Queensland Researchers develop coconut-flavoured pineapple :O

[Mike T]

It must have been a scam and you just can't trust Queenslanders. The coconut flavoured pineapple has not been released and has not appeared in the news or media since.

[gunnar429]

I'm waiting for a pineapple flavored coconut!

Agreed.  I like both pineapple and coconuts, but coconuts are much blander in taste than pineapples.  Therefore, a coconut that was potent like a pineapple would be great!  A blander pineapple is not needed by my taste buds.  I would still try it if i had the chance, though.

[Mark in Texas]

HAHAHA. I agree. Same scientists are having a hard time getting a tomato that tastes like a tomato,

Then you haven't grown/tasted a BHN 589 (bred for flavor) or BHN602 (aka Rodeo, a Texas Superstar), Big Beef (AAS winner), Juliet, etc.    The rich, sweet, somewhat acid taste will beat any heirloom tomato hands down.  Bonus is they're easy to grow, super productive and the skin melts in your mouth.  I just picked a couple of Sioux heirlooms (having know better I shouldn't have planted them in the first place) and they have NO flavor plus a sharp nasty bite....not sweet although vine ripened blood red.  Typical of heirlooms/heritage which are plagued with problems like catfacing, blossom end rot, cracking,  no disease package, etc. Thank gawd for folks like Monsanto and other scientists working for firms like BHN who are making the world a better place for ag and personal gardening.  http://www.siegers.com/shop/kind.asp?kind_id=BBB

Heirloom on the left, Dutch hybrid greenhouse maters on the right.

[Zeeth]

Bump.