The Captain's Pineapple

02/12/2026

10/27/2025

Let’s just be honest - Instagram is not small business friendly. Unless you’re constantly posting reels, the algorithm doesn’t work for you. In fact, Instagram suppresses posts with language common to businesses that use this platform. Getting reach to people already following us is difficult, much less getting seen by nonfollowers. It feels like a losing battle and, frankly, it’s exhausting.

Regarding reels: What amounts to a few seconds of video is a huge production behind the scenes. With limited hours in the day, actual work takes priority and social media ends up falling by the wayside.

We’re mentioning this to explain why our posts have become fewer and far between. BUT we ARE here! This is pinned to the top of our photo grid to let you know that you can reach us here, you can access our website here (lǐnk în bïo), we are taking orders, we have not abandoned the folks here on Instagram!!

If you want to make sure not to miss any future posts, please hit the bell symbol on our profile to be alerted when we post something new.

We deeply appreciate everyone who has made the effort to connect with us here. Thank you all!

09/29/2025

As I make another batch of and realize how it long it takes, I just wanted to reflect on a few things. When I was at the Mothman Festival this year, a man tried my hot sauce, said it was amazing, and then scoffed at my prices saying, “for that price, you can keep it!” It was the last bottle, and someone behind him came straight up and said, “I’ll take it!” I had a moment of self doubt that maybe I expected too much for the product I create, but then I was reminded of all that I put into this product, and for those that don’t know, I’ll elaborate a bit.

Every batch of Moth Sauce is a months long process. Yes, it’s just hot sauce, but I start every pepper in these bottles from seed in early January. I spend tons of money on soil, tons of time growing, doing pest control, and getting these peppers properly harvested, all while using no chemical pesticides or fertilizers. I hand make and blend every batch. I label and wax dip every bottle. My products are all premium, hand made, Appalachian works of art, so if “I can keep it.” That’s ok with me, but when someone buys some, we do truly appreciate it, and we hope the experience is worth the wait. Thanks for taking the time to read this!

08/07/2025

📢 Listen up, Morgantown Area Folks! 📢

Next Saturday, August 16th, we’ll be set up at the Moonlight Market of Morgantown, WV at for their first ever seconds and vintage YART sale!

This market is a little different from the other Moonlight Markets you’ve been to in the past. You can expect all vendors to be offering one or more of the following:
- Vintage
- Repurposed
- Second-hand
- Unused art supplies
- 25% off of inventory

We’re getting together SO MANY goodies for you and they’re ALL going to be 25% (or more) off of the sticker prices!

We’ll post more during the next few days but an overview of the kinds of items we’ll have is:
- Seasonal
- Overstock
- Deadstock
- Last stock of discontinued items
- Refurbished
- Prototypes
- and items with irregularities or minor flaws

We don’t often have sales and this is the first time we’ve held a sale during a market so we hope you’ll come see us next Saturday!

As always, there will be food trucks and vendors as well as live music so come spend an evening shopping at this unique event!

Moonlight Market
August 16
4:00 - 9:00pm
Spruce Street pavilion

07/10/2025

As a small business that regularly utilizes the United States Postal Service, we dread getting word about shipping rate increases. Unfortunately, it is an inevitability and the USPS just recently announced new pricing for the federal fiscal year to go into effect on Monday, July 13. The rate increases vary across the board. This is a summary of what to expect.

We typically use Ground Advantage which appears to be one of the areas with the smallest increase but how the higher rates for “rural shipments” will affect WV is yet to be seen.

We truly understand how frustrating and concerning it is that prices are going up seemingly everywhere on everything but, please, remember: Small businesses don’t and can’t operate the same as big corporations like Amazon or Walmart that may be able to absorb or avoid some of the extra cost for a time

06/23/2025

We’ve got winners from our WV Day 2025 Giveaway!!!

And they are…🥁🥁🥁

💙 1st place prize:
💛 $10 gift card:

💙 2nd place prize:
💛 $5 gift card:

💙 3rd place prize:

💙👏🏻💛 Congrats to our winners 💛👏🏻💙

So what’s next? Hold tight - you don’t need to do anything. We’ll be getting in touch with all the winners. If you don’t hear from us by Friday (June 27), make sure to check your message requests/spam inboxes here on Instagram.

