Trouble eating pineapple?

@trev33 said
No, pineapple in the pinnacle of all fruit... After mango and papaya, also passion fruit.

What do you do to the pineapple before you eat it, aside from removing the skin or husk [whatever it is]?

@the-gravedigger said
Got stabbed by a cocktail stick at a wine and cheese party.

I've already apologized for that, few too many sangrias.

@fmf said
What do you do to the pineapple before you eat it, aside from removing the skin or husk [whatever it is]?

I use it on a pizza.

@trev33 said
Pineapple is best cut into chunks then eaten with a fork if eaten alone or put into a fruit salad. It also makes fantastic juices.

Here, if you want a plate of pineapple chucks, unless you are going to eat them within about ten minutes, you need to be soaking them in very mild brine. Not so salty that you can't taste the sweetness, mind you. But this precaution is vital.

Today, I blew it badly. I cut up a whole, chilled, fresh, already-peeled pineapple that had been in the fridge into chunks with a plan to eat them all quite quickly. But I tired of them a bit and slowed down. Ouch.

For the first ten minutes, the chunks were delicious. Then they very gradually started tasting kind of tangy [not sour or bitter, though - more akin to "spicy"]. Then they started to make my mouth itch.

I persevered a bit too long. My mouth was really hurting. It was way, way beyond tingly. The front part of the tongue, the inside of the lips, and even the corners of the mouth.

This itchiness felt a little bit like a couple of days after your mouth gets burned on some hot foot and is a bit "raw".

A couple of hours later, I found my lunch a bit difficult to chew: there was a bit of a broken glass feeling.

I sorted this out with some cold milk swilled around for a few seconds and a sweet banana masticated for longer than you normally would.

I had chopped up more than I could eat rapidly enough.

No wonder people here, including myself normally, soak sliced pineapple in a very mild brine. If you don't, and the chunks have been in the open air for too long, it can be pretty unpleasant.

@torunn said
I use it on a pizza.

Yikes!

@torunn said
I use it on a pizza.

I can eat it in polite company where there is no alternative but I would NEVER order a pizza with pineapple on it.

@fmf said
Have you had any bad incidents?

Only outside of Hawaii.

@kewpie said
I love fresh pineapple, but eating it gives me mouth ulcers. 🥴

THIS

@kewpie said
I love fresh pineapple, but eating it gives me mouth ulcers. 🥴

...but not immediately, right? If you stop after a few chunks, no pain?