CrystalJo74's Journal, 28 July 2023

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Ten Facts About Pineapples:
1. The first ever record of the word ‘Pineapple’ dates back to 1398.
2. A pineapple can take up to 3 years to grow and mature into a plant.
3. Only one pineapple is produced by a single plant in a single season.
4. A pineapple plant can stay alive and continue giving fruits for up to 50 years.
5. A pineapple is not a pine or an apple. Its actually a berry.
6. 75% of all pineapples sold in Europe are grown in Costa Rica.
7. The dole plantation pineapple garden maze in Hawaii has the record for the
largest maze in the world stretching over three acres.
8. The worlds largest pineapple ever recorded was in 2011 grown by Christine
McCollum from Bakewell Australia. It measured 32cm long had a 66cm girth and
weighed 28kg.
9. You can grow pineapple plants by slicing off the top of a pineapple and
planting it in soil.
10.Sponge Bob squarepants lives in a pineapple under the sea.

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Diet Calendar Entry for 28 July 2023:

1629 kcal

Fat: 31.77g | Prot: 74.48g | Carb: 280.44g. Breakfast: Maple Grove Farms Sugar Free Maple Syrup, Eggland's Best Large Grade A Eggs, Kodiak Cakes Protein Packed Buttermilk Flapjack & Waffle Mix, Krusteaz Buttermilk Complete Pancake Mix, Fiber One Soft Baked Bars Cinnamon Coffee Cake, Coffee-Mate Sugar Free French Vanilla Liquid Coffee Creamer, Coffee (Brewed From Grounds). Lunch: Wonderful Roasted, Salted & Shelled Pistachios, Cottage Cheese (Lowfat 2% Milkfat), Smoked Salmon. Dinner: Granulated Sugar , General Mills Wheaties Cereal, Watermelon , Smoked Salmon. Snacks/Other: Seneca Foods Crispy Apple Chips, Pepsi Diet Pepsi. more...

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When the pineapple workers harvest the fields in Hawaii, they wear leather gauntlets to their shoulders, because the leaves are live sawblades. They use machetes to slash off the crowns with about an inch of the pineapple attached, and drop it in the field, then slash the fruit and toss it in the wagon. Step, step, slash, slash, toss. The another worker follows behind and plants the crowns. The topless pineapples go to the cannery. When I was there in the early 70's, the workers went on strike and Dole told the locals to take what they wanted from the fields. We filled up our car trunk with overripe huge pineapples and had a big canning session. Pineapple marmalade and pancake syrup. I've never had a pineapple since to compare to those.

28 Jul 23 by member: erikahollister

like sawblades

28 Jul 23 by member: erikahollister

So interesting!! Thanx for sharing🍍🍍

28 Jul 23 by member: CrystalJo74

CrystalJo! I've missed you! 😃

28 Jul 23 by member: writingwyo

also symbolizes being a swinger. lol. and no we aren't swingers.

28 Jul 23 by member: davidsprincess

We brought pineapples back from Hawaii and I planted the top of one and grew a big pineapple plant, but it never produced any fruit. I loved the way it looked though.

28 Jul 23 by member: shirfleur 1

writingwyo~ Hi!🙋‍♀️ I've missed you too💙davidsprincess~ really? Learned somethin' new!Thanx!💙Shirfleur~how big did it get? Did you grow it in a container or in the ground? (PS...I'm a novice gardener with lotsa questions😂)

29 Jul 23 by member: CrystalJo74

CrystalJo, I grew it in a great big pot and it got about three feet tall, and quite hazardous, but it was sitting outside in a corner, not where anyone generally walked. It faced south-west and survived several years before a cold spell finally got to it. Very easy to grow, I'm no gardener.

29 Jul 23 by member: shirfleur 1

I love it!!

29 Jul 23 by member: buenitabishop


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