California grocery store selling a limited-edition pineapple for $400

jeffw@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.world – 138 points –
California grocery store selling a limited-edition pineapple for $400
independent.co.uk
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This is normal in Japan.

Perfect-looking fruits and vegetables (and giant tunafish) regularly get sold at premiums in grocery stores or are auctioned off. Sometimes it makes the news.

Yall can buy the good looking fruit. I’ll take my ugly ass pineapples for a discount any day.

But does it taste any different? The article makes no claims other than looks.

Usually when I see stuff like this on YouTube the people trying it say something along the lines of “it’s good, and it was nice to try it, but it’s not worth the price.”

prolly tastes freaking nasty. or it's texture is horrible.

Or it tastes really good and has a good texture which is why this luxury person decided to put money into creating and cultivating and then sell it at exorbitant prices. But, nah, let's just assume the worst. Rich people, amirite?

I bet it tastes really pineappley.

I'm a little bit late to the pineapple party but I wanted to say that I recently saw a 6 oz container of non organic blueberries for over $9 and I thought THAT was outrageous.

That’s some Alaska shit right there