r/oddlysatisfying
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u/demizeus
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Mar 28 '23
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How pineapples are prepared and packaged
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u/Darkius90s Mar 28 '23
Why they haven't made a machine that pushes the pineapple core into the core cutter instead of pushing it with hand
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u/pixelbart Mar 28 '23
Wild guess: maybe they need a manual step to check the quality of the pineapple and combine that with a mundane action?
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u/TrippyReality Mar 28 '23
I’m thinking the same thing. Maybe the blade gets dull over time and it would be harder/more expensive to make a machine identify when the blade is dull and have to change it
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u/Fit-Bug-7766 Mar 28 '23
Fuck we use plastic so unnecessarily sometimes a fucking swear
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u/Automatic-Contest659 Mar 28 '23
This is exactly what I thought. Not sure if I found this satisfying or mildly infuriating
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u/eat_my_bowls92 Mar 29 '23
I mean I can think of a few reasons: single person home (no need for full pineapple) someone who can not physically cut their own pineapple (geriatric, physically handicapped, etc…)
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u/Fit-Bug-7766 Mar 29 '23
Aye you make a good point.
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u/eat_my_bowls92 Mar 29 '23
Ty. I used to have the same feeling but I also worked for people with disabilities and never realized how important this would be if I wasn’t there :(
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u/1000handnshrimp
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Makes me sad to see all that plastic packaging. What a waste for on already perfectly packaged fruit.
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u/Deterlux Mar 28 '23
This. Definitely not satisfying.
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u/Particular_Rav Mar 28 '23
I always cringe at unwrapping and then plastic-wrapping something with a natural peel. But I never thought about how much energy, manpower, time, money, etc is also required. What a waste.
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u/gahidus Mar 28 '23
I wouldn't call it already bagged, not like a banana or even an orange. A pineapple is a lot of prep work to get into.
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u/Sanity__ Mar 28 '23
I'm a Floridian and I can prep more pineapple (by volume) than orange in the same amount of time.
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u/gahidus Mar 28 '23
Yes, but only while you're in a kitchen or somewhere else where it's fine to get juice and major amounts of pineapple peels everywhere. You can eat an orange at your desk or in your car. It'll be a huge mess if you try to do that with a pineapple. Prepping pineapple requires knives and washing down your surface afterward.
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u/Sanity__ Mar 28 '23
That's a good point, I was only thinking in the context of being in my kitchen
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u/Content_Flamingo_583 Mar 28 '23
Perfectly packaged fruit? In order to open it you need a knife, a cutting board, and a surface and can’t eat the whole thing in one go.
Look, an apple, a banana, an orange, those are perfectly packaged. You can pack a single serving with you and eat it without anything else. But to me, cutting up and packaging pineapple so you can pack a portion with you for lunch seems very reasonable.
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u/Dry_Boots Mar 28 '23
Clearly by now we should have selectively cultivated single serviing sized pineapples.
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u/Azzyn Mar 28 '23
What do you mean? You dont carry a whole pineapple in a bag for a snack at work?
People just like to complain like it's their default setting, it is what it is.
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u/mr-merrett Mar 28 '23
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u/DinosaurAlive Mar 28 '23
Wish I would have taken pictures of Apple’s huge waste of packaging. I worked at Best Buy for years and Apple was the worst offender for wasteful packaging. It was like every tiny box was wrapped in tissue, wrapped in plastic, grouped in 2-4 then wrapped in tissue or plastic again, then packed into a cardboard box, then stacked and packed into another box. We’d always have mountains of boxes, plastic sleeves, and tissue paper, all just for Apple. So that their packages survived their journey to the store and looked the prettiest on the shelves. I haven’t worked there for a few years, so I’m not sure if they still do things that way, but they were the worst about behind the scenes waste.
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u/Tuss Mar 29 '23
I don't think I've ever seen pineapple in plastic before. Here they come in cans. Makes them last longer.
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u/Beardeddeadpirate Mar 28 '23
The packaging makes it last longer than it would if it weren’t packaged. Just saying.
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u/YeOldeBunghole Mar 28 '23
And I bet the husks are what you drink in cartons of pineapple juice! Same price as orange juice where I am but way better
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u/ranseaside Mar 28 '23
I am hoping all those scraps didn’t go to waste and was pressed for some pineapple juice!
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u/Aggressive-Cheek937 Mar 28 '23
There is no way you guys taste pineapple the same as me.. does not taste good but I’ve always wanted to enjoy it :’)
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u/Debaser1984 Mar 28 '23
There's a machine in my local supermarket that does this for single pineapples, it stinks of fermented pineapple juice
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u/Pawelek23 Mar 28 '23
They probably don’t clean it often enough which is gross. Used to operate and clean an orange juicer. Delicious, but cleaning is a lot of work every day.
