[Food] Pineapple on Pizza

[dsr-burnley]

How snobbish does a business owner have to be, to refuse to sell to people who don't meet his high standards?

 

[Stato]

I like a bit of pineapple in a burger too. I also used to eat Malaya curries with pineapple before my taste buds started dying and I needed something hotter. My missus is a ananaphobic and wouldn't let me have cheese and pineapple on sticks at our wedding.

I blame Thatcher. This country wasn't so fussy about authenticity back in the seventies when we were putting raisins in curry, inventing Pot Noodles and calling tomato juice a starter.

 

[schmunk]

Ham and Pineapple pizza is FABULOUS.

There. I said it.

 

[Bakero]

My missus is a ananaphobic and wouldn't let me have cheese and pineapple on sticks at our wedding.

You were lucky she didn't call the whole thing off

 

[Stato]

You were lucky she didn't call the whole thing off

Was I?

 

[Cordwainer]

You’ll have to zoom in a bit under the rozzers box..

 

[Guinness Boy]

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

I have a general rule to avoid gammon.

 

[dolphins]

Another vote for the Hawaiian pizza being decent.

I don't know if it is a fever dream, but seem to recall a similar type of offering from Grubbs - a burger with banana in it? Hot it worked REALLY well!

 

[Guinness Boy]

Italians are just upset that 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?

Because there are probably 250 odd things that go better on a pizza. It’s the same reason I don’t make or serve anchovy cake.

 

[Bozza]

Well this is weird.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

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

Never watched it.

I'm not saying the PR exercise is HILARIOUS, just the reaction to a mild PR joke is slightly odd.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

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 once had a, presumably vegetarian, guy on a table next to me ask if he could have the carbonara without the meat. This was in Rome, he was told no.

 

[Stato]

Another vote for the Hawaiian pizza being decent.

I don't know if it is a fever dream, but seem to recall a similar type of offering from Grubbs - a burger with banana in it? Hot it worked REALLY well!

BBC iPlayer has made a lot of Arena documentaries available, including Jim White's haunting 'Searching For The One Eyed Jesus'. At the weekend we watched one that began with a similar Southern Gothic feel. It concerned Elvis' s eating habits and showed the recipe for his mom's fried peanut butter and banana sandwich. That reminded me of the Grubb' s burger. Didn't they name it after somewhere else in the Pacific?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

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.

“Go on you Monster!”

 

[GoingUp]

Another vote for the Hawaiian pizza being decent.

I don't know if it is a fever dream, but seem to recall a similar type of offering from Grubbs - a burger with banana in it? Hot it worked REALLY well!

I think Burger Off did pineapple and banana burger too, lovely.

 

[schmunk]

I think Burger Off did pineapple and banana burger too, lovely.

Was that for pudding...?

 

[Greg Bobkin]

These are a good PR move

This next taste tariff could be menu-defining.

 

[7dialssouthpaw]

Another vote for the Hawaiian pizza being decent.

I don't know if it is a fever dream, but seem to recall a similar type of offering from Grubbs - a burger with banana in it? Hot it worked REALLY well!

ex- Grubbs employee ( in 1990) and yes, there was one with banana and peanut butter, if I recall.

Internet confirms: and with pineapple, too!

http://www.cheeseburgerboy.com/2011/09/grubbs-burgers-brighton.html

 

[Greg Bobkin]

These days, if you say you like pineapple on a pizza, you get arrested and thrown in a kitchen with GregG Wallarse.

 

[Comrade Sam]

I can't stand pineapple, so it was a relief when I went to Hawaii and nothing had ham and pineapple on. Not even the food.