Poet Charles Lamb described the pineapple as "too ravishing for moral taste .
Beloved by George Washington, a favorite of kings and aristocrats, the pineapple quickly achieved an elite status among fruits that it retain. like lovers\' kisses she bites--she is a pleasure bordering on pain, from fierceness and insanity of her relish." From the moment Christopher Columbus discovered it on a Caribbean island in 1493, the pineapple has seduced the world, becoming an object of passion and desire. . .
Poet Charles Lamb described the pineapple as "too ravishing for moral taste