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NB nature boy Member Timonium, Maryland Joined: Apr 02, 2008 Posts: 69	NB nature boy Posted posted on Tue, Mar 9, 2010 5:51 AM On 2010-03-08 01:18, bigbrotiki wrote: Maybe all this time we did not realize that those old Hawaiian Ku and Kane headdresses actually were abstract renderings of PINEAPPLES! :lol: Probably not since Pineapples are NOT native to Hawaii. "Captain James Cook later introduced the pineapple to Hawaii circa 1770. However, commercial cultivation did not begin until the 1880s when steamships made transporting the perishable fruit viable. In 1903, James Drummond Dole began canning pineapple, making it easily accessible worldwide. Production stepped up dramatically when a new machine automated the skinning and coring of the fruit. The Dole Hawaiian Pineapple Company was a booming business by 1921, making pineapple Hawaii's largest crop and industry."

On 2010-03-08 01:18, bigbrotiki wrote:

Maybe all this time we did not realize that those old Hawaiian Ku and Kane headdresses actually were abstract renderings of PINEAPPLES! :lol:

Probably not since Pineapples are NOT native to Hawaii.

"Captain James Cook later introduced the pineapple to Hawaii circa 1770. However, commercial cultivation did not begin until the 1880s when steamships made transporting the perishable fruit viable.

In 1903, James Drummond Dole began canning pineapple, making it easily accessible worldwide. Production stepped up dramatically when a new machine automated the skinning and coring of the fruit. The Dole Hawaiian Pineapple Company was a booming business by 1921, making pineapple Hawaii's largest crop and industry."

Post #516037 by nature boy on Tue, Mar 9, 2010 5:51 AM