Monday, December 14, 2009

Pineapple: The Wow Factor

By now, the world knows that we are going to photograph every pineapple that we buy, before we eat it. We have created an album on Facebook for this purpose, and have already put one photo up.

There are as many reasons to photograph a pineapple as there are knobs on a pineapple, but I intend to list only a few.

Firstly, as it is extremely difficult to tell whether a pineapple is any good simply by looking at it, sniffing it, or pulling out one of the spiky leaves at the top, it will be very useful to have a record of what the best ones looked like, for future reference.

Secondly, it will provide us with a means of comparing the various sizes of the pineapples that we buy, which we know are always different, even when the price is exactly the same.

Thirdly, others may wish to comment on the magnificence of our pineapple. I note that someone has already commented on our first one, with the following comment : wow.

While this is most encouraging I cannot help being troubled by the lack of an exclamation mark at the end of the comment. It suggests a certain degree of underwhelmedness on the part of the commenter.

However, perhaps at this early stage of the project it is understandable.

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