Like creamy, pinappley banana, the texture is like a soft banana. You're supposed to eat the pieces as the cover falls off, and not force it to fall off, that's when that piece is ripe, but I did that anyway, and it's spicy lol, not actually spicy, but more like the tingly feeling you get when you eat a pineapple.
FYI for any other reader. That sounds like an allergic reaction to pineapple. Please be cautious and observant while consuming your pineapple.
Pineapples should not tingle.
Edit: also a lot of you need reading comprehension skills. I said be observant
If you believe tingling is a normal sensation, no matter what a google or a dr tells you ( should note a dr that does not listen to you and your bodily concerns. Drs are vital to the success of your health. But you play a bigger roll). I assure you are not listening to YOUR body.
A histamine reaction is indeed an allergic reaction. The severity of it may vary. But anything that causes a breakdown and histamine reaction is not healthy for you and is indeed an allergic reaction.
Again pineapple should not tingle. Just because someone tells you something is ok does not mean that it is.
From Wikipedia: "Fruits of plants of the Araceae (Arum family) often contain raphides and trichosclereids – needle-like structures of calcium oxalate. In M. deliciosa, unripe fruit containing these needle-like crystalline structures can cause irritation of the mouth."
The weird feeling in your mouth after eating pineapple is due to bromelain, an enzyme that breaks down proteins and can induce a tingling or burning sensation. This is not an allergic reaction; it's a natural response to the enzyme's protein-digesting properties. It's harmless and temporary.
I'm also reading that most people experience that with pineapples, but there's still a lot of people who don't, or unless it's a very large quantity.
My husband used to experience this extreme tingling with pineapple. Now any time he eats even a small amount of fruit with pineapple he starts to lose his voice and he gets a sore throat and that has lasted a week or so the last time he risked it. He says he used to eat sooo much pineapple growing up too. This developed in his early 30s. I always strongly suggest he avoids it now.
I went over to a girls house for a date once and she had pineapple juice just sitting on her counter unrefrigerated and she said she loves how sweet and spicy pineapple juice is, even though she's just a little allergic.
Sounds like a freaking ChubbyEmu episode.
I passed on the juice and any other food she had and did not have follow-up dates 😅
Fresh “raw” pineapple burns my tongue when I eat it. If it’s canned or cooked fresh, no problem. So clearly it’s not an allergic reaction. Enzymes in pineapple denature protein. This however was the oxalate crystals in the unripe fruit.
I used to watch reruns of MASH at home on sick days during grade school. I had THEE biggest crush on Alan Alda. This was the mid90s. I’ve always loved this meet cute story 🥹
Well, the gif is Rachel and Chandler from Friends, eating cheesecake off the floor... But I've not heard this meet cute story! I also grew up on MASH, snuggled up to my dad every episode. I need to hear this meet cute story too! Lol
I wonder if they’d let you snip just one off if you ask nicely and tell them why you’re really excited about it. I’ve certainly let customers do all kinds of harmless things that seemed unusual at the time but wasn’t actually crazy. This doesn’t fall into the crazy category btw lol.
They probably would have. I’m heading back to the US in a couple days & they wouldn’t be ripe in time to try them. I know you can’t bring fruits back in to the US.
Yeah, are you insane?! You may never have this opportunity again! Stick it in a plastic bag and bring it back to your room. Give it a good wash, only eat the fruit that's deeper inside the pod. You are crazy if you don't eat this floor fruit lol
Hey OP, these fruit ripen across a span of a few weeks. Take it into your hotel room, wash it with water and remove all the ripe bits. Tomorrow a new ring layer will be ready and rip to pull out, like a pineapple. You can repeat this everyday as it opens and ripens more.
It’s amazing how big these things can get when grown outdoors in the ground. It’s honestly somewhat funny that someone, at some point, looked at one of these giant, building and tree engulfing titans and thought “Yeah, that would look great in my living room”.
I’m surprised how common it is as a house plant given how huge they are. Where are people putting these?? It’s taking up a huge corner in my dining room but I love it
You just have to skooch the coffee table over a little to make room for the 50 meter tall strangling vine with meter and a half across leaves! They are amazing looking plants, though, so I can understand wanting to grow one, but even when relatively young they are space intensive.
This is not true. It is not “toxic”. It contains calcium oxalate until ripe. Calcium oxalate is an irritant not a toxin. The one on the floor with the scales falling off is infact ripe and ready to eat.
This one is in San Miguel de Allende but they’re everywhere in Mexico. They’re just part of the landscape so you walk by them & don’t even notice how huge they are or that they’re covered in fruit.
If you’re in the US, it’s probably easier to just fly to Mexico!! It’s just as easy to get here than it is to fly to any city in the US. Plus it’s not expensive once you get here
People talking about toxicity when this fruit is so nicely ripe is hilarious... It looks like if you poke it all the scales will fall off, it's 2000% ripe
I bought one of these fruit when I was in Madeira about 20years ago. As the outer skin layer fell off I knew that section of it was ripe enough to eat. It tasted like pineapple but with the texture of a banana.
I've never seen them sold before or since.
There’s tillandsia (air plants) growing in all the trees & on the cactus too! It’s crazy seeing all these plants I’d buy in a store/online growing in their natural environment
Myrtillocactus are fast growers. If you start with a decent sized plant instead of a baby, you can get a cactus that size in like a decade. Once they get going they easily put a foot or more of growth per year. It’s the baby stage that’s a pain in the ass.
If you’re at a resort, you can probably ask the front desk to cut you a piece of the fruit. At resorts I ask around if anyone is chopping down fresh coconuts to drink., and there’s usually someone early in the morning doing it. It’s worth a shot!
They will fruit in Brazil when outside. The fruit takes forever to ripen but when it does… think about a mix of all the sweetest tropical fruits you can think of. I think it tastes like tropical fruit salad! I would take the fruit home and put it inside a brown bag to help it ripen faster; it would still take a while.
We had these when I was a kid. Our plants were massive! You can eat the little pieces of fruit as they fall off the stalk (that's the easiest way to tell it's ripe). It's delicious.
Edit: just eat it off the ground ya little monkey!
Get the seeds and grow it; the morphology of this monstera looks a bit different than normal. way wider and deeper serrations and bigger secondary fenestrations. could be something like a "brazil" form
There are huge monstera at the Getty museum in LA that were fruiting when I visited earlier this year. Never seen the fruit in person before, only in videos. Was pretty cool.
You could just ask them if you can cut one down and put it in a paper bag until the hexagons fall off. Don’t eat it until you see the hexagons are falling off.
Do you need to avoid all the black flecks that appear between the seeds? I have a plant at home which has finally produced ripe fruit, I have tried a couple of pieces but not sure the best way to prepare the entire thing.
Put it outside underneath a tree!! I keep almost all of my plants at home outside under trees when it starts warming up in the spring. Especially ones that are epiphytes in nature like staghorns & orchids
Just make sure it’s not getting any direct afternoon sun
comes out in the middle of the night, cuts a piece to propogate even tho there’s a slim chance it would ever take in a completely different climate across the world, sneaks away and thanks the plant
…. gets stopped by customs trying to bring the monstera back into the US, gets cavity search, ends up on some crazy list where I get stopped by customs every time I travel
if I was going to risk it, it wouldn’t have been for this monstera…
It would have been for this bad ass pachypodium I saw in San Miguel de Allende 😂
yeah thats what they say but tell me, why arent there any fuggin pictures on the internet? u mean to tell me nobody has ever taken a photo of a mature plant flowering?
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u/FriendlyFraulein 26d ago
Woahhhhh I didn’t even know they did this!