Food Crimes

Pizza with pineapple is delicious. Fight me

@P4t4t4_fr1t4 Alright. Name your weapons!

@Paladin Do you really need to ask? Obviously I choose a sling that launches pineapples

@Paladin I have a velociraptor wielding a flamethrower and six nunchuck monkeys. Name the time and place.

@P4t4t4_fr1t4 its ok, we’re all wrong sometimes.

@P4t4t4_fr1t4 I am here to provide backup, and I'm from the US, which means I got some big fancy weapons!

@P4t4t4_fr1t4 It's okay but it's better when you have your pizza and you have your pineapple and you don't mix them.

@P4t4t4_fr1t4 It's great when you're in the mood for it, but to distracting when you're not. It's the texture.

...Of course, I like spinach on white pizza, so I don't have room to judge. :p

@P4t4t4_fr1t4 No fight here...if you add double hot peppers to the order. And bacon.

@P4t4t4_fr1t4 I don't see why the well-known and popular combination 'ham and pineapple' should suddenly become bad just because pizza is involved

I will never understand why some people get so upset about pineapple on pizza. If you don't like it, don't eat it yourself. There are people (like my mother) who HATE green peppers on pizza, but she never ranted and raved about how they don't belong there. She just didn't eat them herself. I know a lot of people are just having fun with it, but there's plenty of people who get violently angry about it in real life.

I'm also willing to bet most people bashing it have never actually tried it. I thought it was weird myself, but then I worked for a year at Pizza Hut and quickly got tired of regular pizza with my free meals. (One per four hour shift at the time.) So I tried different stuff. Anchovies are insanely salty, pretty much ruining the pizza. Barbecue beef was excellent, and Hawaiian pizza (pineapple + ham) was really good and became my favorite. Domino's has a Hawaiian adds roasted red pepper (a bit sweet) and bacon (savory, as is the ham) and is _really_ good.

If you want pizzas with toppings that make you truly wonder WTF they were thinking, look at the stuff they put on pizza in Japan. Pineapple won't seem remotely weird or gross after that.

@Manabi The trick with anchovies is that you have to soak them a few times to get the worst of the salt off. Which no American pizza place does. And it's on the menu in most of America because the cans are cheap and last a very long time.

The classic way to do it is you take the anchovies with the salt soaked off, and cook them on a pizza with only sauce, and just dust with some pecorino romano right out of the oven.

I don't get the fuss about pineapple on pizza. "Hawaiian" pizza is pretty good.

The problem with calling "Hawaiian Pizza" such is that pineapple isn't even a native fruit of Hawai'i. James Dole and Co. imported pineapples (along with other tropical fruits) from South America and took advantage of Hawai'i's climate and inhabitants to dominate the tropical fruit market, a position in said market which was solidified when the U.S. annexed the Kingdom of Hawai'i and forcefully obtained it as a new state. Now it's a military-occupied tourist trap.

I honestly do not give a damn if people like pineapples on their pizza, just irks me when they call it Hawaiian.

It's amazing how we are able to be disgusted by other people's cuisine.

We eat Muscle, but internal organ is off the menu for most people.
Milk is disgusting when you think about it, and worse, we have thousands of ways for it to ROT before we eat it.
Scandinavia has figured out how to make several different forms of edible soap out of fish, which is about as disgusting as cheese when you think about it.

@CorruptUser And don't forget Icelandic buried, fermented, peed-upon, and dried shark. (Hákarl. It's talked about in the Icelandic Cookbook strip.)

@Striker2054 Imagine hákarl with ketchup on pizza

@CorruptUser

I'm from scandinavia, and I can't for the life of me figure out what you mean by edible soap made from fish.

Like sure I know of many many quite disgusting things done to fish but none of them resemble soap that I can think of.

@jakob_aland Soap is an alkaline treated fat or oil so lye treated fish like lutefisk especially oily fish could be interpreted that way. Now I'm wondering if a lutefisk soap could be made workable.

@Gonnhirrin Lots of food is treat with lye, if you make them correct, e.g. laugenbrezel, bagels and some types ramen.

Banana on a pizza?!? What is next?!? Surstrøm on pizza’s?!?!?

@RoedGroenOeboer

*Elbows other Swede*
"Write that down, write that down!"

@RoedGroenOeboer That will be obviously food crime! No pardon for that lol

IMHO, I like pineapple on pizza - it makes the pizza more digestible
And about banana, every all-you-can-eat pizza places (and some local brands too) got banana with cinnamon pizza as a dessert
We have some dessert flavors like sweet pineapple, chocolate and coconut, and my fave is goiabada (kinda a quince cheese, but made with guava) and cheese (this combination is also known as "Romeu e Julieta" / "Romeo and Juliet") *YUM!*

This is probably needed by now:

Here is an American blogging about Swedish pizzas, which include the one with bananas. He actually liked them:
http://caliswede.blogspot.com/2011/12/swedish-pizza.html

I remember when I went to Italy there was this one restaurant that had the “Americana” pizza that had fries and hotdogs on it. I just thought it was funny.

