female pineapple????
najara
Okay, now I'm confused. In a book I was reading, there was mention of
the sex of pineapples, and it was said that you should always look for a
female one. Is this true, and if so, how do I go about looking for one?
T
Kari E. Benson
najara <naj...@swbell.net> writes:
Fruit, by definition, is the ovary of a plant. Thus, all fruit
(eggplants, tomatoes, and pineapples) are female.
Kari
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In article <3319E0...@swbell.net>, najara <naj...@swbell.net> writes:
>Subject: female pineapple????
>From: najara <naj...@swbell.net>
>Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 12:16:29 -0800
>
>Okay, now I'm confused. In a book I was reading, there was mention of
>the sex of pineapples, and it was said that you should always look for a
>female one. Is this true, and if so, how do I go about looking for one?
>T
Hello Najara,
This would depend upon whether you're a male or female pineapple. :)
BTW, the pineapple is the world's largest berry.
There are male and female eggplants too, which can be determined by checking the blossom end, the end opposite the stem end. If the spot is round it is a female, and if it's elongated, it's a male, or so I've been told. I've tried both, and noticed no difference. I'm not sure how to determine the sex of a pineapple, but would suspect it would make no difference either, at least not for culinary purposes, but would make a great deal of difference to another pineapple. ;)
I'm really not quite sure how one goes about 'sexing' a pineapple,
but at least with an eggplant, if all else fails, you can [ahem] 'candle' it! :o
I know, I know, it's a bit of a stretch. . .
Sheldon ( Project for tomorrow: Check for an 800# on a can of Dole Pineapple. )
PS I would suspect Dole knows which are the males, after all, they sell a lot of crushed pineapple.
Ray Bruman
najara (naj...@swbell.net) wrote:
: Okay, now I'm confused. In a book I was reading, there was mention of
: female one. Is this true, and if so, how do I go about looking for one?
Ask the store if you can throw some.
The females always throw like a girl.
--
Ray Bruman rbr...@netcom.com
Mimi Hiller
najara wrote:
>
> Okay, now I'm confused. In a book I was reading, there was mention of
> the sex of pineapples, and it was said that you should always look for a
> female one. Is this true, and if so, how do I go about looking for one?
The female pineapple is the one with the smeared lipstick and stockings
rolled down to the ankles.
Oops...I thought this was alt.sex.of.food!
Seriously, I'm not sure about pineapples, but supposedly, eggplants are
divided into male and female...at the bottom (opposite the stem end),
there is a slight, brown line or depression. If this is round, it's
male...oblong, female. The theory is that the female eggplant has more
of the bitter seeds, but I believe the whole thing is hogwash.
This may be similar to pineapple, but with no seeds inside, what's the
point?
Mimi
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Joel Ehrlich
najara wrote about female pineapple???? on 02 Mar 97 12:16:29 saying...
na> Okay, now I'm confused. In a book I was reading, there was mention of
na> the sex of pineapples, and it was said that you should always look for
na> a female one. Is this true, and if so, how do I go about looking for
na> one? T
A pineapple is a fruit. The fruit is the ovary of the plant. Until some
genus is created where males have ovaries, any fruit you find will be
feminine.
Joel
nicole bernadette hansen
I don't know anything about pineapple trees, but there are male date palm
trees and female date palm trees and in order to get dates you need to
artificially inseminate them. This is no joke. I'll post more detail
later if they are desired. I have a book here with info about this.
Nicole
Tracy Karachi
In article <E6Iut...@midway.uchicago.edu>, nbha...@midway.uchicago.edu
(nicole bernadette hansen) wrote:
I remember hearing once a long time ago on a cooking show that there are
male and female eggplant. Supposedly the female is less bitter.
Tracy
penm...@aol.com
In article <karachit-040...@delphi.bc.edu>, kara...@bc.edu (Tracy Karachi) writes:
>Subject: Re: female pineapple????
