Dorothy

Kiwifruit looks like dog testicles. Perhaps hospitals use them for testicle replacement surgery.

Photoplex

If a pineapple lasts a week, and thus go bad, are you going to drive all the way across the border to save $4.50 a week? Do you plan on cycling, or using a vehicle based on the internal combustion engine? Because you know, petrol is far more expensive than pineapples...

Or do you plan on buying lots of pineapples and freezing them? At 10 pineapples, that's a saving of $45. A tank of gas in my vehicle is about $65...

This makes less sense the more I think about it.

goneforgood

And your posts are pretty silly. Naturally we would not drive over the border for just one pineapple. And the nearest US store that sells pineapples is not a full tank of gas away. Pineapples don't go bad in a week in the fridge.

dbd33

I've never considered refrigerating pineapples. They're not in the cold room at Costco but out with the yams and onions. I place the pineapple on top of the fridge so that, as well as being edible, it's decorative and saves on the cost of fresh flowers.

I don't think pineapples would freeze well and they don't come in a very freezer compliant format, not being square. That'd be doubly a problem if you bought the pineapples in the US and wanted to put them in a, Canadian sourced, metric freezer.

BristolUK

@dbd33

I didn't know you used to write those letters in Viz.

dbd33

I don't seek to come across as a fat slag, well no more than usual. It's just that, when I think of pineapples at all, which is not often. I imagine people on aeroplanes feeding pieces of them to brightly coloured talking birds.

scrubbedexpat091

If only stores sold the BC grown fruits more affordable. Last year the BC grown stuff was running nearly double on average vs US grown.


I do know if one lives in the growing areas local fruits can be obtained cheaper, one year when I took a road trip to Kelowna through some of the growing regions, I bought so many cherries as they were so cheap.



I suppose I have been in Canada too long, but I never thought the 3.99 for a pineapple was all that much, I can't recall seeing them for 5.99, but I rarely buy them, not my favorite fruit out there.

Dorothy

Surprisingly they do freeze well. Cube them up and put it in a plastic bag. There's a grocery store here that has frozen pineapple, papaya, berries, etc in bulk.

Photoplex

Aaaaand I'm out.

dbd33

Well, yes, chopped up might work. We have some frozen chopped rhubarb which we processed in that manner, it has a similar molecular structure and defrosts successfully. I suppose an organized person would take a knife and a chopping board to America and perform the dissection in the Costco car park so as to reduce the weight of pineapple to be imported. One wouldn't take the bags to America but buy them there so as to benefit from the cross border plastic bag price differential which, proportionately, approaches that of pineapples and merlot.

Stinkypup

I tell a lie, we do get pineapples here in BC, Aviator was wrong too

BristolUK

Thinking that grenades are sometimes called pineapples, I wonder if a team of two could get together with one each side of the border at some suitable place.

One could be State-side with an RPG launcher and send the rocket propelled pineapples over the border to their colleague who has a net for catching them.

Stinkypup

Silly boy

MillieF

Goneforgood, thank you for opening this thread. It's been very instructive, I didn't realize that there was an issue with the price of Pineapples in Canada.....I have an issue with the price of most commodities here, but can't remember the last time I bought a Pineapple...so often the are dry, and I don't like the woody bits. I'd probably try Walmart

More importantly you gave the floor to some excellent responses that made me giggle...you can always rely on BE for good solid info...but with a sidebar of humour too...thank heaven

bats

You know what you can't get in Canada? Cottage cheese with pineapple bits. That was quite pleasant for a lunchtime snack