[Food] Pineapple on Pizza

[Stato]

Another PR exercise from a pizza company piggybacking on the Hawaian pizza schism:

Norwich restaurant charges £100 for a pineapple pizza

Pizzeria adds eye-watering price-tag to divisive Hawaiian variant to put customers off ordering it

www.theguardian.com

What I don't get about the whole business is the preciousness of those who get so het up about the issue. I don't like anchovies, so I just don't order them. It's just a takeaway pizza. It's not culture or art. It's not history. Nothing is being dismantled or destroyed. Yes, some places in Italy may define pizza in rigidly classic terms, but I suspect that those people would also find whatever Norwich is calling a pizza as unaccetable with or without pineapple. The horse has bolted. There are other places selling pizzas with Chinese and Indian culinary influences. Its just oven cooked bread, cheese and tomato. It's like getting upset about what other people put in their sandwiches. Its time the ananaphobics just chilled out.

If they're that bothered about messing about with a classic, why do they sell alcohol free beer?

 

[Barham's tash]

My favourite ever pizza was probably ham, sweetcorn and pineapple from the Bull @ Henfield back in the day. Definitely on my list as highly acceptable.

 

[MattBackHome]

Rory Sutherland's 'bacon sandwich' idea in pizza form - pure PR.

Good luck to them.

 

[Bakero]

In Italy they put frankfurters and chips on pizza so I'm not sure why pineapple attracts such opprobrium

 

[banjo]

There’re just expensive sandwich.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Another PR exercise from a pizza company piggybacking on the Hawaian pizza schism:

Norwich restaurant charges £100 for a pineapple pizza

Pizzeria adds eye-watering price-tag to divisive Hawaiian variant to put customers off ordering it

www.theguardian.com

What I don't get about the whole business is the preciousness of those who get so het up about the issue. I don't like anchovies, so I just don't order them. It's just a takeaway pizza. It's not culture or art. It's not history. Nothing is being dismantled or destroyed. Yes, some places in Italy may define pizza in rigidly classic terms, but I suspect that those people would also find whatever Norwich is calling a pizza as unaccetable with or without pineapple. The horse has bolted. There are other places selling pizzas with Chinese and Indian culinary influences. Its just oven cooked bread, cheese and tomato. It's like getting upset about what other people put in their sandwiches. Its time the ananaphobics just chilled out.

If they're that bothered about messing about with a classic, why do they sell alcohol free beer?

I think the comic tone of their pr exercise has somewhat passed you by.

'The menu description reads: “Yeah, for £100 you can have it. Order the champagne too! Go on you Monster!”

“I absolutely loathe pineapple on a pizza,” said the restaurant’s co-owner Francis Woolf. The head chef, Quin Jianoran, agreed, adding: “I love a pina colada, but pineapple on pizza? Never. I’d rather put a bloody strawberry on one than that tropical menace.”


It's meant to be funny.

 

[Guinness Boy]

In Italy they put frankfurters and chips on pizza so I'm not sure why pineapple attracts such opprobrium

Because it only belongs in desserts and cocktails?

 

[jcdenton08]

These are a good PR move

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Putting pineapple on a pizza is akin to putting beetroot in a burger. Yes I'm talking to you, convicts

 

[Bakero]

I saw this one in Italy a few years back:

 

[JBizzle]

I think the comic tone of their pr exercise has somewhat passed you by.

'The menu description reads: “Yeah, for £100 you can have it. Order the champagne too! Go on you Monster!”

“I absolutely loathe pineapple on a pizza,” said the restaurant’s co-owner Francis Woolf. The head chef, Quin Jianoran, agreed, adding: “I love a pina colada, but pineapple on pizza? Never. I’d rather put a bloody strawberry on one than that tropical menace.”


It's meant to be funny.

Yeah, but why laugh when you can write something angry instead? It's actually a funny PR piece. It's their menu, they can do what they want with it.