>From: kara...@bc.edu (Tracy Karachi)
>Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 11:10:31 -0500
>
>In article <E6Iut...@midway.uchicago.edu>, nbha...@midway.uchicago.edu
>(nicole bernadette hansen) wrote:
>
>> I don't know anything about pineapple trees, but there are male date palm
>> trees and female date palm trees and in order to get dates you need to
>> artificially inseminate them. This is no joke. I'll post more detail
>> later if they are desired. I have a book here with info about this.
>>
>> Nicole
Nicole, you are absolutely correct, and as a matter of fact, it was Julia Child who showed clips from her tour of a date farm on one of her cooking shows. One of the film clips actually depicted the artficial insemination proccess. Julia, of course was awe-struck, and was noticeably aquiver while she observed this. I believe upon close examination, one would see, she was literally drooling.
I am not quite certain one would refer to a pineapple plant as a tree, probably more of a bush, with sword-like fronds, resembling a yucca plant.
Sheldon
Joel Ehrlich
Tracy Karachi wrote about female pineapple???? on 04 Mar 97 08:10:31
saying...
TK> I remember hearing once a long time ago on a cooking show that there
TK> are male and female eggplant. Supposedly the female is less bitter.
I have made this statement in the past.
I shall doubtless be called upon to make again in the future.
I shall, however, not be willing to accept a statement such as Tracy's
until some evidence is provided of a male of any species developing one
or more fertile ovum (the fruit of a plant, at last count, still being
the ovary of said plant) and carrying it\them through fertilization.
Or, in the vernacular: There can't be no such thing as a male eggplant!
Or pineapple.
Joel
Joel Ehrlich
nicole bernadette hansen wrote about female pineapple???? on 04 Mar 97
05:58:2
nbh> I don't know anything about pineapple trees, but there are male date
nbh> palm trees and female date palm trees and in order to get dates you
nbh> need to artificially inseminate them. This is no joke. I'll post more
nbh> detail later if they are desired. I have a book here with info about
nbh> this.
nbh> Nicole
What you say is quite true. But the male trees don't bear fruit.
Something about their gender...
Joel
May
Pineapples don't grow on trees. Pineapples grow from the cut off crowns of
pineapples. They are in the Bromeliad family and the fruit grows from the
middle of the crown in about two years.
In Hawaii there is a tree that has fruit that looks a little like a
pineapple and the local's will try to convince you that it is a pineapple
tree.
May
nicole bernadette hansen <nbha...@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote in article
<E6Iut...@midway.uchicago.edu>...
>
> I don't know anything about pineapple trees, but there are male date palm
> trees and female date palm trees and in order to get dates you need to
> artificially inseminate them. This is no joke. I'll post more detail
> later if they are desired. I have a book here with info about this.
>
> Nicole
>
>
Brian Mailman
Just a bit of pineapple trivia--I believe that starting in the late 18th
century, or early 19th, a trading ship would hang a pineapple off the
bow to signify a prosperous run. It then became fashionable at dinner
parties to feature a pineapple on the table to signify the
luxiouriousness of the dinner and to welcome the guests.
The pineapple motif then transmogrified into a symbol of welcome, and
especially in the South, concrete or metal pineapples would be placed
atop entrance gates or doors. Also carved into the legs of dining
tables.
B.
--
Auntie Em: Hate Kansas. Hate you. Taking the dog.
--Dorothy
Bobbie Best
Brian Mailman wrote:
>
snip
> The pineapple motif then transmogrified into a symbol of welcome, and
> especially in the South, concrete or metal pineapples would be placed
> atop entrance gates or doors. Also carved into the legs of dining
> tables.
>
> B.
hhhmmm, I have a really pretty pineapple, four-post, queen size bed,
stored away in my basement. Put it there when I set up my waterbed
twenty some years ago. Maybe I should set up the pineapple bed, it
could give welcome a whole new meaning.
bobbie(but then I'd probably have to move south, huh)
penm...@aol.com
>Subject: Re: female pineapple????
