So, a Greek guy in Canada made an Italian staple into something that he thought would represent a Hawaiian cuisine (even though it was just the can, many people naively believe it truly is a Hawaiian dish)
Once someone told me they thought that’s how they ate their pizza over there. Lol.
Nevertheless, if I were in Canada at that time, I would have visited his restaurant and ordered one of the originals. It’s not the best pizza topping but it is also not the worst. (I hate anchovies, fish of any kind or mushrooms on my pizza. Mushrooms are good in other dishes.)
You know, if it had been invented by a Hawaiian, it would probably have Spam on it.
Hawaiians love them some Spam.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-hawaiians-are-utterly-obsessed-with-spam/
Ham and pineapple are an awesome combo. Not quite spam, but fairly close.
I like fried spam. I really never had it otherwise.
And it’s delicious.
The Greeks are expert at trolling the Italians.
Who got the last laugh?
Canada, I guess? 🤷
That would explain why pineapple pizza included Canadian bacon.
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I wonder if the just call it bacon up there.
It’s called back bacon, 🥓 is still just bacon.
Actually, they call it “Michael”
“If you’re going shopping, could you pick up some Michael? We’re almost out, eh” – every single Canadian
Pineapple gets an outsized amount of attention as a pizza topping for how mid it is. I don’t hate or love it, I’m simply okay with it.
Hawaiian pizza is mid but Jalapeño and Pineapple pizza is S-tier. Spicy and sweet.
I put anchovies on too.
Its like someone put $20 worth of “sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami” nickels in a sock and then hit you in the mouth with it.
Add tomato slices and chicken.
I’m not personally a fan of jalapenos, but pineapple and banana pepper is also a really good combo for sweet/tangy.
While people hate on it for flavor something, idk, I warn people that pineapple retains heat and to make sure that it cools before eating. Pineapple stays burn the roof of your mouth hot longer than the cheese and sauce!
I first tried pineapple on pizza earlier this year, and discovered I actually like it, it adds a little bit of a different flavour profile to the pizza.
It’s my favorite topping. I doubt most people who hate it have even tried it
I haven’t tried it, but I have had warm/hot pineapple in other situations and I know I don’t like it.
Similarly, I don’t have to have a banana split to know I won’t like it since I already hate bananas.
Also, the traditional Hawaiian pizza also has ham on it, which I also don’t like. You don’t necessarily have to try a dish to know you won’t like it.
See that’s a valid excuse. Similarly I don’t eat seafood so I know in advance I’m not gonna like anything with oysters in it. It’s different when someone doesn’t have those restrictions.
I haven’t tried poutine or broccoli on pizza.
It would be like putting salsa on Cajun food. There’s a conflict there that’s readily apparent.
You could just sweeten the sauce and increase the acidity to get a similar result as pineapple.
Oh no the best pineapple pizzas are the ones without sauce/with white sauce. The pizza oven cuts the acidity of the pineapple and makes it delicately sweet.
I ordered pineapple on pizza as a joke at a party. My buddy said to order 10 pizzas for the party and only gave me a list of 7 toppings. The other three he probably assumed would just be plain. Wrong. Pineapple! I had never tried it before that or after. It was a prank that went wrong though because we liked it a bit more than we should have. I ended up eating a whole pizza. he had his own and the other was eaten by some of the other guests. He now likes it and gets it a lot. Never had the actual Hawaiian with ham. I don’t eat ham, but I eat other pork products like bacon and pepperoni.
And on that day, pizza crimes were born.
Meanwhile, OP, please pass me those mushrooms. Nom nom!
I had pineapple on pizza once. It wasn’t as bad as I thought but not on my top ten. I like mushrooms with steak, cheese steak and other dishes and casseroles. I had an anchovy and not a fan. Tried to eat a sardine, was horrible. Fish on pizza is a crime if fruit is.
Fun fact: Tomato is considered a fruit.
Yeah but it is used as a vegetable. So is cucumber (but I haven’t seen cucumber on pizza, but I have seen pickles on a cheese burger pizza). People don’t like sweet/sour fruits on pizza. While tomatoes are often sweet, not as sweet as most fruits. All plants that are edible and come from flower ovaries are fruits: bell peppers, squash, eggplant.
Just a friendly reminder, pollen is plant cum. Enjoy that thought the next time you have a sneezing fit.
Yea and we eat plant reproductive organs. But it doesn’t surprise me because we eat “babies” ie chicken eggs. Young animals ie veal. Also, bees vomit the pollen they process in their stomachs onto the honeycomb. Nature is indeed wild, but we are notoriously wilder.
