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[QLD] Free Pineapples @ Queens Garden, Brisbane

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Take home a free pineapple from Queens Gardens in the Brisbane City from 9pm tonight.


A mini pineapple plantation has popped up in Queens Gardens in the CBD overnight in a sight that turns back time.

The site was the state’s first-ever pineapple plot in 1844 and has been returned to its historic roots for the official launch of the Year of Horticulture.

Horticulture Queensland is highlighting pineapples as the first commodity in a year-long awareness campaign of the state’s 104 produce crops.

Queensland Fruit and Vegetable Growers boss Rachel Chambers told Laurel & Mark the event was well-timed to coincide with a pineapple glut.

The pineapples will be at Queens Gardens until 9pm tonight, when they’ll be free to go to a good home.

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  • +14

    Free pineapples. It doesn't get any more 'Queensland' than that
    Take it with you to the local banana bending club?

    • I really wish they picked a better name for the old Pub; but some folks like it I guess.

  • Until 9pm

    • +4

      displayed until 9pm if I'm reading correctly.. then free to good home after 9pm

      • +1

        Yeah you're right. I have no idea why they made it that late. Surely would have been smarter to make it 5pm when people could pick one up when they left work.

        • so that most ppl don’t bother to go? Otherwise it could be a mess.

        • They were for an event that had a cocktail party starting in the evening so they didn't want them gone before people arrived.

  • -5

    This looks like a bit of a marketing "fail" to me. How many people will be in the city at 9pm, and keen to take home one of those pineapple plants? I'd hazard a guess and say - zero.

    Having said that - there is a pineapple glut happening. I suspect that there will be a van full of boxes of nice, ready to eat pineapples, available for the public.

    • +4

      A lot of people will still be there because it's Friday night shopping in the city.

    • +1

      Looks like they celebrate BrisAsia this evening and this could be a good take home gift for the participants I guess

    • +5

      Those stumbling out of the pubs for afterwork friday drinks.

      What could go wrong…

      • Fresh pina colada to keep the night going?

        • +1

          Peni$ colliders lol

  • +6

    someone will be getting the rough end tonight

    • +2

      the event was well-timed to coincide with a pineapple glut

      I think pineapple glut(e) is the medical term for this condition

  • +1

    Reads to me that they are pineapple plants and they sell at bunnings at a premium (if i remember correctly, $40 each). It may improve the taste of friday night dates 😅

    • +1

      $40 at bunnings? you must be joking surely..? lol

      • +1

        Most definitely sir. They had little pineapples growing on them and they were wrapped in plastic

        • I seen them there to at that price. Blown away. Even more so when people thought they grew underground!!!! FFS

        • That's usually a dead giveaway

    • +2

      You can cut the top off a pineapple and plant it in a pot and it will grow into a pineapple plant

      • +1

        This is the most ozbargain comment ever - it takes two years to grow a pine but it saves $2.50.

        • +1

          You in a hurry or something?

  • +8

    They are already giving them away for free now. Source: 4 pineapples in my car.

  • Sweet, I will grab two for the coming week.

    • -3

      Bitter, at least they were free

  • Can somebody pick me up a dozen?

    • But you're in WA.
      I would grab one… but I've got pneumonia and covid.

      • VIC now. Just a short drive for delivery.

  • +1

    apparently there’s a big glut of pineapples this season - pina coladas for brekky

    • Harvested 3 from our backyard this season. And we only had 5 plants…

  • +1

    Haha I drove past this multiple times while working today, had no idea what was happening, all I knew was that there was a heap of pineapple plants

  • +2

    Should have grown some potatoes.

  • plants or edible fruits?

    • Edible fruit still attached to the bromeliad

  • +2

    Well that's good for pizzas!

    Grabs popcorn

    • You best be wearing them flame retardant suit or them pesky Italians will be roasting you for that.

  • Still some left?

  • I just read in the paper there will be a pineapple 🍍 shortage next year. Maybe someone let them know

    https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/food-warnings/pineapp…

  • +2

    @Everyone, it is BEFORE 9PM, not AFTER!

    Go there now if you want some pineapples! About 80% are gone already as of 7:45pm, so grab one while you can, don't wait till after 9PM!

    • All gone

      There’s just a bunch leftover plants if you want to plant your own?

      • Three years later..

  • Yea it's before, just picked one up, plenty left. Some have the fruit, but most of them are just plants in a pot.

  • +1

    I have a pen

    • If this isn’t the most upvoted comment then we have a Dad shortage on OzB

  • +2

    My safe word is pineapple

  • +1

    Hawaiian Pizza Domino's Deal incoming soon.

  • +1

    Free fruit very rare in Syd, only junk food are free.

  • Just picked my first pineapple of the season yesterday. How topical and appropriate.

    • Just picked my first pineapple of the season yesterday. How tropical and appropriate.

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