Looks Like a Strawberry, Tastes Like a Pineapple

Sounds very interesting. I would be willing to try it if it’s organic.

I’d try it if I found them in the store.

“They are in season for about five weeks, starting in the beginning of April. Are you going to look for it at your local market this April?” – I seem to remember these things as an April Fool spoof from 2010. In theory, according to the 2010 reports, they were going to be exclusive to Waitrose, an upmarket English supermarket. Of course they weren’t. God only knows why ABC have chosen to re-run the story nearly two years later and in January.

Sounds interesting, but really, if you don’t like “the hassle and mess of cutting open a pineapple,” why not just get canned pineapple rings?

Searched pineberries and found this written on the bottom portion of the Wikipedia page aboutmthe subject…”Suspicions of the fruit being an April Fool’s joke were raised due to the timing of the announcement, and a number of sites launched by an internet design and SEO company named Pineberry, a few days before the announcement of the supposed near-extinct fruit.[10] One of the websites detailed the pineberry fruit,[11] however it is identified as Rubus sylvestris, a type of blackberry or raspberry, not a strawberry of the genus Fragaria. Another website showed a jar of pineberry fruit with clear indications that the product is in fact false.[12] All of the websites launched by Pineberry lead back to their main page, which clearly shows that it is an internet design and system development company.[13]
Suspicions were compounded by the fact that the only store that was offering them for sale at the time, Waitrose offered a similar product- a banana-pineapple hybrid (pinanas), that was later revealed to be an April Fool’s joke.[14]“

I’ve personally tried these. They DO exist and were available last summer in FL. With our fruit season getting ready to start, I’m looking forward to having pine berries again!!!