You know how something niggles at the back of your mind, but doesn’t ever become clear enough to see what it is that is causing that unease?
A few weeks back I had a feeling that we hadn’t quite finished off the diced beautiful fresh pineapple I’d meant to use on a pizza or something. Perhaps we changed our minds about making pizza and thus never really addressed the pineapple bits. Anyway, under plastic wrap, in time they moved to the back of their refrigerator shelf, became surrounded by things that obscured the view, and remained undisturbed for several weeks, until Mike cleaned out the ‘frig. He’s very good at that job, and so I generally leave the schedule for it up to him, as I wouldn’t want to give him the feeling I was interfering in one of his star roles.
It took us a while to realise, or should I say remember, that these several colonies of mould had developed on what was once diced fresh pineapple. I didn’t post this photo immediately on FB, because my first action was to remove this biohazard from the house. When I did get round to posting it, my dear friend Pam suggested it might have contained a cure for Covid-19, and I felt terrible that I had failed to offer this opportunity to science and the world. I’m just documenting it now so that if it ever becomes the case that mouldy pineapple contains the answer the world is waiting for, my dear friend Pam N. should share in the inevitable Nobel Prize as having been the first to come up with this potential medical research possibity.
This stage of the research can be easily duplicated by people at home, and would be interesting to see if the same main moulds appear in other people’s trials, too! Contact me if you want to share your results!