It splits families, ruins office lunches, and starts more fights than politics. Sweet fruit on a savoury slice — genius balance or an insult to Italy? Defend your side.
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Add your commentMy wife loves it, I despise it, and 11 years in we just order half-and-half like functioning adults. The fact that nations can't manage what one married couple solved in 2015 says a lot about nations.
Sweet and savoury is the basis of half the world's best food. You people put honey on fried chicken and cranberry on turkey but lose your minds over a pineapple. The hypocrisy is the real crime here.
my italian grandmother saw a hawaiian pizza once and made the sign of the cross. i think about that more than i think about most actual tragedies
An actual Italian here. We are far more offended by your cold 'pepperoni' and pineapple than you realize, but honestly the cracked garlic-bread crime you call 'stuffed crust' hurts us more. Pick your battles.
the way people who are fine with anchovies, a literal salty hairy fish, look down on a pineapple. be so for real right now
the fun fact that ruins every argument: hawaiian pizza was invented by a greek guy in canada. theres nothing italian or hawaiian about it. the whole war is built on a lie and i love that for us
I genuinely think how someone feels about pineapple pizza tells you nothing about them and we've all just agreed to pretend it's a personality. and yet here I am, 12 comments deep, fully invested
chef here. the issue isnt the pineapple, its that 90% of places use canned syrupy garbage. grilled FRESH pineapple on a proper pie is genuinely excellent. you hate bad cooking, not the fruit
the real villain is people who put pineapple AND eat it with a knife and fork. one heresy at a time please, we have standards even in chaos
adding jalapeno is cheating, now youre using heat to cover the crime. if pineapple needed backup to taste good that proves my entire point
Came in firmly anti-pineapple. Leaving genuinely tempted to try the grilled-fresh version the chef described. This is the most a comment section has ever changed my dinner plans. The forum works, apparently.
its not the sweetness its the WETNESS. pineapple makes the whole slice soggy and warm fruit is a texture sin. i'd respect it more if the haters argued the real point
Put it on the pizza. Don't put it on the pizza. But if you make it a moral issue at a party I'm leaving early. It's a topping. Touch grass, eat slice, be free.
the gatekeeping is the funniest part. food evolves. tomatoes werent even ON pizza for most of italian history and were once thought poisonous. todays heresy is tomorrows tradition
I will die on this hill. Ham + pineapple + jalapeño is a perfect triangle of salty, sweet, and heat. You haters have simply never had it made well and it shows.
got my whole family arguing at dinner over this exact question last week. my dad hasnt felt this passionate about anything since his football team. maybe pineapple pizza is bringing families together actually
this is the take. nobody in this thread is mad at caramelized fresh pineapple. theyre mad at the cold wet rings from a tin. were arguing about two different foods
honestly the half and half compromise is cowardice. some hills you defend with the WHOLE pizza. choose a side and mean it
pro-pineapple here but i have to respect the haters' passion. nobody gets this fired up about mushrooms. the fruit earned its enemies and thats kind of beautiful
Anti-pineapple, but I've made peace with it. You enjoy your fruit slice, I'll enjoy knowing I'm right. We can coexist. I just won't be ordering for the group.
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