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Adventure Series – Pineapple and milk doesn't cause reactions

October 27, 2006 – Ming says: As everyone probably knows, having pineapple and milk within about 6 hours causes reactions, stomach ache and vomiting. But Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Jack don't seem to face this problem at all. For example, Valley of Adventure says "Then they opened a tin of PINEAPPLE CHUNKS and a tin of MILK" And they didn't become ill. This blooper applies for almost all the series.
	Inspector Jenks says: Eh? I don't think "everyone" knows anything of the sort. I've never heard of this, Ming! And if it's true, you're probably talking about a relatively select handful of people. I think your topic title is spot on.
October 28, 2006 – Hari Menon says: Some recent studies claim that 25 percent of Caucasians and 90 percent of Asians are lactose intolerant, so Ming may have something there. I must be the exception that proves the rule, because I've finished an entire tin of condensed milk on a number of occasions, with no noticeable ill-effects. But let's leave the poor pineapples out of it, shall we?
	Inspector Jenks says: Crikey! Thanks, Hari. Learn something new every day. And sorry, Ming, for doubting you!!
October 29, 2006 – Ming says: No problem Keith. I don't wonder you were surprised, I was amazed myself when I heard of it about 7 years ago! :-)
January 12, 2007 – Jeni says: Ming, I was thinking about this and I have something to add based upon my re-reading of the boarding school books (Malory Towers & St Clare's). These books were written in the 1940's or probably before, when England was just recovering from WWII. My guess is that food wasn't as plentiful and varied as it is now, some 60 years later. I mean, the girls in St Clare's are having a midnight feast, and they're excited about pineapple chunks and prawns! In the Malory Towers series, again there are midnight feasts, and the excitement is about boiled eggs and tomatoes of all things! Now if those girls had had a chance to reach into the future and grab the kind of goodies we have available to us today to eat, my then!! what a feast that would have been! Also Ming, when people are 'stranded' in faraway places where food isn't easily accessible, they'll tend to eat anything and everything that is available, no matter what it is! And pineapple and milk definitely fit into the 'edible' category, believe it! And once those are gone, people will reach for all kinds of things to eat, be it roots, nuts, even grass, just to survive. Just some more 'food' for thought for you, Ming!
January 25, 2007 – Nigel Crompton says: Since we were kids would often opened a tin of Pineapple chunks and pour milk over them. We grew up in Southport, in Lancashire. It's very normal in the north of England to do that. Nobody I know, who did that, got sick. I have heard that East Asians are rather lactose intolerant. Perhaps that's why Ming thinks it strange.
January 27, 2007 – Jeni says: Hey Ming, don't ya love this, what you started with the 'pineapples and milk' topic! Haha! I've got something else to add. Sometimes people eat stuff out of sheer desperation without thinking about what they're putting into their mouths! I know I've done that many times and then I'll think back and say to myself: "Wow! that should have made me quite sick, but it didn't!" sometimes I have a cast iron stomach, other times my stomach is so sensitive it's all I can do to not pass out after eating something totally ordinary. And usually, people who are really hungry, tend to pop anything they can find into their mouths. That's why people are not advised to go food shopping on an empty stomach, they tend to buy things they would not normally buy - like too much candy and junk food. By the way, one of my favorite things to eat is sweetened condensed milk and if I'm not 'caught', I tend to eat it with just about anything else - it's so good!
February 16, 2007 – Ilsa Cheeseman says: Just to add to the milk & fruit debate - We often had fruit with evaporated milk in the '40s & '50s and this is what I always thought was used when reading about it in EB stories. It's a bit sweeter and slightly thicker than ordinary milk and much thinner than condensed milk which wasn't very pourable. It was a good and cheap substitute for cream or ice cream. I still use it occasionally to whip into jelly just as it is setting to make a home made moose!
February 28, 2007 – Phillip says: I have to agree with Nigel on this one; I grew up in Stockport near Manchester (also in the North of England for those who don't know) and regularly ate pineapple chunks and milk. Often condensed milk if I remember correctly but I couldn't be sure. I also know this was not something that was confined just to the North but some friends of mine who grew up in Portsmouth that I met in later life had the same love for this dish that I had. Never in my life have I heard of violent stomach ache and vomiting caused by eating this. It seems Ming like your source of information needs some review.
	Inspector Jenks says: Although in Ming's defence, read Hari's post (second in this topic).
March 2, 2007 – julian - really says: I've been eating both fresh and tinned pineapple with evaporated milk for years - no reaction other than to want more!!
November 29, 2007 – Fiona says: I have to say I've eaten mixed fruit salads containing pineapple, with various types of milk/cream and never felt ill. In fact, I'd never heard of possible reactions from eating them together until this thread.
October 17, 2008 – Alicia says: Oh for Heaven's sake Ming, they were stranded on an island. They couldn't expect caviar and french chocolate to be served to them on a silver platter. Anyway, to both Phillip and Nigel, I come from Whiteheaven, Cumbria [N. W. England, but I'm currently in N. England] and I've eaten pineapple chunks in cream/milk lots of times and never felt anything.
October 17, 2008 – Nigel Rowe says: I must say, pineapple chunks and tinned milk were a great favourite pudding of mine as a child. In fact, tinned milk was poured on all sorts of fruit. Not being able to afford cream (except at Christmas), tinned milk was an inexpensive option. I have never heard of it upsetting people; maybe my friend Ming knows more lactose-intolerant people than I do! Like the good Inspector, your topic title IS spot on, is this a blooper?? ; -).
