The Story of the Pineapple

The story of the pineapple is, in many ways, the story of the columbian exchange. It was a valuable commodity cultivated almost entirely by colonized or enslaved people. The literal fruit of their labor exported by wealthy colonizers to be consumed by even wealthier aristocracy. This economic inequality built into european pineapple production and consumption did not go unnoticed at the time. And that question still resognates as most global pineapple production relies on low wage labor.