I know that pineapple was brought in from Spain but would like more info on the history of how this industry began and ended.
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This site should help you:\n\nhttp://oahu.aloha-hawaii.com/tours/dole+plantation\n\nHere's some info from that site:\n"It’s believed that the pineapple originated in the lowlands of Paraguay. Historians believe the fruit was introduced to Hawaii in 1527, after a Spanish shipwreck near the coast of South Kona on the Big Island brought a number of goods to the Islands. In later years, a Spanish adventurer named Francisco de Paula Marin experimented with raising pineapples in Hawaii in the early 1800s. James Dole would later pioneer the pineapple industry, earning acclaim as Hawaii’s "Pineapple King.""
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It was a give- give situation. everybody produced or you consumed them.  during drought to  lol do your own home work.
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A couple of great sites for researching this are \nhttp://www.mercola.com   and  http://www.knowthecause.com
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try www.moonfruit.com
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The SS used it first. Then it was picked up and started in Texas here in the early 80's because they could get the ingredients off the shelf at any hardware and or drug store. They were using Ether base to cut phenol acetone. It's poison.
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could be because fruits are picked while green and shipped\ninstead of waiting for nature...have heard some process is  used to speed up ripening, but, have seen same condition in mangoes and bananas..........
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Scholarly potheads know the derivation of pot is from the Mexican Spanish potiguaya, which are marijuana leaves after their pods have been removed.
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cotton, tobacco, opium, just to name a few. But do some of your own research! :-)
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My link of the day on my blog. All about plants and herbs. \n\nhttp://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/med-aro/
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Sap, I know what you are asking about. It was one of our family jokes. Isn't it?\n\nIt is "pineapple".\n\nSee u soon,\nSen
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If you're asking when the word "gay" came to be associated with homosexuals, particularly males, it emerged from Britain in the late 19th century as a sort of "codeword" for being able to identify each other.\n\nThose were in the days when we didn't have a strong identity in the culture and wouldn't say that "fruit" is a bigoted word to use in connection with homosexual people.
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From the Spanish word "potigauya" which means marijuana leaves.  The term "pot" has been in use in the US at least as far back as the 1930's. \n \nAn interesting sidebar here -- the Marijuana Tax Stamp Acts created in the 30's were part of the federal government's attempts to create marijuana laws to use against Mexican immigrants as well as against African-Americans.   \n\nIn that period, there were significant numbers of Mexican and other Hispanics living in the US, and much like today, there was a great public outcry against them.\n\nOur (US) history is filled with immigrations and cultural backlashes against the immigrants.  My own family began its history in the US as part of the mid-19th century Irish immigration.  The prejudices against the Irish were exactly the same as today's prejudices against Hispanic immigrants.
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There are many different brands of canned fruit in the U.S., I think the most popular is probably Del Monte.\nI'm sure they have a website that you could go to for information on ordering their products.
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The Official website of the Provincial Government of Rizal has a list of industries in that province\n\nhttp://www.rizalprovince.gov.ph/trade.html
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May have been picked and let ripen in sun like we do tomatoes lol. It could make it harder that when it ripens in sun own its own lol.
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Couldn't find biologist but I found a few scienitst\n\nPedro Escuro\nhttp://inventors.about.com/od/filipinoscientists/a/Pedro_Escuro.htm\n\nGregorio Zara\nhttp://inventors.about.com/od/filipinoscientists/a/Gregorio_Zara.htm\n\nJose Rodriguez\nhttp://inventors.about.com/od/filipinoscientists/a/Jose_Rodriguez.htm
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It started in Japan. It refered to when people sold their own things (like their kimono, hair ornaments, and art) to make money during the depression of WWII. Not heavy illegal like the black market,