What to expect:
💙 Main prize pack winners will be receiving a gift card code and will pick their other prize pack options. We’ll also request your shipping address.
💛 Secondary winners will be receiving a gift card code.
💙 Third place prize pack winner will be receiving a gift card code and will pick their other prize pack options. We’ll also request your shipping address.

Thanks to everyone who entered, tagged their friends, followed us, and shared the giveaway post!!

06/20/2025

GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED
Winners will be announced on Monday, June 23!

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Okay, here we go! It’s West Virginia Day and here’s your chance to win some cool stuff! You’ve got 24 hours from the time of this post (3:00PM EST) to enter!

What’s at stake:

1st Place Prize:
- $20 e-gift card to use in our webstore
- $10 e-gift card for the friend you tag (details below)
- Your choice of Country Roads Spotify Code keychain -or- WV hotel keychain
- Your choice of a cork car coaster set -or- WV themed cork sticker pack

2nd Place Prize:
- $10 e-gift card to use in our webstore
- $5 e-gift card for the friend you tag (details below)
- Your choice of Country Roads Spotify Code keychain -or- WV hotel keychain
- Your choice of a cork car coaster set -or- WV themed cork sticker pack

3rd Place Prize:
- $5 e-gift card to use in our webstore
- Your choice of (1) of the following
— Country Roads Spotify Code keychain
— WV hotel keychain
— Cork car coaster set
— WV themed cork sticker pack

How to enter:
- Follow our account
- Like this post
- Leave a reply below telling us your favorite place in WV. Can be a landmark, restaurant, nature spot, anywhere.
- Tag a friend. Each tag is an additional entry.

Double extra entry: Share this post to your stories (IG or FB) or repost to your friends and family (FB). Make sure to tag us or, if your account is private, message us after you repost.

Winners will be announced on Monday, June 23rd

💛💙Good luck💙💛

Fine print: This giveaway is open to anyone in the United States. Facebook and Instagram entries will be aggregated to choose the winners. Shipping costs for prize packs will be covered by The Captain’s Pineapple. No purchase is necessary in order to enter. E-gift cards never expire. This giveaway is not affiliated with any Meta or other entity.

06/19/2025

Get ready, y’all!! West Virginia Day 2025 is tomorrow (Friday, June 20) and we’re gearing up for some special sales and giveaways!! We don’t have sales or giveaways often so you will NOT want to miss it!

Check back here tomorrow and share with your friends so they can have the chance to win some cool stuff too!

05/10/2025

Let Mom know how outSTANDING you think she is with one of these Pop-Out Greeting Cards!

Pick from 2 design options. You can then personalize the card with a special handwritten message on the back or underneath the pop-out pieces for a surprise for Mom when she removes and assembles the pieces to construct the cutest little freestanding tabletop greeting card!

There are a very select few of these available at Hoot and Howl (Morgantown area) and The Red Caboose (Huntington area). Go grab them while you can!

05/01/2025

Do you know any educators who were highly influential in forming the person you are today? Are there any who have dedicated special care and time teaching your children? Show them some love and appreciation with a beautiful custom wood ruler!

We’ll engrave a personal message in the natural wood strips on the front, back, or both. Choose from black, red, and/or purple trim (while supplies last) and provide us with a custom message or choose from one of our preset suggestions.

May 5-9 is Teacher Appreciation Week. Order now to receive next week!!

Shoot us a DM or email us at thecaptainspineapple@gmail.com for more info!

03/05/2025

[Lips directly on the microphone] Hello, is anyone out there????

Not to be That Person who is always baffled by the passing of time but, wow, how is it March already???

This is our first post of 2025. Still struggling with that “is it even worth it” question when it comes to making social media content these days knowing that the algorithm does not favor accounts that don’t post lots of videos and reels.

Don’t let the absence fool you, however. We’ve been busy behind the scenes and have some exciting things to announce in the coming days. To ensure you don’t miss any future posts, hit the little bell symbol at the top right of our profile to get notifications about new posts.

Also, if you want to support our small business on here so we’re not posting pointlessly into the void, please like, comment on, and share our posts to increase our reach. We would be most appreciative 🫶🏻

#2025

12/09/2024

In summary: Place orders NOW if you want them by Christmas!