Mar 31 2010White Strawberries That Taste Like Pineapple

Thats awesome

First!!!!!!

Patrick i now challenge you to see who can comment first on these seeing as we both love this website and check it daily.....

They look neat! I'm going to have to find some.
NOM NOM NOM!

crazy!!!! wtf!

The food of the RICH!

you are soooo weird. cherimoya??
-wes-

A pineapple is neither a pine ... nor an apple.

Not to mention dingleberries and cropdusters.

Happy April Fools to you too ^^

@123 - I will shit all over your firstarded game with this patrick fellow.

this better not be an april fools joke or im going to find GW and shove my guitar up his ass for fooling me... im getn my hands on these on way or another.

"(T)he reverse of the usual variety"??!?

The last time I checked, the seeds of a strawberry are yellowish, not white... but what do I know?

Oh, and Happy April Fools' Day!

i thought April fools day was on.... April....

@3 By Patrick, do you mean Kevin?

...you know, from The Office?

@12, I thought the seeds were supposed to be brownish, but what do I know? Wait, the fact that my calendar says it's march 31st is the april fool's joke huh? So today was really april! Crap!

@13, It is here :P

weird

Ugh...that pic is setting off my trypophobia...feeling nauseous.

Seeing is believing... well maybe not :P

sorry guys its an April fool :( gutting i know :(

These look quite interesting. I looked it up in several different places and if it is an April Fools joke, then so many people are doing the exact same one...

APRIL FOOLS BABY!

c'mon Geekologie, where is the judicious edit on this one?

you were probably busy playing with your star trek soap

If you look up pine berry, it's a type of weed. Purple Pine Berry

Marketing. www.pineberry.biz

Not April fools...

White strawberry>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimba77/2499692068/

Yellow strawberry>>> http://www.papagenos.com/picts/2007%20Images/Strawberry.WhiteAlpine.jpg

and cherimoya trees grow in our backyard... just sayin.

That looks delicious. O.O

I'd eat a pineapple that taste like a pineapple or strawberry that taste like a clitoris, not pineapple, coz it would be weird.

Animal Crossing reference in the last line!

You know, I remember this one time at work there was this guy who came in with a wound that had closed over but had festered. The area had swelled up about an inch & was filled with pus. That's what this looks like.

FAKE!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene in Never Back Down when Max told Baja that there were new fruit out on the market, but then she told him that it had all been a marketing gimmick for an internet advertising company called Pineberry in an attempt to gain tons and tons of marketing.

http://www.pineberry.biz/

Sorry guys, but this is a PR stunt.

There's an internet company named Pineberry. They specialize in SEO (Search Engine Optimization), website design and marketing.

If you check out the sites www.pineberry.biz and www.pineberry.info, they both link to the company's main site. One of them actually labels the fruit as an internet product.

Plus there's one of their employees on twitter talking about how it is fake. http://twitter.com/sokmotorkonsult/status/11375369204

The reason so many people are reporting on it is because someone in the company knew someone in the media. All it takes is 2-3 people reporting on a story to make the rest of the news people sit up and start salivating over a "scoop".

It's like pushing a boulder down a hill. All you need is a little push to get it started, then the ball will keep rolling under its own momentum.

I'm eager to see what potential backlash could come out of this. History has shown that pranks don't always turn out positively. For every one hoax that turned out well for the pranker, there's at least two that didn't.

April Fool dudes

Happy April Fools!

http://www.pineberry.biz/

They say the "main ingredients" for Pineberry jam (jelly) are:
SEO (An online marketing company)
Design
Development.

The online marketing company (SEO) made this "product" to show how good they are at their job.
All the major news sites are now reporting this in error.
Although they'll probably turn around and say "yer... we were in on the joke?"

Damnit, a few people already put what I put..

Yummy Yummy it looks so cute. It even looks better than the red ones..

Come who have tried this one before? Where I can find it? Does it taste good?

http://www.waitrose.presscentre.com/Press-Releases/Waitrose-exclusively-presents-Pineberries-set-to-be-cream-of-the-summer-crop-5ad.aspx

Damn nature, you scary.

Ummmmmmmmm
APRIL FOOLS!!!!!