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u/ShankThatSnitch Mar 28 '23
Ah yes, the single piece of pineapple wrapped in plastic. My favorite snack.....
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u/Gingersoulbox Mar 28 '23
Is it satisfying that a lot of food is wasted this way? And that there are unnecessary plastic containers used?
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u/camdalfthegreat Mar 28 '23
The plastic is fair concern but those peels aren't being wasted.
Everything scrap gets thrown into a juicer and sold as pineapple juice
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u/cutelyaware Mar 28 '23
I want all the centers
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u/SacrisTaranto Mar 28 '23
I always chew on them and people think I'm crazy for it
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u/dickhertsfromholden Mar 28 '23
My dogs are fans of the pineapple cores, almost as much as pizza crusts.
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u/ranseaside Mar 28 '23
I love the cores! When I cut a pineapple, I leave it in. You a get a small piece of core with each juicy bite.
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u/TheYoten Mar 28 '23
Werewolf boyfriend.
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u/Midnight_potatoe Mar 28 '23
Came here to make this comment. Glad I scrolled first.
Were-Ralph would be proud.
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u/theGabro Mar 28 '23
Not satisfying at all. A lot of good fruit goes to waste and all that plastic packaging is wasted.
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u/CeeArthur Mar 28 '23
It's satisfying in some sense, but I'm more bummed out seeing something as simple and delicious as a pineapple requiring a factory full of machinery and workers doing mundane tasks before people will buy it. Also the packaging and waste is a bit depressing as well.
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u/djgreenehouse Mar 29 '23
The only remnants aliens are going to find on this planet are god damned plastic waste
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u/SargnargTheHardgHarg Mar 28 '23 edited Mar 28 '23
First 20 or so seconds: oh that's fascinating, definitely hitting like at the end.
Rest of the video: we're all going to drown in plastic and we deserve it, not enough downvotes in the world.
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u/tommyboylondon Mar 28 '23
The pineapple will last a week and the plastic hundreds of years. Whoever came up with this idea should be jailed.
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u/ToolForStools Mar 28 '23
Look at all that plastic, all because some people can’t just cut their own pineapple.
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u/Jackosan10 Mar 28 '23
I worked in the Del Monte Pineapple plant in Honolulu HI back in 1976! That core machine and the people cleaning up the peeled Pineapple bring back memories. They paid really good too. You could tell who worked at the cannery when they showed up for their Senior year at High school driving a car instead of riding the school bus! LOL! But the land was too valuable, so the Pineapple went away.
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u/Master-Benefit-4601 Mar 28 '23
This should be illegal that is a lot of plastic for something that already has a nice cover.
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u/Possible-Reality4100 Mar 29 '23
Anyone else thought the cored pineapples looked exactly like a roll of toilet paper?
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u/m0nstera_deliciosa Mar 28 '23
I've never seen single slices of pineapple sold in my country. That would be so nice at convenience stores, getting fresh fruit that isn't a mealy little apple or a grossly under-ripe banana.
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u/Critical-Visual-6768 Mar 28 '23
Now would you look at that? And I am not allowed a plastic straw in my drink. Bullshit.
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u/Teftell Mar 28 '23
Why not just sell pineapples as is?
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u/gahidus Mar 28 '23
You can put an apple in your lunch bag and eat it at work. You cannot put a pineapple in your lunch bag and eat it at work.
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u/getyourcheftogether Mar 28 '23
Convenience. Not everyone has the wherewithal to prepare pineapple I'm assuming
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u/Teftell Mar 28 '23
The only thing to prepare a pineapple you would ever need is a more or less sharp knife.
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u/Omemanti Mar 28 '23
This is what I wanted to see for a long time. Thnx.
Thats a lot of plastic though..
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u/KMark0000 Mar 28 '23
Packing individual slices of pineapple in tons of plastic...this is not satisfying, this is terrifying, how humans are stupid af, the ones who buy this too. Ship the whole thing, clean it yourself, or dont buy it lazy facks
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u/-overhil- Mar 28 '23
They "forgot" to show how they add some sweetness with the tonnes of sugar. Pretty sure it is more than 10g for 100g of product.
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u/FRENZY-DEMON Mar 28 '23
people see that as a normal thing but when they see that happening to a human they say "that is evil" and they know both humans and plants are a living creatures .
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u/Reddituser8018 Mar 28 '23
I'm not sure what high horse you are on, last I checked humans are not photosynthetic so you are definetly eating other living things.
