$400 for one pineapple: The rise of luxury fruit

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Is America ready for a $400 pineapple? Luxury fruit is now a thing | CNN Business
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Pineapple fun fact: Before selling them for consumption, pineapple merchants rented pineapples to people who couldn't afford to purchase them. Those who rented would take the pineapple to parties, not to give as a gift to the host, but to carry around and show off their apparent ability to afford such an expensive fruit.

A pineapple could cost up to 8000$ in the 1700-1800.

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I’d rather compost and eat pineapple, to be honest.

Compost the rich for growing the pineapple!