 

[Bakero]

Italians are funny with their food rules; no cappuccino after midday, no wine with pizza etc. It's an interesting insight into a culture where tradition is paramount.

What I do understand is their stance on ingredients being randomly added that change the essence of a dish eg. cream in a carbonara. If you want to make a creamy pasta dish that's fine, but give it a new name.

Overall, it's good that the are so passionately defensive of their food culture. It would be a great shame if the regional diversity died out, something I fear may happen as the Nonnas skills aren't passed down.

 

[studio150]

I think the comic tone of their pr exercise has somewhat passed you by.

'The menu description reads: “Yeah, for £100 you can have it. Order the champagne too! Go on you Monster!”

“I absolutely loathe pineapple on a pizza,” said the restaurant’s co-owner Francis Woolf. The head chef, Quin Jianoran, agreed, adding: “I love a pina colada, but pineapple on pizza? Never. I’d rather put a bloody strawberry on one than that tropical menace.”


It's meant to be funny.

I can only conclude that you find Mrs Browns Boys funny.

 

[Stato]

I know its a jokey PR exercise. I thought I had indicated that at the beginning by describing it as a schism. I'm not angry. Just pointing out that people in Norfolk strictly defining pizza is a bit like Duran Duran thinking that their cover of 'White Lines' allows them define hip hop.

 

[GT49er]

Because it only belongs in desserts and cocktails?

So, are you equally traumatised by pineapple being served up with gammon?

 

[Gabbiano]

Italians are funny with their food rules; no cappuccino after midday, no wine with pizza etc. It's an interesting insight into a culture where tradition is paramount.

What I do understand is their stance on ingredients being randomly added that change the essence of a dish eg. cream in a carbonara. If you want to make a creamy pasta dish that's fine, but give it a new name.

Overall, it's good that the are so passionately defensive of their food culture. It would be a great shame if the regional diversity died out, something I fear may happen as the Nonnas skills aren't passed down.

I found this endlessly tedious when I dated an Italian. Particularly if I was just trying to make a quick dinner, but what I'd prepared fell foul of some arbitrary pasta rule.

A lot of Italian dishes are quite simple, what makes them good is the quality or combination of ingredients. Other cuisines also do similar things (Spanish for instance) but god forbid you suggest that you prefer the foreign version over the Italian one. And the preconceptions about any kind of English food are strong - e.g. cheddar will always be burger cheese, no matter the quality.

Rant over.

 

[Bakero]

Because it only belongs in desserts and cocktails?

Italians are just upset that they didn't invent the combo

Tbh I'd never order one as the kind of place that would serve a Hawaiian pizza probably wouldn't do it well (yes, I am a food snob). However, a decent pizza with good ham and pineapple would undoubtedly be delicious. Pork and pineapple works so why not?

 

[Bakero]

I found this endlessly tedious when I dated an Italian. Particularly if I was just trying to make a quick dinner, but what I'd prepared fell foul of some arbitrary pasta rule.

A lot of Italian dishes are quite simple, what makes them good is the quality or combination of ingredients. Other cuisines also do similar things (Spanish for instance) but god forbid you suggest that you prefer the foreign version over the Italian one. And the preconceptions about any kind of English food are strong - e.g. cheddar will always be burger cheese, no matter the quality.

Rant over.

I feel your pain. I used to live in Italy and now in Spain and have encountered many such attitudes. If it's not grandma's recipe and the ingredients aren't sourced from the right allotment, it's inferior

Remember when Jamie Oliver was castigated for daring to add chorizo to a paella?

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

I saw this one in Italy a few years back:

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Saw the same in Malta but at €100. My wife thought it was a typo so tried to order it and the guy told us he would never put pineapple on a pizza but he put it on the menu as a joke as it was the English people who always seemed to ask for it.

 

[maltaseagull]

I can only conclude that you find Mrs Browns Boys funny.

Just to be contrary, I thought the pizza advert was amusing.
Mrs Browns boys is ´not.