On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:56:07 -0600, Christine Dabney
> wrote:

>On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:38:40 -0400, "Dora" > wrote:
>
>>Omelet wrote:
>>> Promised I'd start this thread. :-) Go ahead and run with it!
>>
>>Pineapple: A middle leaf should pull out easily.
>
>And it should smell like ripe pineapple. A pineapple with a barely
>discernible aroma is not ripe.
>
>Lately, I have heard that things bout a leaf pulling out, are not
>reliable.... I forget where and from whom I heard it...
>
>The aroma is the thing that is most reliable to me.. However, it
>shouldn't smell like it is on the edge of fermentation...

Once picked pineapple does not ripen... unless you live where
pineapple is grown the closest you will ever come to ripe pineapple is
from out of a can. Few folks have ever tasted fresh field ripened
pineapple. Pineapple for export is picked green, ripe pineapple does
not ship well. Pineapple from the stupidmarket will never get any
riper, it will only ferment/rot... place on countertop in a bowl
leaves down, gravity will help to equalize whatever sugar is already
in the fruit (once picked no more sugar will be produced). Eat as
soon as possible.