On 17/7/08 00:02, in article
, "Billy"
wrote:

In article
,
Keith wrote:

Besides eating, what else have you found pineapples are also good
for ?

I've heard that it is the fastest fermenting juice around and was the
favorite of ship bound sailors:-)

It's the symbol of hospitality, which is why you so often see them atop old
houses' gate posts etc. in rural UK. For example, they were grown in
pineapple pits at Heligan, in horse manure the decomposition of which gave
off the heat to grow the pineapples.
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Even then, this was labour intensive and the outcome was fraught with danger
so they were both exotic and expensive. In those days there was immensely
strong competition among society hostesses to produce the first peas, beans,
strawberries etc. so producing pineapples was a social coup of some meaning.
I suppose that the entire plant could be quite useful for cleaning chimneys
if you run out of small boys. ;-)
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon