University of Wollongong Research Online Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities 2006 To the smell of pineapples: writing a Queensland auto-bio-graphie Francesca T. Rendle-Short University of Wollongong Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/lhapapers Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, and the Law Commons Recommended Citation Rendle-Short, Francesca T., "To the smell of pineapples: writing a Queensland auto-bio-graphie" (2006). Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers. 1445. https://ro.uow.edu.au/lhapapers/1445 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library:
[email protected] To the smell of pineapples: writing a Queensland auto-bio-graphie Abstract I grew up eating pineapples in everything; well, nearly everything (let's not exaggerate). They were a sweetener, made things juicy. Pineapple jam, pineapple breadcrumbs stuffed in the chicken roast for Sunday lunch after church, pineapple on the barbeque for the Christian folk my parents (MotherJoy and Onward) invited home, crushed pineapple in the punch, pineapple in the boiled fruitcake, pineapple in sandwiches as a treat through the summer holidays, pineapple in the curried rice salad for days my mother felt adventurous. We ate from pineapples too. Imagine then refined white sugar being spooned out of a fancy pineapple canister with its spiky pineapple top of a lid. Milk pouring out of a matching pineapple jug, part of a set. Salad out of large wooden bowls in the shape of half pineapples.