A $10,000 pineapple tart from 1736

Renting a pineapple to display in your home to convince people you're rich makes me realize that social media didn't really change people as much as we sometimes think.

TastingHistory is awesome. Highly recommend the channel.

People keep giving my wife upside down pineapples as gifts after we went on a cruise and saw them everywhere. Such a weird gift! 😉

That pronunciation has got be wrong.

So there was a moment in history in which English people knew pineapples are called ananas.

I love max! I've made a couple of his recipes. I enjoy the history lesson tied into the cooking.

Pineapple-mania was a real thing in the UK in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Sir Christopher Wren wanted to put a 23m tall golden pineapple on top of the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral in London:

https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/viewer/?iiif-content=https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/canvas/49606d6e-ff20-4364-b304-c81de60450f4.json#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=52&r=0&xywh=-1076%2C-456%2C7564%2C9102

Fortunately he was talked down from that. But not completely - the two small towers on the cathedral are each topped with a gold pineapple.

Come for the history, stay because you get lost in Max’s deep blue eyes.

I wonder, what's todays equivalent of something that's ludicrously expensive now, that will be accessable to the masses in years to come?

and pineapple didnt even taste the same as they do now