@Braisheart22 Speaking as an American of Italian descent, I find the notion of pizza topped with hot dogs and fries quite off-putting.

But that's just me...

Everybody is entitled to eat as they want, but some flavors are traditional, some are not traditional but similar to the traditional ones, and some are none of both. Pizza with ananas is not traditional (although of course getting there slowly) and does not match with the traditional flavor (as any sweet topping). And as I consider that tradition is usually the result of accumulated wisdom (although with plenty of exceptions) and I like it in this particular case, you will *never* see me eating pizza with ananas, bananas or nutella. Absolutely never ever. But that's me.

@EduardoSilva
Pineapple on pizza originates from 1962. How long tradition has to be for it to 'pass'?

@piir2 I guess much older than me... 200 years is not bad, that is already about 8 generations. Counts as "tradition" in my book. Oktoberfest, for example, is a young tradition. If the pizza with pineapple reaches this age, it will start counting for me as one of the "plenty exceptions".

@EduardoSilva Nutella? That sounds like one of the dessert pizzas done by a pizza buffet chain here. I think it's just plain icing and chocolate syrup drizzled over it, as real hazelnut spread would get too expensive, but it sounds good.

@Mattexian I respect your taste but I do not share it. I would never eat any of both, my "nutella" being an ad-hoc invented example of the most unpleasant thing I could think about on a pizza.

Norway and Denmark, you tell the pizza makers what you want on your pizza when you order it. unless your order got mixed up with someone else

also Sweden only the peel is yellow, and the banana itself is white

also, yellow pepper topping exists and that is a fruit


edit: someone thumbs me down cause they don't know how ordering a pizza works? or was it because I said on the peel of a banana is yellow or that pepper is a fruit?

@AmericanButterfly Don't worry about it. Once I got thumbed down for asking why I got thumbed down.

@AmericanButterfly
Pizza ordering doesn't exactly work the same way in Scandinavia as it does in America.

Pizzerias here have a menu of various predetermined pizza compositions to choose from. An option to have a pizza where you choose all the topping yourself do exist in a lot of pizzerias here, but is not the standard procedure.

@EricTheRedAndWhite that sounds dumb as heck sorry but if I order a pizza I want to know what the toppings are

so in Scandinavia, you just order a pizza and say "I want two toppings" and wait and see what they give you? it's not like "I want pepperoni and olives" so you might end up with a topping you don't like. like onions and anchovies?

shouldn't they tell you what the toppings are for health and legal reasons what if someone accidently orders something they're allergic to and don't pay attention and bites the pizza with the topping they're allergic to?

@AmericanButterfly
The menu does mention the toppings of each pizza.

And the pizzas in the menu are numbered, so when you call the pizzeria, you just tell them what number you want.

In case you want a pizza where you choose all the topping yourself, if the pizzeria offers that, they will of course ask which ones you want.

@EricTheRedAndWhite yeah but what if you're ordering a pizza from the phone? do they tell you the toppings then?

@AmericanButterfly
Pizzerias here always have a stack of menu cards, for new customers to take back home with them (only one card per customer, of course) if they want to order over phone another time.

@EricTheRedAndWhite ok so how did Denmark and Norway accidentally order pizza with pineapple?

@AmericanButterfly
Some things are better not to think too much about.

@EricTheRedAndWhite maybe they were drunk

@AmericanButterfly
Sounds plausible to me. Pizza is a popular hangover food, after all.

@AmericanButterfly
[grabs two random German pizzerias' menus from the pile and scans the lists of their pizza variants]
See here, they both have a "pizza alla capricciosa" on the menu, but one lists salami (along with ham, mushrooms, and artichoke) as part of the topping and the other doesn't. And don't get me started on "house style" or how dissimilar spices or the cheese can get for "the same pizza" from one pizzeria to the next ...

(Still, if *I* were the emcee of original Italian cuisine visiting Germany, I'd rather have a fit over "Italian" restaurants much more often listing a dish of fried potatoes than any sort of risotto. And I'm grinding my teeth to call either that.)

@AmericanButterfly
Come to Taiwan, where Pizzahut is offering durian pizzas.
Technically a yellow fruit, too.

@CHTtw ooh the smell fruit, no thanks

@CHTtw Oh gawd! And here I thought supporting Taiwan made us the good guys!

I had no idea they were such terrorists!