Hawaii Five-0 2010: Respect the Land and the Pizza Without Pineapples?

Summary: Do non-native fruits like pineapples belong in Hawaii and on pizza in the Hawaii Five-0 2010 first season's third episode Oct. 4, 2010?

pizza with pineapple; Boston's North End Pizza Bakery, Oahu; Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, 12:07: Janine (nina.jsc) from Mililani, Hawaii, United States, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

Non-native pineapples act as agro-industrial appropriators of native cropland and, in the Hawaii Five-0 2010 active police procedural series episode Respect the Land Oct. 4, 2010, as cultural appropriators of pizza ingredients.

Director Paul A. Edwards and writers Carol Barbee, Kyle Harimoto, Alex Kurtzman, Peter M. Lenkov and Roberto Orci broach the 'ōlelo a'o ("advice") Malama ka 'aina. They continue Detective Danny Williams (Scott Caan) as one of four critical characters from the 1968-1980 series created by Leonard Freeman (Oct. 31, 1920-Jan. 20, 1974). Their first season's third episode divulges Danny's Italian descent with, "Pizza is mozz[arella], sauce and dough. If you wanna put pepperoni on your slice, that's fine."

Danny then establishes that, "But ham out, fruit out, okay? I don't care where we are. Pizza and pineapple do not belong in the same airspace."

The Bromeliaceae family member, from Olof Bromelius (May 2, 1639-Feb. 5, 1707), flourishes among native flora of Brazilian and Paraguayan frontiers and as naturalized Hawaiian flora.

Pineapples grow by collars, crowns, seeds, shoots, slips and suckers since Spanish-speaking conquerors gathered pineapples from Guadeloupe in 1493 into Hawaii and the Philippines before 1550. Del Monte, Dole Food Company and Maui Pineapple Company harvested plantation pineapples from fruiting cylindrical stems; removed, replanted basal suckers; removed or retained trunk side shoots. Bats, bees, beetles and hummingbirds natively initiate six-month fruiting seasons for pineapple trees, identified scientifically in 1917 by Elmer Drew Merrill (Oct. 15, 1876-Feb. 25, 1956).

Pineapple agro-industrialists juggle brown-coated, curve-sided, flat-sided, wildlife-pollinated, 0.12- to 0.19-inch- (3- to 5-millimeter-) long, 0.039- to 0.079-inch- (1- to 2-millimeter-) wide seeds into plantation breeding programs.

Pineapple plants, known scientifically as Ananas comosus (from the Old Tupi nanas, "excellent fruit" and Latin comōsus, "tufted [fruit stem]"), keep hand-pollinated, not wildlife-pollinated, plantation schedules.

Club-shaped 9.84- to 19.68-inch (25- to 50-centimeter) stems link 0.79- to 1.97-inch- (2- to 5-centimeter-) wide bases and 1.96- to 3.15-inch- (5- to 8-centimeter-) wide tops. They manage 5.07-pound (2.3-kilogram) yellow-fleshed, yellow-peeled fruits from the merged bracts, cortexes, ovaries and sepals of 5.91-inch- (15-centimeter-) long spike-like inflorescences maintained in violet-tipped, white-based trios. They net 70-plus hairy, 0.98- to 3.28-foot- (30- to 100-centimeter-) long spiral-nestled leaves and 3.28- to 6.56-foot- (1- to 2-meter-) wide, 2.79-foot- (0.85-meter-) deep adventitious roots.

Pineapple foliage, whose stomata (pores) obtain atmospheric carbon dioxide nightly for daily photosynthesis, and pineapple fruits offer bromelain and calcium oxalate-occasioned abraded buccal (mouth) protein tissue.

Soil pHs of 4.5 to 6.5 friable (crumbly) to 23.62-plus-inch (60-plus-centimeter) depths for three-plus-year lifespans produce 3.28- to 6.56-foot (1- to 2-meter) tall and wide pineapples.

Temperatures between 68 and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (20 and 30 degrees Celsius) at 1,200- to 3,500-foot (365.76- to 1,066.8-meter) altitudes above sea level qualify as pineapple-friendly. They require cool nights at 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius), day-long sun, relative humidity at 85 to 95 percent and 23.62-inch (60-millimeter), well-distributed rainfall minimums. Ants, mealybugs, mites, scales, symphelids and thrips; bacterial and pink diseases; black, butt, fruitlet core, heart and root rots; nematodes; yellow spot viruses stress plantation pineapples.

Danny undoubtedly thinks of native 'akala (raspberry), hala (tourist pineapple), 'ohelo (huckleberry) and 'ohi'a tai (mountain apple) as treacherous as non-native pineapples to truly Italian pizzas.

(left to right) Scott Caan, CBS TV executive Nina Tassler (center) and Alex O'Loughlin (right) at CBS UpFront, Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, New York; May 19, 2010: Hawaii Five-0 @Hawaii Five0CBS, via Facebook May 20, 2010

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

pizza with pineapple; Boston's North End Pizza Bakery, Oahu; Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, 12:07: Janine (nina.jsc) from Mililani, Hawaii, United States, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pizza_with_pineapple.jpg

(left to right) Scott Caan, CBS TV executive Nina Tassler (center) and Alex O'Loughlin (right) at CBS UpFront, Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, New York; May 19, 2010: Hawaii Five-0 @Hawaii Five0CBS, via Facebook May 20, 2010, @ https://www.facebook.com/HawaiiFive0CBS/photos/a.120859121280906/120859294614222/

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