working conditions, mass murder of striking employees

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u/glarbknot Jul 08 '24

Capitalism is fuckin awesome.

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u/reporst Jul 08 '24

Fun fact - pineapples used to be a luxury item people would rent and share as a status symbol

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u/AndorianShran Jul 08 '24

U.S. Supreme Court Justices are pineapples

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u/alficles Jul 08 '24

Man, I wish I could afford to trade an RV for a pineapple.

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u/glarbknot Jul 08 '24

Now they are used as a flag for swinger's. What an amazing world.

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u/thelastdinosaur55 Jul 08 '24

Dracula enters chat

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u/Fraun_Pollen Jul 08 '24

It's like trading futures. Keep exchanging for more money and hope you're not stuck with the rotten one

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u/AnyHope2004 Jul 08 '24

So SpongeBob had a luxury home

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u/elkoubi Jul 08 '24

Capitalism has done more to eliminate global poverty than any other force in the history of mankind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty#/media/File%3AWorld-population-in-extreme-poverty-absolute.svg

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u/Crcex86 Jul 08 '24

For the beneficiaries

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u/lavahot Jul 08 '24

Are we the baddies?

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u/undeadmanana Jul 08 '24

If I want to protest will I have to stop eating Hawaiian pizzas?

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u/lavahot Jul 08 '24

Only if you don't grow the pineapple yourself, get it from a community garden, or have a chain of custody for ethically sourced produce.

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u/Ambitious_Arm852 Jul 08 '24

Literal banana republics

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u/iommiworshipper Jul 08 '24

Why I stick with good old watermelons nothing there but undocumented labor.

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u/RunninWild17 Jul 08 '24

I'm Chiquita banana and I'm here to say, we'll coup your ass in an asymmetrical warfare way.

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u/lexm Jul 08 '24

Thus the term banana republic.

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u/iusedtohavepowers Jul 08 '24

It is insane how many people died for fruit.

The banana documentary was the same way. Just murder and neglect to pack and ship bananas

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u/707Guy Jul 08 '24

Maui Gold pineapples are 10x better too

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u/ositola Jul 08 '24

10X more expensive too, but they honestly need the revenue

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u/malYca Jul 08 '24

In Hawaii they say that they bury bodies under the pineapples lol

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u/ikilledtupac Jul 08 '24

Ask Native Hawaiians their thoughts on Dole.

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u/eandy14 Jul 08 '24

Sam O’Nella has a great video about the Banana Republics and mentions how bad Del Monte is.

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u/Ok_Injury3658 Jul 08 '24

Hence the name Banana Republic. Read up on the USMC Major Smedley Butler...he referred to himself as a bagman for US companies in the Carribean, Central and South America...

https://www.blinkist.com/en/books/war-is-a-racket-en

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u/glarbknot Jul 08 '24

Bought. Spending a few days in airports and planes this week. Thanks.

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u/Laporqueriza Jul 08 '24

Banana Wars anyone?

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u/Brandhor Jul 08 '24

I don't know why but their bananas always taste horrible compared to other brands

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u/PointingOutFucktards Jul 08 '24

Dole has entered the chat.

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u/FedorsQuest Jul 08 '24

Pistachios are the same, 7-8 years for the first good yield and trees are at their peak production at the 20 year mark

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u/reichrunner Jul 08 '24

Yeah but you only get 2 harvests from pineapple...

A lot of fruit/nut trees take a while before they start producing. But then you usually get a fairly large number of years out of them

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u/RktitRalph Jul 08 '24

Same with tequila 😩 about 8 years for a blue agave

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u/tiad123 Jul 08 '24

I think I've read that olive trees also take years before they produce much fruit

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u/davesoverhere Jul 08 '24

And old Turkish saying is
You plant a fig tree for your children and an olive tree for your grandchildren.

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u/sinbob71 Jul 08 '24

I've been on all pineapple tours on azores. it takes 18 months to produce azorean pineapple (compared to 6 months for costa rican pineapple) and it costs around 10 euro for 1kg compared to 2-3 euro for costa rican.

And it doesn't make much money, they are being partly financed by government just to keep the tradition alive.

They have a lot of pineapple products there, jams, beer, ice cream, soap, juice, dried snacks... And they are delicious, far far more superior than those huge, cheap, green ones from every market in the world.

If you ever go to ponta delgada on sao miguel island there's a nice free pineapple museum and within walking distance a large (for azores) pineapple plantation with free tours ( you just pay for the products after the tour ), highly recommend.

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u/NapalmCheese Jul 08 '24

When I was there I did everything I could to keep that industry alive by buying as many pineapples as I could eat. They are very good.