Pineapple as a Pizza Topping (3 Viewers)

[GW93]

agree with the anchovies part..with onions. we had pineapple and ham in aruba years ago..I guess if I was hungry enough I would eat it again ....not a must or a bust in my eyes..

I love anchovy, but instead of putting a single filet down on each slice, I think you should take 3 or 4 filets, chop them, and sprinkle them about the pizza. A little goes a LOOONG way

 

[Galbreath34]

What I've never understood about pineapple or anchovy is how much people seem to give a **** about whether or not someone else does it.

I mean, mayo on a pb and j sounds as disgusting as can be to me, or if somebody liked banana in their gumbo I wouldn't want a taste, but if some people want to do it I'd let them knock themselves out, it wouldn't get me all worked up. I know we're mostly joking around, but some people do seem to get legitimately riled up about pineapple or anchovy on other people's pizza.

(Oh, and before someone brings it up on the other half of a pizza being shared isn't the same as just getting mad about a guy down the hall or the idea that someone somewhere is doing it. I'm talking about people that seriously get mad about it being done by unrelated people.)

 

[kcirdor]

What I've never understood about pineapple or anchovy is how much people seem to give a **** about whether or not someone else does it.

The problem is when you go visit someone and they order that ****, and it ruins the pizza and you just have to grin and bear it cause they "can't have pork." You have eat a slice of ******* pineapple pizza, gross. Or if you are ordering in a group and some ******* says hey yea lets order something that barely 50% or less(anchovy) of people like and make everyone else suffer. Buy your own damn pizza. But, I don't give a **** if you like turd salads. Have at it.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

What I've never understood about pineapple or anchovy is how much people seem to give a **** about whether or not someone else does it.

I mean, mayo on a pb and j sounds as disgusting as can be to me, or if somebody liked banana in their gumbo I wouldn't want a taste, but if some people want to do it I'd let them knock themselves out, it wouldn't get me all worked up. I know we're mostly joking around, but some people do seem to get legitimately riled up about pineapple or anchovy on other people's pizza.

(Oh, and before someone brings it up on the other half of a pizza being shared isn't the same as just getting mad about a guy down the hall or the idea that someone somewhere is doing it. I'm talking about people that seriously get mad about it being done by unrelated people.)

If you can’t trust them with something as basic as pizza topping, how can you trust them with anything?

 

[Saint_Ward]

What I've never understood about pineapple or anchovy is how much people seem to give a **** about whether or not someone else does it.

I mean, mayo on a pb and j sounds as disgusting as can be to me, or if somebody liked banana in their gumbo I wouldn't want a taste, but if some people want to do it I'd let them knock themselves out, it wouldn't get me all worked up. I know we're mostly joking around, but some people do seem to get legitimately riled up about pineapple or anchovy on other people's pizza.

(Oh, and before someone brings it up on the other half of a pizza being shared isn't the same as just getting mad about a guy down the hall or the idea that someone somewhere is doing it. I'm talking about people that seriously get mad about it being done by unrelated people.)

I don't like Anchovies. My dad loved them. He'd always get a whole pizza with them, but not even eat half of it. I'd get so mad, because there wouldn't be enough pizza for Mom and I, especially if a friend came over too. It took weeks of hounding my mom (who'd pick up the pizza on her way home from work) to only get anchovies on HALF of one pizza.

I had to learn to choke them down, just so I could eat some times. I really hate Anchovies now.

But I don't care if someone else likes them.. just don't make me suffer.

 

[Optimus Prime]

At some point in the never-ending debate over whether pineapple belongs on pizza, the haters, maybe with tongues pressed against cheek, invoked Godwin’s Law. Yep, they compared those who like the tropical fruit on pies to Hitler.

One said they were worse than Hitler. The comparison would become a common insult, occasionally even flung back at the snobs who turn their nose up at a pineapple-topped pizza.

Many foods have taken their lumps over the years. Avocado toast, cake pops and kale Caesar salads come to mind. But nothing has sustained the hate like Hawaiian pizza, the most recognizable pie that features chunks of the divisive fruit. According to recent data from YouGov Omnibus, nearly a quarter of Americans say pineapple is one of their least favorite pizza toppings.

Those who live in the Northeast or are older than 55 hate pineapple toppings even more. Only two ingredients generate more loathing among American pie eaters: oily anchovies and slimy eggplant.

Celebrities, politicians, chefs and even minimum-wage pizzamakers count themselves as members of this pineapple hate group. Gordon Ramsay, a chef never at a loss for words, once opined, “You don’t put . . . pineapple on pizza.” He used a colorful adjective before “pineapple,” to emphasize his disdain.

The president of Iceland said he would outlaw pineapple on pizza if he could, a statement that made him an instant hero in some circles.

A couple of years ago, a University of Arizona undergraduate tried to add pineapple to her barbecue chicken pizza, but the pie arrived sans fruit, with a note from the campus restaurant: “Couldn’t bring myself to put pineapple on it. Thats gross. Sorry.” A $5 bill was taped to the pizza box.

It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what’s behind the animosity toward pineapple on pizza. Pineapple itself was No. 10 on a list of the most-popular fruits purchased in America last year, behind bananas and oranges but ahead of pears, cherries and avocados (!!).

It probably goes without saying that none of the top 20 fruits in America is a common pizza topping, though some, such as pears and apples, make an occasional cameo.

Jonathan Allen, co-owner of the superb Pizza CS in Rockville, Md., told me that he ate Hawaiian pizza as an undiscriminating kid but now frowns on pineapple on any kind of pie, especially on the Neapolitan rounds served at his restaurant. He doesn’t like the texture. A sign over the counter at Pizza CS reinforces Allen’s stance: “No slices. No pineapple. No ranch.”…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2019/04/23/pineapple-on-pizza-is-easy-to-hate-at-least-in-theory/

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[buzd]

Inside the Pineapple Pizza Scandal Dividing Italy

When Italian chef Gino Sorbillo put a pineapple pizza on his Naples pizzeria's menu, he unleashed a fierce debate among locals—many of whom accused him of pandering to American tourists.

www.thrillist.com

 

[gavinj]

Ain’t no rules in pizza.

 

[TenTwo]

I like it ok on pizza although I very rarely order it. I prefer to eat pineapple by itself, and it is one of my favorite fruits. I don’t understand the hatred, but I like cilantro too, and I know some people think it tastes like soap. People just have different taste buds.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Whatever it is Disney made is not recognizably gumbo in any fashion.

 

[gavinj]

Yeah, gumbo has rules.

 

[Madmarsha]

 

[UpHere]

it's called a Hawaiian up here and it's delicious
ham and pineapple is as right as pepperoni mushroom

 

[zeetes]

Inside the Pineapple Pizza Scandal Dividing Italy

When Italian chef Gino Sorbillo put a pineapple pizza on his Naples pizzeria's menu, he unleashed a fierce debate among locals—many of whom accused him of pandering to American tourists.

www.thrillist.com

The €7 white pie is topped with three types of cheese—smoked provola and two regional varieties of smoked cacioricotta cheese—and finished with twice-cooked, caramelized pineapple.

sounds delicious.