>From: Brian Mailman <bmai...@hooked.net>
>Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:40:32 -0800
>
>Just a bit of pineapple trivia--I believe that starting in the late 18th
>century, or early 19th, a trading ship would hang a pineapple off the
>bow to signify a prosperous run. It then became fashionable at dinner
>parties to feature a pineapple on the table to signify the
>luxiouriousness of the dinner and to welcome the guests.
>
>The pineapple motif then transmogrified into a symbol of welcome, and
>especially in the South, concrete or metal pineapples would be placed
>atop entrance gates or doors. Also carved into the legs of dining
>tables.
>
>B.
>--
> Auntie Em: Hate Kansas. Hate you. Taking the dog.
> --Dorothy
>
>
Yup, the pineapple has since it's introduction to Europe, been the symbol of hospitality.
Sheldon
RCC
...except when atop a pizza.
B. Keith Ryder
In article <karachit-040...@delphi.bc.edu>,
Tracy Karachi <kara...@bc.edu> wrote:
>
> I remember hearing once a long time ago on a cooking show that there are
> male and female eggplant. Supposedly the female is less bitter.
So it's kinda the opposite of humans, huh?
<ducking REALLY low>
--
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Ramone
>
>I don't know anything about pineapple trees, but there are male date palm
>trees and female date palm trees and in order to get dates you need to
>artificially inseminate them. This is no joke. I'll post more detail
>later if they are desired. I have a book here with info about this.
>
>Nicole
>
I don't believe you *inseminate* plants. I believe you *pollinate*
them. These are two very different processes.
Martin & Deborah
I thought pineapples came from the ground, not a tree.
Ramone <Ram...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in article
<33258930...@netnews2.worldnet.att.net>...
Moosemeat
le
>> >
>> I don't believe you *inseminate* plants. I believe you *pollinate*
>> them. These are two very different processes.
>>
down his plum tree this winter and now if my tree don't have somebody to mess
around with I'm afraid it will be a fruitless summer.
.....................
. -MOOSEMEAT- .
.....................
Pat Caruthers
|> I'm afraid I now have a virgin plum tree in my backyard. The neighbor cut
|> down his plum tree this winter and now if my tree don't have somebody to mess
|> around with I'm afraid it will be a fruitless summer.
uhm,
unless your tree nevever messed around before (didja have fruit last year?)
then i don't think it can claim to be a virgin. well, mebbe a born-again
virgin.
pat
RCC
Ramone wrote:
>
> On Tue, 4 Mar 1997 13:58:21 GMT, nbha...@midway.uchicago.edu (nicole
> bernadette hansen) wrote:
>
> >
> >I don't know anything about pineapple trees, but there are male date palm
> >trees and female date palm trees and in order to get dates you need to
> >artificially inseminate them. This is no joke. I'll post more detail
> >later if they are desired. I have a book here with info about this.
> >
> >Nicole
> >
Ramone, you haven't lived...
Val
In article <moosemeat.9...@halcyon.com>,
Moosemeat <moos...@halcyon.com> wrote:
>>>
>I'm afraid I now have a virgin plum tree in my backyard. The neighbor cut
>down his plum tree this winter and now if my tree don't have somebody to mess
>around with I'm afraid it will be a fruitless summer.
>
Ed, that's plum depressing.....
Val
Val
In article <bkeithE6...@netcom.com>,
B. Keith Ryder <bke...@netcom.com> wrote:
>In article <karachit-040...@delphi.bc.edu>,
>Tracy Karachi <kara...@bc.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I remember hearing once a long time ago on a cooking show that there are
>> male and female eggplant. Supposedly the female is less bitter.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>So it's kinda the opposite of humans, huh?
>
>
><ducking REALLY low>
>
You got the LOW part right!!! ;-)
Val
madam...@aol.com
>unless your tree nevever messed around before (didja have fruit last year?)
>then i don't think it can claim to be a virgin. well, mebbe a born-again
>virgin
I believe the Politically Correct term is Secondary Virgin.
.....Sharon-wondering if secondary virgins would reproduce arithmetically or geometrically?