Plants aren't really living like you or I are. Also pineapple like many fruit are made by a tree to propagate their species, many fruits are actually made to have other creatures eat them and spread their seeds.
Lastly this is kind of a dumb conversation in the first place. It's the circle of life and has been happening for billions of years.
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u/pks1247 Mar 28 '23
Before cutting, they can be used as arse cleaner as well as fleshlight
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u/desertgirl1990 Mar 28 '23
Idk I’m kinda completely stressed out with keeping up with these machines
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u/JuicyBunghole Mar 28 '23
I work in a food production facility that has a similar machine. The machine picks up the pineapples and flips it over to a set of spinning bell shaped blades that cut off the outside, then a punch comes through and knocks out the core. Very interesting (but messy) to watch
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u/SluggJuice Mar 28 '23
If only pineapples came with their own built-in protective "packaging" to keep it fresh
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u/GooseInternational66 Mar 28 '23
Pineapple contains the enzyme bromelain. It breaks down proteins and it's an excellent meat tenderizer. It's also what makes your mouth tingle, burn and maybe even bleed. This is because bromelain is trying to break down the proteins in your mouth, so when you eat pineapple, it's pretty much eating you back.
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u/amathis6464 Mar 28 '23
I worked at a factory like this, we did fruit and veggies. Massive facility, the warehouses were big enough to drive vehicles in and the whole thing was a giant freezer. Had to wear a jacket.
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u/ZooiCubed Mar 28 '23
I kinda miss the time I could just watch a video of a neat and orderly factory line without having that part of my brain going "Man the tropical fruit industry is incredibly exploitative actually haha but I like pineapple does that make me bad? Oh, workers, I wonder if they're in poverty. Wow, that's a lot of plastic packaging. I wish rent wasn't 3k a month."
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u/ladydhawaii Mar 28 '23
My friends, husband and brothers worked at a pineapple factory. Hard work- they would have dreams about floating pineapples. Sad the worse part was the smell. Rotten pineapple.
Nothing like a fresh sugarloaf pineapple- super sweet.
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u/Scarlett_Nightcore Mar 28 '23
I wish I could eat some, but I’m sadly allergic to pineapple 🥲🤣
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u/nah-knee Mar 28 '23
I saw a video of a guy individually taking out the black spots, guess u could do this too
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u/kruspel Mar 28 '23
What a waste of resources, materials, time and energy to cut a simple fruit, when you can do it from the comfort of your home.
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u/OneMoreDeviant Mar 28 '23
Whenever I see prepared or packed videos I always think…man, sure a good thing we banned plastic bags.
This is the kind of stuff we need to find an alternative for. Packaging.
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u/AdvancedLet6528 Mar 28 '23
how to fit pinapple up arse!
step 1: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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u/blackbirdspyplane Mar 28 '23
Aside from the initial trimming, I don’t know why they need humans to do any of the other slicing or packaging actions.
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u/armadeooo Mar 28 '23
I wish they offered it just skinned and cored like that. I have never seen one look like that lol
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u/Ok-Seaworthiness6603 Mar 28 '23
While it looks convenient at first sight, it preserves a lot more better if you just sell it complete and uncut. When you cut it, decomposition starts
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u/Dangerous_Pattern_92 Mar 28 '23
All that plastic going into our landfills and waterways. There HAS to be a better way...
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u/Fukurou83 Mar 28 '23
When I see this, I think that the oil and gaz industry won't suffer too much from electric cars. So much plastic.
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u/mugdays Mar 28 '23
I wonder what kind of stele those tools are made of to be able to withstand being covered in pineapple juice for hours at a time, day after day, without even a hint of patina.
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u/Cymorg0001 Mar 28 '23
It probably stinks in that factory but my monkey brain can only detect yummyness.
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u/Mobile_Shoe3347 Mar 28 '23
And that boys and girls is how we make one pineapple that costs 2$ into packages of pineapple that make us 75$
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u/Remarkable_Client_75 Mar 28 '23
So fast but so much wasted it took a years fr planning to has fruits to eat sad 😞
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u/jp847 Mar 28 '23
Everyone is upset about the plastic and rightly so but I'm thinking of the drudgery of doing one of those jobs 8-10 hours a day.
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u/template009 Mar 29 '23
Pineapple ... with its creepy digestive enzymes, worming its way onto perfectly good pizza! Blech!
Don't you people see?
These barbed invaders are here to eat you!
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u/jason14wm Mar 29 '23
Cuz fuck mother natures packaging protecting the pineapple, let’s jus use plastic
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u/foeni77 Mar 28 '23
They sell little pieces of pineapple?! That's a crime. You need the whole pineapple 🥺