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welcome to the cotkey ride home for tuesday, February 16th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.

The new Fruit taking over Instagram.

Why the winter storm sweeping the U.S. is causing an energy crisis, especially in Texas,

and a new-ish game that lets you take a virtual vacation with your friends. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

So there's a quick link posted on Kotke.org today that's kind of a case of history repeating itself

that, I mean, I guess I should have seen coming in a way, but is absolutely making my head spin.

So you know how in the 18th century rich people from imperialist nations would import, cultivate,

or literally rent pineapples to display in their

homes and at parties as status symbols. The pineapple was new to places like the United Kingdom,

so it had a certain mystique, but it was also super expensive to import and tough to cultivate

in Britain, making homegrown ones also rare and

expensive. So it became a coveted item, one people rarely ate, but rather just showed off as a

centerpiece or carrying around with them. Eventually, it wasn't as rare or expensive to import,

and the lower classes were able to afford it, so it was no longer a status symbol.

But not before its imagery had left its mark in paintings, furniture carvings, wallpaper, and the public consciousness.

Well, now, Del Monte is reviving this historical footnote by once again turning pineapples into an exclusive

luxury item and influencer marketing campaign. They have created pink pineapples, as in

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