Ray Bruman
RCC (rcol...@extro.ucc.su.au) wrote:
: > I don't believe you *inseminate* plants.
Can anyone tell us how the Jackfruit got its name?
I already understand about Breadfruit and Grapefruit.
--
Ray Bruman rbr...@netcom.com
Beth R. Jarvis
On Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:29:07 PST,
Moosemeat <moos...@halcyon.com > wrote:
>I'm afraid I now have a virgin plum tree in my backyard. The neighbor cut
>down his plum tree this winter and now if my tree don't have somebody to mess
>around with I'm afraid it will be a fruitless summer.
Hey Moosemeat!
Fear not! If there's a compatible plum anywhere around, within bee
flying distance, your plum should be well pollinated.
Beth Jarvis Hart
Minnesota--where you can forget the ice cream in the trunk overnight
or over week.
Ray Bruman
Beth R. Jarvis (jarv...@gold.tc.umn.edu) wrote:
: Fear not! If there's a compatible plum anywhere around, within bee
Last summer I saw one honeybee. About 90% of the wild bees are dead
already, from varroa and tracheal mites. No end in sight.
California needs 100,000 hives just for the almond crop alone, which
has no other pollinator.
Stock up on almonds and honey (avoid crappy Chinese imported honey)
and do what you can to discourage pesticides killing more bees.
Oh, and be nice to bats, too. Only about 1 in 1,000 ever gets
rabies, and the only way it can pass to humans is if you pick up
a sick bat that can't fly away and it bites you. Or, as in one
case, if you are a dumb biker in a bar that tried to bite a bat's
head off a la Meat Loaf, and you get bitten, AND refuse treatment.
In that case, you will in fact die, and as Travis P. Tritt says...
"Here's Your Sign."
Bees and bats were the topic of the most recent meeting of
California Rare Fruit Growers, Golden Gate Chapter.
--
Ray Bruman rbr...@netcom.com
Andreas Ramos
Ray Bruman (rbr...@netcom.com) wrote:
: Oh, and be nice to bats, too. Only about 1 in 1,000 ever gets
: rabies...
I wonder about that every time I hear somebody tell me that "bats carry
rabies" (and they usually say it just as I've rescued another bat from my
cat's Jaws of Death. The bat will be screaming for help and her mate will
be flying around, trying to save her. I'll grab the bat, force open my
cat's jaws, and pitch the bat into the air, where she'll fly away. Once
she couldn't fly, and Susan and I made a little nest for her with one of
Susan's T-shirts and put the bat into a spare bedroom, with an open
window and a bowl of milk. The next day she was gone.
Bats carry rabies because they are mammals. Women are mammals too. Ergo
women carry rabies. Proof: Stephanie has rabies. But is she a woman or a
bat? Obviously not a bat: bats are kind little creatures.
As others have pointed out: Steffy's usenet postings are wierdly
correlated to lunar cycles. A full moon brings out her rabid howling. I
certainly don't want to bring up werewolves, but... do they carry rabies
too?
--
--
yrs, andreas
_______________________________________________________________________
Andreas Ramos and...@andreas.com www.andreas.com
Susan Murie
In article <andreasE...@netcom.com>, and...@netcom.com (Andreas
Ramos) wrote:
>
> Bats carry rabies because they are mammals. Women are mammals too. Ergo
> women carry rabies. Proof: Stephanie has rabies. But is she a woman or a
> bat? Obviously not a bat: bats are kind little creatures.
>
> As others have pointed out: Steffy's usenet postings are wierdly
> correlated to lunar cycles. A full moon brings out her rabid howling. I
> certainly don't want to bring up werewolves, but... do they carry rabies
> too?
>
> --
> --
> yrs, andreas
This is the best humored rambling I have read on here in a while! Thanks,
Andreas.
OB
Here is a recipe:
It's really good so I really don't want to hear from any of you that think
tofu is stupid or evil. Grow Up!
Silken Chocolate Pie.
from my friend Joy Steinberg
This is an easy and good chocolate pie.
