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PineBerry Anyone??

  • 31-03-2010 10:42am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 957 ✭✭✭


    Sorry if this is in wrong Forum. But came across this in the news today!

    Q.Why would you want a Strawberry that taste like a pineapple Seriously? Anyone in OA Like to try one:)

    what looks like a strawberry, but is white and tastes like a pineapple?


    A pineberry, of course.


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    The berries will go on sale in 45 Waitrose stores for the next five weeks


    The freaky fruit will go on sale at selected Waitrose stores from today.
    While the delicacy might look like a faded strawberry, it is said to have the exotic flavour and smell of a pineapple.
    If the pineberry tantalises your tastebuds, you best be quick - they are only in season for the next five weeks.
    The fruit, which has the same genetic make-up as the common strawberry, originated in South America where it grew wild.
    It had been near to extinction until seven years ago when Dutch farmers saved it.
    Now it is grown commercially in glasshouses, turning from green to white and are ripe when the seeds turn dark red.
    Waitrose fruit buyer Nicki Baggott said: "Pineberries offer our customers the chance to add a new fruit into their diet and the berry's bright appearance can add an unusual decoration to sweet dishes.
    "As the summer unfolds we won't be surprised to hear that our customers are inviting their friends over for pineberry pavlovas, punch or serving them up with yogurt for a lighter alternative."
    :: A 125g punnet of pineberries will sell for £2.99 until April 13, and afterwards for £3.99.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Jet Black


    April fools!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,776 ✭✭✭Noopti


    It's this very reason why I hate April Fools. 99% of the "jokes" are pure ****e......and annoying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    It's March. Bloody idiots.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭MaybeLogic


    Nah. It was in the Daily Mail yesterday, so it must be true.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Does the daily mail publish factual stories on April 1, or how does that work?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,918 ✭✭✭The_B_Man


    F**k i love pineapples! And i love strawberries!!! :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭Theta


    The strawberries taste like strawberries, and the snozzberries taste like snozzberries and the Pineberries taste like pineapples.......wait what?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    YOU CAN'T PLAY GOD DAMN IT!!!! YOU FOOLS THESE GENETICALLY MODIFIED FRUIT WILL KILL US ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:


    Oh wait, they're not genetically modified?


    I retract my statement.


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