Pineapples

Pineapples on the radio today
Blumenthal has gone up in my estimation since listening to this:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03ct4n6

i was listening to that as i fell asleep last night
the first few plants brought to the uk back in the 1800's were put in hot houses and has so much care and attention paid to them they estimated the cost per pineapple was $5,000 per each