James Silverton wrote:
>
> A ripe melon does have a faint pleasant smell as does a ripe pineapple.
> Most satisfactory pineapples that I have bought have had an overall
> yellow tint. The old trick whereby if you can lift it by one top leaf,
> it is not ripe, usually works but last week some guests gave me a
> perfectly good pineapple with firmly attached leaves.
>
>

The trick to pineapple is to look for one that's really
yellow and to make sure
it has a sweet scent, not wine-y because that one has
started to ferment
and will have a nasty flavor.

gloria p