I wonder why canned pineapple is an ingredient in so many of the Midwestern dessert dishes (cookie salad, frog eye salad, even the Snicker salad). Wikipedia tel

I wonder why canned pineapple is an ingredient in so many of the Midwestern dessert dishes (cookie salad, frog eye salad, even the Snicker salad). Wikipedia tells me many of these recipes are dishes you'd be accustomed to seeing at a church picnic. Pineapple doesn't seem to be significantly midwestern or rooted in religion yet it's in almost half of these desserts.