fruit salad

I am amazed at the cost of fruit salad at the grocery deli. I could buy a giant sack of apples or more navel oranges then I could eat in two months for the cost of 1 LB of deli fruit salad. <-- possible exaggeration. And you have to buy 18 LBS because it's mostly water. <-- might have made that up. Does it really cost that much to chop up a bunch of random fruit? Also, it's a little bit weird that you can buy a pineapple in Denver for 1/3 the cost of a pineapple on Maui, unless you accidentally lift one from the field like we did and unexpectedly incidentally circumstantially perchance wantonly toss it in the car trunk like we did. And even then you have to factor in the cost of getting yourself to Maui, find a place to stay, rent a car, etc. I still feel a little bit guilty about that. Yes, I feel about this much guilt, -->·<-- , that dot worth of guilt.