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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
When we lived in Hawaii in the 1960s we took visitors on a tour of the Dole Pineapple factory in Honolulu. At the end they had a huge bowl of fresh cut vine ripened pineapple. Most folks thought it was sweetened with sugar, but it was just the freshness. More than a few people stood there and snarfed several large sticks of pineapple. You could buy a whole pineapple for a dime.
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I am guessing that was fruit just past "prime". Growing up in the 70-80's at the yacht club I attended I would often go into the kitchen as meals for the nights gathering were being prepared.
The best days where wen the were prepping the fresh pineapple. There was the bowl with the fruit to serve and the bowl for the help. The bowl with the fruit to serve was all perfectly yellow chunks. The bowl for the help had a lot of brown. That was the past prime pieces. It was perfectly edible, high sugar content tasted the best but was slightly brown.
To this day I let my fruit go past prime. It's the best.