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They Quietly Replaced All Grocery Pineapples

20 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Kashif Khan explains that grocery stores routinely remove pineapple crowns, a practice that prevents consumers from easily regrowing pineapples at home—a method that has been used for centuries. He argues that by eliminating the crown, retailers ensure repeat purchases. Khan highlights Del Monte’s patented pink pineapple, which took 16 years to develop and is sold without its crown, further restricting propagation through legal terms. He frames these actions as corporate strategies to control plant ownership and warns that such practices could become more widespread if unnoticed, urging viewers to follow his daily content for similar insights.

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Take a look at the pineapples in your grocery store. The tops are gone, and the reason why they're doing this is going to shock most people. First, here's what most people don't realize about pineapples: they're one of the easiest things on Earth to regrow. Cut the crown off, let it dry a couple of days, put it in water or soil, and you get a whole new pineapple. No seeds needed. That's how pineapples have been propagated for thousands of years. Now remove the crown and that option is gone. And now think about why anyone would want that. If you can regrow a pineapple at home, you buy one pineapple. If you can't, you keep coming back to buy another one every single time. And there's one they've made absolutely certain you can never regrow. Del Monte's pink pineapple took 16 years to develop and it's patented. It gets sold with the crown deliberately cut off so you can't propagate it. And their terms don't allow you to grow it anyway. So you can buy the fruit, you can never have the plant. And it's a preview of exactly where this goes if nobody pays attention. Make sure to follow because I post stuff like this every single day.