Peel and Eat Pineapple Videos

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About

Peel and Eat Pineapple Videos refers to a series of viral videos of people demonstrating a technique for serving pineapple fruit. In these videos, rather than cut the fruit with a knife, people pull at the exterior of the pineapple to reveal a bite-sized serving.

Origin

While the videos did not create the technique, the earliest known iteration of the viral videos was posted on February 8th, 2019 by TikTok ^[1] user @dillonroberts22. The post received more than 6,100 hearts in one month (shown below).

Spread

On March 4th, Twitter ^[2] user @lewismccluskey shared the video (shown below). Their post received more than 44,000 retweets, 140,000 likes and 13 million views in less than two weeks (shown below).

Several days later, on March 8th, Twitter^[3] user @DenzBenzi posted a different peel and eat video from TikTok.^[8] They captioned the video, "Wait, what? The whole time? The whole time!? THE WHOLE TIME!" Within three days, the video received more than 160,000 retweets, 390,000 likes and 18 million views (shown below).

While some reacted positively to the video, others noted how difficult they found the process to be (examples below).

On March 10th, Game of Thrones star Lena Headey posted the second peel and eat pineapple video on Instagram. ^[7] The post received more than 130,000 likes and 925,000 views in 24 hours.

Several media outlets reported on the videos, including Fox News, ^[4] Insider,^[5] Delish,^[6] and more.