Question about Pineapple Skin

Ditto. It's all so Merchant Ivory...

I had two dear friends in high school from Johannisberg (violinists in my orchestra). Ernie was always teaching me Afrikaans words. Were you in the south?

Love reading the imagaery of your trip down memory lane, especially imagining everyone dressed in the lovely whites.

I cannot wait to try the pineapple ginger beer!

 
Easy way to wash all suspect fruit and veg.....

Get a large bowl (place it on the aft deck of the yacht)
Buy and transport the bunch of bananas, all ground starch, coconuts and any thing else that looks like it can be eaten, in a dinghy that gets splashed with muddy or salty water...
The first rinse off.
Approach the back of the yacht and hand up the heavy purchases.
Keep the goods close together so little critters are not encouraged to find their homes somewhere else.
Pour a large amount of clorox into fresh water in the bowls/s and submerge all fruit and veg. deep in the water while you change into swimwear.
Take out all fruit and veg and lay it neatly out on the deck to dry.
Hang up the bananas.
Store the other fruit and veg in the appropriate lockers.
Lie back in hammocks slung across the deck and enjoy the cool breeze while eating a banana.
It seemed to work very well (for 15 years) and none of us ever got sick!

 
Richard.....

We had friends who kept pigs in South Africa in a very up market suburb, a wine growing area (all mink and manure). They used to go to the factories that produced bags of chips and made savoury crackers and fed loads of these cereal type goods, not fit to be sold, to the pigs.
The meat was so unbelievably good. Much better even than the meat we got from our other friends who actually had a pig farm and they fed their pigs on organic meal etc.
And although that meat was by far better than that one bought from the butcher...the chip fed pigs gave meat that won hands down!!!!!

 
You could barely peel your pineapple thus getting rid of the "husk".

then slice it down to where the eyes are removed. Now cut it to remove the eyes and do what you seem to want to do.

 
Gretchen, yeah, I thought about doing that...

but unless I had a industrial strength vegetable peeler (a.k.a. "bandsaw") to do that fine veneer peeling, it just looked like too much of a PITA to try it with that very uneven texture. I decided that the time to do this vs. the cost of just spending another $3 for a pineapple just wasn't worth my time. But in theory, yes!

PS: loved your idea of crabcakes on fried green tomatoes, never have used FGT's as a crouton and it's about time! LOL : )

 
I could do it with my chef's knife, I believe--certainly not a veggie peeler.

I'm not really meaning a fine peel--just a lot less than the depth you need to get past the eyes.

 
Ever watch Dirty Jobs on the Discovery channel? Mike Rowe went to a hog farm....

and it was hysterical watching him chase down escaped pigs, but he had to deal with mixing their "gruel" or whatever you call it, so gross, he was glad it wasn't his regular job.

 
Joanie, do you need help washing your produce? I could be there in a few hours...

It's cold and foggy here today and a spot of the Carribean sounds so so nice! LOL

 
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