It doesn't look like an apple. It doesn't taste like an apple. It doesn't grow on a pine tree, and it is in a different food group?
2006-09-12 04:52:33 · 13 answers · asked by Nickname 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
A pineapple has a segmented exterior , which looks much like a pine cone and a firm interior pulp like an apple. "Apple" was once a more generic term for various fruits, as well.
2006-09-12 04:58:32 · answer #1 · answered by MOM KNOWS EVERYTHING 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the shape of pineapple looks like a big pine cone and it's a fruit like an apple.
2006-09-12 12:27:10 · answer #2 · answered by Chiha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the fruit pineapple looks like a pine!
2006-09-12 12:10:08 · answer #3 · answered by Kliment N 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The name pineapple comes from the similarity of the fruit to a pine cone. I believe that it is shaped like a big a*** pine cone and its sweet and tarty like an apple. There you have it.
2006-09-12 11:59:30 · answer #4 · answered by Playboy AKA Jovan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The name pineapple comes from the similarity of the fruit to a pine cone.
2006-09-12 11:55:42 · answer #5 · answered by Ai 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It looks like a pine cone and the interior has the soft pulp like that of an apple.
2014-03-18 08:36:55 · answer #6 · answered by Toenails 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the 17th century the English gave it the name "pineapple," an old word for pine cone, because of its appearance.
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Etymology
The native tribes of Central America called this spiky fruit "nana," meaning flavour. In fact, it was so succulent that another syllable was added and it became "the nana of nanas": the flavour of flavours. Ananas became the accepted name in French and numerous other languages. In the 17th century the English gave it the name "pineapple," an old word for pine cone, because of its appearance.
2006-09-12 12:07:33 · answer #7 · answered by kent chatham 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pine cones were originally called pineapples because they grew on pine trees...when the pine apple was discovered, they thought it looked similar to a pine cone (pineapple) and thus named it a pineapple
2006-09-12 11:59:11 · answer #8 · answered by Jessi 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When the colonists first arrive, they were 'pining' for apples but there were only pineapples in the tropics.
2006-09-12 11:59:26 · answer #9 · answered by SHIH TZU SAYS 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It probably is something lost in the translation. They are called pinas with a curvy line over the n. That's my take on the whole thing.
2006-09-12 11:59:34 · answer #10 · answered by carmen d 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