I wish this was real.. I would so dip them in chocolate and place them on my genitalia for you to eat them... What? how did I get in your house? You left the backdoor unlocked.... hungry?

It´s not april fool.
I´m chilean, and we have white strawberries.
If you don´t know they, it´s because we don´t know very much too.

http://www.datoblog.cl/2008/12/13/frutillas-blancas-de-puren/

The white strawberries are CHILEAN!

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max failed to do Baja while she was drunk and she started cvalling him the White Fruiit.

The more I hear, the more I'm certain that this is a prank. Here's a list of the reasons why it looks like a prank:

1) The Pineberry websites
2) No information about these berries before 3/31
3) Waitrose has a history of pulling similar pranks (last year they did pinanas, a pineapple-banana hybrid prank) & they're the only store that is selling these
4) Nobody has actually seen this in stores or met anyone who has eaten them
5) No photos of the fruit beyond the stock footage
6) The only other article out there about the actual public response has several tongue in cheek comments such as "hey, half of the Waitrose office ate them & we're fine, so that's what counts, right?"

http://www.biofortified.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/pineberry.htm

While I've been told that there are albino strawberries, I do not think that pineberries- at least the type advertised for Waitrose- exist.

This is a small pineapple :) well I like the cherry as well as pineapple.

They aren't a rescued near-extinct berry - they're an altered fruit created by scientists that seem to be quite poisonous!

http://www.biofortified.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/pineberry.htm

While all the marketing media coming to the unlimited world of internet marketing. So, Why not Dental marketing? To be updated with latest technical marketing, It must be dental internet marketing.

i love ice cream, i d like to recommend our machines for ice cream. I also priced it very low in order to make it affordable to everyone.

Pine Strawberries really do exist. I sell one variety of them called 'White Carolina'. I'm actually sold out of them for this season. I call them an heirloom and that's exactly what they are. They originated when Virginia strawberries and Chilean strawberries were taken to Europe in the 1700's and "accidentally" crossed. Some of these were brought back to America and some of the many varieties are 'White Pine', 'White D', 'White Carolina' and others. I do have these and more varieties but have not yet released them.

They have an unbelievable aroma and a very sweet mild taste. They will not ship well. They are also pretty cool looking. Not an April fool joke.

How hardy are they? I'm looking for fruits that will grow in the Toronto /Canada Area, and with little success I might add! Kinda cold here for fruit save for blueberries I suppose.

Uncle B
I live in TYoronto as well but I'm curious as to how long you have lived here? To state that all that can grow here is bluberries is ridiculous. We have super warm summers and I think these would be able to grow fairly well here. It would depend on how long their growiing season is. Virginia can have cold winters so most fruit that grows there can be grown here, just a little later! Check out your local farmers markety to see all of the amazing things that grow in and around Toronto!!!!

Makes me thirsty.

Makes me thirsty.

must have!

totally real. and for all you people who are saying that it is a joke, do some research before assuming that your being tricked. they are only sold in the UK they are in season from march to april,

"...the flesh is almost totally white but studded with red seeds - the reverse of the usual variety...."

Has whatever moron wrote this ever SEEN a strawberry? Strawberries are red with black seeds, not white seeds.

"Discovered wild in South America and rescued from extinction by Dutch farmers..."

The Dutch farmers in South America were what drove species like this to the brink of extinction in the first place. Seriously, you're an idiot. If that's a quote from somewhere, you're an idiot just for posting it. Get the frick off the internet, moron.

the opposite of a strawberry's red color and black seeds would be blue with white seeds.

These aren't a joke, and there is a lot more information about these on Strawberry Plants.org. They have an article there that talks more about the history of them, the different types of pineberries, and even where you can buy them. For anyone interested, the article is here: Pineberry

There is a lot more information about these on http://strawberryplants.org . They have an article there that talks more about the history of them, the different types of pineberries, and even where you can buy them. For anyone interested, the article is here: http://strawberryplants.org/2010/09/pineberry-pineapple-strawberry/

i want to nom those so bad right now.

Haha come on. frutillas blancas, or white strawberrys are a common fruit here in Chile, as well as chirimoya not cherimoya... well its nice to see that foreigns considers them as unusual and exotic, over here it's like eating apples or pears for dessert