Chicken eggs aren’t babies, they’re not fertilized.
Unless you have had Balut.
Goddamn tree jizz!
Also, most fruits with ‘berry’ in the name aren’t actual berries.
Bananas, grapes, eggplants and oranges, however, are berries.
https://www.livescience.com/57477-why-are-bananas-considered-berries.html
I should have added that lol. Strawberry was one that surprised me a while ago. Never knew that they are in the rose family and flowers kind of.
And I was mad at animal crossing for putting bananas on palm trees . They are herbs and berries.
I would never order it, but I’ll eat a “Hawaiin” if someone puts it in front of me (well, would have before my gluten issues). Living in Japan taught me that a lot of things work amazingly well on pizza. Roasted corn is one of my favorites. Bulgogi and kimchi is another one that works really nicely.
Sign me up for bulgogi and kimchi on wood fired Neapolitan style.
I love Hawaiian pizza, not my absolute favorite but I order it quite often
Me and my wife remember that when we were kids Hawaiian pizza usually had cherry as well as pineapple but it suddenly disappeared, was that common previously it was that something from our hometown?
Since pineapple already is in dishes like ham because it degrades meat and adds flavor I can understand the logic but cherry!?!?. That fruit should not go on it.
Reminds me of Chicken apple walnut salad. I ended up picking out the apple slices.
When and where was that? I have never seen cherry on pizza before, nor do I remember reading about it.
We also invented hockey and basketball, and 2 out of three ain’t bad.
So many things originate from immigrants who moved to the US and then made it by inventing something. I didn’t know that basketball was made by a Canadian in Massachusetts.
I hope to vacation up in Canada one day. I love mountainous areas and a lot of good bands and influencers I follow live there or are from there.
There’s also a “Canadian” pizza which is usually Pepperoni, Bacon and Mushrooms, sometimes made with a Cheddar Cheese/Mozza blend depending on the place
Well I have definitely had pepperoni and bacon on my pizza. Those ingredients would work well on a cheesesteak, I would eat mushrooms on a sandwich. There was a place near me with “stereotypical ethnic” pizzas and sandwiches that had Canadian pizza on it if I remember correctly. They had Chinese, Greek, Mexican etc. they also had celebrity/historian sandwiches that were decent.
Lots of foods have misleading cultural backgrounds. Chicken tikka masala, for instance, was invented in Glasgow.
I have been to the original hawaiin pizza joint in chatham I didn’t order the Hawaiian I don’t mind hawaiin pizza but it’s not my first pick.
Is any food named after a place ever actually from that place?
Champagne notwithstanding.
Russian dressing. French dressing. French fries, toast, German chocolate cake. Are good examples.
However,
Cheddar cheese is actually from Cheddar (England).
Italian dressing originated in Rome with olive oil and vinegar among some other ingredients like seasonings.
Romaine lettuce came from countries around Mediterranean sea and named “Roman lettuce” from Italian translation. Whoever named it that may have been from Rome or Italian. It was also called that in the other countries, sources say possibly named by someone Greek calling it Roman lettuce.
Buffalo wings are from Buffalo, NY.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
You left out the best part! The diagram!
Oof, I’m on dark mode, apparently their ‘white’ background is actually transparent… ☹️
Either way, have an upvote for the thought and effort 👍
I had no idea toast was from Toast! You learn something new every day…
Soy beans are named after soy sauce, which isn’t what you asked but it’s a fact I recently learned that surprised me.
Another TIL for me. Japanese: shōyu.
The colour orange didn’t exist until they discovered oranges.
Canaries are named after the Canary islands. The islands were named after dogs (canines).
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I didn’t know that, so I’ll accept it lol
Isn’t it the reverse, since soy sauce uses soy beans?
I’m glad you asked! That’s the fun bit. The sauce, called shōyu in Japanese, became popular among westerners and they called it “soy sauce.” When those westerners traveled to Japan and were shown the beans, they called them “soy beans” because they were used to make the sauce.
No, but I hear Julius Caesar invented a salad.
Which is weird, because Parmesan cheese didn’t exist until the middle ages and I have no idea about croutons.
I couldn’t find any info on that. Only that the Caesar salad was named after someone named Caesar.
That’s because Julius Caesar didn’t invent it and I was joking.
I knew he didn’t invent it. I googled whether he invented any salad or had a favorite but all the results were about how he didn’t invent Caesar salad lol.
The joker here is Caesar Romero who actually invented the caesar salad.
I thought he was in California when he did it. Go figure.
