My normal walk around the produce section,
at the grocery store was thrown an odd ball.
Hiding right of the organic produce section was an
itty bitty teeny weeny pineapple, so small, so cute.
I just had to have it, at a $1 it was a steal.
This pineapple may not have thorns, like roses do,
but its prickly leaves can certainly make their
presence known to unsuspecting fingers, as I
learned when I handled this tiny pineapple.
I put my cell phone next to the base;
my cellphone is actually taller than the
baby pineapple, by 1/2 an inch. It's tiny!
The mariachi is playing, let's sing....
"If you like pina coladas,
getting caught in the rain."
On the other side of the size spectrum, I set out to
find out the largest pineapple in recorded history.
My search for the largest natural pineapple was fruitless.
Wikipedia taught me that p-apples originated from Brazil
and Paraguay, in South America. It is pollinated by the
none other than the delicate ever-moving hummingbird.
Interestingly, South America comes in third place for
number of tons exported pineapples worldwide.
In the cartoon Sponge Bob Square Pants, he lives in
a pineapple under the sea, this structure above must
have been the prototype for it, made in Australia it
is one of the largest pineapple roadside attractions.
Imagine if someone actually lived there, well it wouldn't
be the first unusual home. Plenty of brave eclectic people
have made homes from atypical structures. The leaves are not
as realistic as I would like them to be, skimpy incomplete looking.
Pineapple is one of the strongest fruits, with its tough outer shell.
The leaves make a nice roof, and if you carve the inside there is
space to live. Perhaps it's not a bad idea after all to live in a pina.
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