October 17, 2008 – Alicia says: I meant Whitehaven not Whiteheaven in my last post. Nigel, pineapple in milk is lovely isn't it?
October 17, 2008 – Jeni says: Lactose intolerant people come in all colors, cultures and in all countries. If Ming herself was in that story, she'd have to opt out on having the pineapples and milk!
	Fatty says: What a story though, if Ming was the star!
October 17, 2008 – Nigel Rowe says: Alicia, if ever you venture south to Salisbury, we will share a bowl together!
	Fatty says: Listen you two, this is Talk About Blyton!!! ;-)
October 17, 2008 – Nigel Rowe says: Sorry Fatty! Very well then, Alicia, if ever you venture south to Salisbury, we will share a bowl together, just like the Mannerings and Trents did!
	Fatty says: Hmm. I'm watching you two.
October 17, 2008 – Jeni says: I know we're not supposed to post stuff like "I agree" and such, but I have to make an exception here! Fatty, Ming would make a great (oops, I almost used caps!) Blyton character! She seems almost tailor made to be one of Blyton's characters! It's almost like Ming herself stepped out of one of Blyton's pages into the 21st century!
October 17, 2008 – Alicia says: Sure we will Nigel - just wander up to Whitehaven sometime, I'll be more than happy to share pineapple in milk with anyone apart from my brothers. Sorry, Fatty - we'll get back to talking about Byton now.
October 17, 2008 – Jeni says: Wait a minute here, I'm tired of all this favoritism going on behind my back :) what about my invitation, Nigel, to Salisbury and do I get to share in that bowl too? (btw, what's in the bowl)? Tell me so we can really make Fatty jealous now!
	Fatty says: I took it to be pineapple and tinned milk!
October 17, 2008 – Alicia says: No favouritism going on Jeni, share the bowl with us. It's pineapple chunks in milk. Enjoy! Right, we really need to get back to talking about Blyton now.
August 16, 2009 – April June says: I don't mind pineapple and milk together -- it's delicious, and I don't feel sick at all after eating it. Here in the orphanage -- well, I'm not in the orphanage right now -- since occasionally I go to my friend's house a couple miles away, and I use the computer there, since she always lets me -- but at the orphanage where I live in, we're sometimes served pineapples and cups of milk together. And as far as I know, neither I nor most of the children in the orphanage feel sick after eating pineapples and milk; only a few occasionally had stomach aches after eating those delicious treats. I hope I get to keep eating pineapples and milk for the rest of my life; they are too tasty to part with. I'm glad they serve pineapples and milk at the orphanage! I do feel sorry for those who feel sick after eating such a yummy treat.
	Bets says: Lucky folks! I feel sorry for those poor lactose intolerant people. :-)
August 18, 2009 – Alicia says: April June, I completely agree with you. You live in an orphanage? I'm so sorry. But pineapple in milk is a delicious treat, no brainer. I feel sorry for all the lactose intolerant people out there who're missing out on something so tasty.
	Fatty says: I guess lots of us have to miss out on something. I'm not allowed to eat dry roasted peanuts, and I love them!
August 18, 2009 – Alicia says: Poor you Fatty : (. But I hate dry roasted peanuts - I hate most fried things anyway. My brother can't eat sugary things because he's diabetic.
August 20, 2009 – Enidfan says: Erm. I doubt this milk and pineapple reactions thingie is true. I love pineapple on pizza, which means pineapple and a milk-based product called mozzarella cheese are in constant contact and have to be eaten together (I especially like it with the pineapple smothered in the cheese). I have been eating it for years now, and so far nothing has happened to me. You should try it sometime. It's super.
August 20, 2009 – Alicia says: Enidfan, I think it causes reactions in only lactose-intolerant people. You are most likely not lactose-intolerant, so pineapples and milk together probably doesn't affect you.
August 21, 2009 – Enidfan says: If it is lactose intolerance alone, pineapples don't come into the equation. People who are lactose intolerant can't digest milk or any milk product regardless of what it is combined with. I know people who are lactose intolerant and they don't consume milk in any form. So it could be strawberries and milk or cocoa and milk, they will be terribly sick anyway. It has nothing to do with pineapples and milk per se.
	Fatty says: Good point, Enidfan!
February 9, 2010 – Amy Elizabeth says: I come to the Adventure series page to post a response to a topic -- and this is the topic with the longest string of messages! Ooh, you all make pineapples and milk seem so delicious -- I've never tried them before. Sorry you live in an orphanage, April June. And Alicia -- is pineapples and milk really that tasty?
July 20, 2015 – Tess says: I've never ever had pineapple with milk ever. It sounds a bit weird really. I'll ask my mom to make it and see if it's as nice as you people are saying.
July 20, 2015 – jess says: Pineapple and milk, sounds yummeeey!
	Buster says: Not eaten together it doesn't!
July 20, 2015 – jess says: I thought dogs eat almost anything, especially you Buster!
	Buster says: I'm a sensible eater!
September 27, 2015 – Tom.C.G says: So how come you chase Goon's ankles but never bite, Buster?
	Buster says: I just do it for fun, and wouldn't hurt anyone.

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