2 cartons firm silken (Japanese) tofu
6-8 ozs chocolate chips
2 tablespoons maple syrup
1 graham cracker crust, homemade is best!
Beat tofu in blender about 3 minutes or
so until smooth. Melt
chocolate chips and beat into tofu mixture.
Beat in maple syrup. Pour into
prepared crust. Chill at least 2 hours.
--
Susan K. Murie
Don't hit reply button to send me mail!
Real address: susanm at xensei dot com
http://www.xensei.com/users/susanm
Nancy Dooley
>
>OB
>Here is a recipe:
>It's really good so I really don't want to hear from any of you that think
>tofu is stupid or evil. Grow Up!
>
>Silken Chocolate Pie.
>from my friend Joy Steinberg
>
>This is an easy and good chocolate pie.
>
>2 cartons firm silken (Japanese) tofu
>6-8 ozs chocolate chips
>2 tablespoons maple syrup
>1 graham cracker crust, homemade is best!
>
What is the nutritional analysis of this chocolate pie compared with a
regular chocolate cream pie? The only difference I can see is that
tofu is substituted for the cooked custard portion of a regular pie.
If skim milk is used in a traditional custard pie filling, how much
"better" is tofu? I would think most of the fat grams/calories would
come from the chocolate.
Just curious.
Nancy.
"You're only young once, but you can be immature
forever."
Brian Mailman
Reminds me of an old summer-camp fire song. And as long as you asked,
"Caviar comes from a virgin sturgeon
a virgin sturgeon is a very nice fish
a virgin sturgeon needs no urgin'
That's why caviar is my dish!"
Do not ask what kind of summer camps I was sent to...
Rain
BM->Reminds me of an old summer-camp fire song. And as long as you asked,
BM->"Caviar comes from a virgin sturgeon
BM-> a virgin sturgeon is a very nice fish
BM-> a virgin sturgeon needs no urgin'
BM-> That's why caviar is my dish!"
At my camp, we sang the second couplet as:
"Very few sturgeons wanna be virgins;
that's why caviar's a fine, fine dish."
---
ş OLX 2.1 TD ş Pagans ARE born again. And again, and again, and...
Brian Mailman
Rain wrote:
I wrote:
> BM->Reminds me of an old summer-camp fire song. And as long as you asked,
>
> BM->"Caviar comes from a virgin sturgeon
> BM-> a virgin sturgeon is a very nice fish
> BM-> a virgin sturgeon needs no urgin'
> BM-> That's why caviar is my dish!"
>
> At my camp, we sang the second couplet as:
>
> "Very few sturgeons wanna be virgins;
> that's why caviar's a fine, fine dish."
Thankyew. My education is now complete. (LOL)
Gail Lehr
RCC wrote:
>
> Ramone wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 4 Mar 1997 13:58:21 GMT, nbha...@midway.uchicago.edu (nicole
> > bernadette hansen) wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >I don't know anything about pineapple trees, but there are male date palm
> > >trees and female date palm trees and in order to get dates you need to
> > >artificially inseminate them. This is no joke. I'll post more detail
> > >later if they are desired. I have a book here with info about this.
> > >
> > >Nicole
> > >
>
not grow on trees. I have a picture of me bending over trying to pull
one out of the dirt road. It looks like those tropical house plants
with a clump of long, thin leaves and one usually pink or red flower
coming out of the center. A type of bromeliad, I think.
Gail
Idlewild
Nancy Dooley <nancy-...@uiowa.edu> wrote:
> >2 cartons firm silken (Japanese) tofu
> >6-8 ozs chocolate chips
> >2 tablespoons maple syrup
> >1 graham cracker crust, homemade is best!
> >
> What is the nutritional analysis of this chocolate pie compared with a
> regular chocolate cream pie? The only difference I can see is that
> tofu is substituted for the cooked custard portion of a regular pie.
