Origin of the pineapple

I was eating a pineapple earlier this week and I realized what a strange fruit it was. I wondered what gave it such a unique flavor and why it is called a pineapple if it does not taste like pine or apple. So I looked it up.
I first discovered that a pineapple is actually a mass of berries fused together. And that is why those giant leaves are on the top.
As for the name, it dates back to the 1600's. Christopher Columbus had brought the pineapple back from Guadeloupe, in the Carribean Sea, to Spain. The Spanish people had never seen anything like it, but thought it resembled a pine cone. They accordingly named it "Pine of the Indies." But when the English took a look at it, they thought it was tasty like an apple, so they referred to it as an apple. So they combined the spanish term "pina" to the english term "apple." Pineapple!