so upset :(

[pinkglttr]

My pineapple is yucky on the inside and fuzzy on the outside! How do you know how to buy a good pineapple? Apparently mine was too old!

I have never had a bad experience before, but what a waste of money and a whole pineapple in the trash :mad:

I just bought it a couple days ago! I looooove pineapple!

:(

[spicyfull]

I have taken Stuff back to the store I purchased it at.
I think there is nothing like to smell of a pineapple that tell me, I'm ripe. I also look for the Yellow at the bottom and up the side........

[romanticsnet]

Well... I have had great luck with pineapples after following some tips I found in books. So far I have been in pineapple heaven! I read somewhere that you look for tops that look very healthy, with undamaged leaves that are also unbent. You can tell the ripeness if the innermost leaves remove easily if you try plucking it. Also, the color of the pineapple has nothing to do with the ripeness. I try to look for ones that are unmoldy at the bottom. Then. store in the fridge and use within a few days. Smell the pineapple, and make sure they are not too soft. One more thing, I absolutely love my pineapple corer! Do a search and see what you find. It makes perfect spirals... you just cut off the top of the pineapple, insert the corer, and twist. Perfect spiral every time!

[Lady Green Jeans]

I second the "take it back" suggestion. I have done this any time that I have had bad produce, etc. They stores advertise customer satisfacation and mean it. A few times, I did not keep the bad produce in question, but talked to the produce guy. The stores really do stand behind it. As my mother-in-law says, "It looks better in your pocket."

[Frog]

I am fed up with buying avocados - they are either too raw and hard or else when you cut them open they are brown right through, ggrrrrrrrrr :(

The only store I can guarantee getting top quality and perfectly ripe avocados is Waitrose - but you have to pay for the 'perfectly ripe' angle.

[Lay-Lay]

I will third that take back.

Frog - I buy mine unripe and with just a day to 3 days on the counter they are perfectly ripe-----yummy!

[MagicalDaze]

Frog - I have had exactly the same experience & wasted many a dollar! But I accidentally discovered that in the case of the not yet ripe ones - if ya put em in the frig, even after cutting open, they will continue to ripen... and a a few days later - perfection!

[Goldsplinter]

I am fed up with buying avocados - they are either too raw and hard or else when you cut them open they are brown right through, ggrrrrrrrrr :(

The only store I can guarantee getting top quality and perfectly ripe avocados is Waitrose - but you have to pay for the 'perfectly ripe' angle.
In miami they have great avocados. I heard in texas that they suck.

[Queen Shelley]

Pineapples, as much yellow on the outside as possible, sweet smell too. Avocado, buy nice hard ones, they'll ripen in a few days. Summer faster than winter. If you buy softer ones, they've been 'squeedged' by too many people= bruised. You test for ripeness by squeezing it yourself...gently. If it has a nice 'give' it is ripe..sort of like a peach when ripe. Love, love love them! :D