>
> If skim milk is used in a traditional custard pie filling, how much
> "better" is tofu? I would think most of the fat grams/calories would
> come from the chocolate.
rather than to look at fat/calories, look at protein content! remember,
tofu is the vegetarian champion of protein.
-j.
--
Will cook for food.
Nancy Dooley
On Sun, 16 Mar 1997 22:51:51 -0500, idle...@webspan.net (Idlewild)
wrote:
>>
>> If skim milk is used in a traditional custard pie filling, how much
>> "better" is tofu? I would think most of the fat grams/calories would
>> come from the chocolate.
>
>rather than to look at fat/calories, look at protein content! remember,
>tofu is the vegetarian champion of protein.
>
>-j.
>--
>Will cook for food.
O.k., I guess if one is a vegetarian, one needs protein even from
dessert. ;-)
Thanks.
Valerie
In article <332d8e92...@news.uiowa.edu>,
Nancy Dooley <nancy-...@uiowa.edu> wrote:
>On Sun, 16 Mar 1997 22:51:51 -0500, idle...@webspan.net (Idlewild)
>wrote:
>
>>>
>>> If skim milk is used in a traditional custard pie filling, how much
>>> "better" is tofu? I would think most of the fat grams/calories would
>>> come from the chocolate.
>>
>>rather than to look at fat/calories, look at protein content! remember,
>>tofu is the vegetarian champion of protein.
>
>dessert. ;-)
Or if one eats dessert for breakfast! ;-)
Val
bgarne...@gmail.com
dsi1
> In article <andreasE...@netcom.com>, and...@netcom.com (Andreas
> Ramos) wrote:
>
> >
> > Bats carry rabies because they are mammals. Women are mammals too. Ergo
> > women carry rabies. Proof: Stephanie has rabies. But is she a woman or a
> > bat? Obviously not a bat: bats are kind little creatures.
> >
> > As others have pointed out: Steffy's usenet postings are wierdly
> > correlated to lunar cycles. A full moon brings out her rabid howling. I
> > certainly don't want to bring up werewolves, but... do they carry rabies
> > too?
> >
> > --
> > --
> > yrs, andreas
>
> This is the best humored rambling I have read on here in a while! Thanks,
> Andreas.
>
> Here is a recipe:
> It's really good so I really don't want to hear from any of you that think
> tofu is stupid or evil. Grow Up!
>
> Silken Chocolate Pie.
> from my friend Joy Steinberg
>
> This is an easy and good chocolate pie.
>
> 6-8 ozs chocolate chips
> 2 tablespoons maple syrup
> 1 graham cracker crust, homemade is best!
>
> so until smooth. Melt
> chocolate chips and beat into tofu mixture.
> Beat in maple syrup. Pour into
> prepared crust. Chill at least 2 hours.
>
> --
> Susan K. Murie
> Don't hit reply button to send me mail!
> Real address: susanm at xensei dot com
> http://www.xensei.com/users/susanm
Thomas
shucki...@gmail.com
> Pineapples don't grow on trees. Pineapples grow from the cut off crowns of
> pineapples. They are in the Bromeliad family and the fruit grows from the
> middle of the crown in about two years.
> In Hawaii there is a tree that has fruit that looks a little like a
> pineapple and the local's will try to convince you that it is a pineapple
> tree.
Most of the time, this is meant as a prank. The fruit referenced is probably either hala (pandanus), noni (cheesefruit), or ulu (breadfruit). This is in the same vein as the locals who are on vacation elsewhere trying to convince mainland people that they live in grass shacks and paddle a canoe to school/work. In any case, as a rule of thumb, if the plant is taller than a panel van, it is not a pineapple.
col...@gmail.com
jmcquown
Jill
shucki...@gmail.com
hgbu...@gmail.com
> Okay, now I'm confused. In a book I was reading, there was mention of
> the sex of pineapples, and it was said that you should always look for a
> female one. Is this true, and if so, how do I go about looking for one?
> T
YES PINEAPPLE HAVE SEX BUT DON'T EAT BOY THAT GAYYYY
