I cut this in half, only used a half cup of sugar and used a whole large can of pineapple, drained, and a jar of marachino cherries, drained. I can't imagine using only half of an 8 oz. jar of pineapple as when it's drained, it's only about a 1/4 c. of pineapple. And I must have really small cans of marachino cherries. Mine had about 20 VERY small cherries. I also used unsalted butter and pecans for the nuts. This is an interesting bread, very beautiful looking and bakes up perfectly. Quite like a fruitcake, only without the spices. I think IF I were to make this again, I might add cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice and pass it around at Christmas. This wasn't too expensive to make as I bought most everything at a discount grocery store. I agree that this would be good with white chocolate chips. This just wasn't our favorite quick bread recipe.

This was ok, but all the additions made it too much like fruit cake for my taste. I guess I expected something that cost twice as much as banana bread to taste twice as good. I did reduce the chocolate chips to 1-1/2 c., which was definitely still plenty.

This was a wonderful recipe. The bread was full of flavor and very moist. I think I will lessen the amount of chocolate chips next time only because they seemed to cover power the other flavors, otherwise, this was awesome. Thanks for the recipe.

This has become my most liked quick bread/dessert bread. I used 4 bananas. Made 3-8x4" pans, used applesauce for shortening and pecans for walnuts. It went over amazingly well!! Next time I make it (and there will definitely be a next time) I'll use a little less chocolate chips, but otherwise its great. Thanks for the posting this unique and fabulous bread!!!

I used fresh cherries, white chocolate chips and eliminated the nuts. My husband was so happy with it, he took some to work. The boss loved it too, even asked for a copy of the recipe. we will make it again!