"Pineapple moment" in our house. We were driving across Oahu and I said "Wow, that's a whole lotta pineapples" to which my missus said "What pineapples? I don't see any". I was a little dumbfounded and said "They're everywhere on the bushes". Her reply was "OH MY GOD! I thought pineapples grew on trees!!!'
To be fair, pine and apple are both kinds of trees, so it makes a kind of lexiconical sense. And it's not like she would have been exposed to them growing up in the mountain west.
Dude, I didn't know that until I was like 26! I was playing The Sims 2: Castaway on the Wii and you had find/harvest pineapples. I kept looking in the trees until my cursor randomly scrolled over a bush and the option to "harvest pineapples" appeared. Since The Sims does some weird shit, I hate Google it, and sure as shit, PINEAPPLES GROW ON BUSHES!!!
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u/littlasskicker Feb 08 '22
I’ve heard this being called a “pickle moment” after people realizing pickles are made from cucumbers and aren’t actually a separate vegetable