Italian chef fired from Queensland restaurant after refusing to put pineapple on pizza
www.bbc.co.uk
He had told his employer, an Australian restaurant, that pineapple on pizza was "offensive" to Italian culture.
  • tangentism@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Guy who dislikes putting pineapple on pizzas goes to the region in Australia where they fkn love putting pineapple on pizzas, then gets upset about the fact.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Once you get past the cute framing (“pineapple on pizza: you either love it or hate it, but know Italians see it as an affront, right?”), this looks like a stalking horse to legitimise the idea of “religious freedom” rights, like those of pharmacists to refuse to sell birth control.

  • ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialEnglish
    52·
    2 days ago

    Hilarious, but also kind of ridiculous.

    Pizza is not a true Italian invention, unless were qualifying basically any cheese on bread product as a pizza.

    Pizza started as Tomato Pie, and Italian-American invention that was inspired by less-pizzaish things that are of Italian origin. Tomato Pie was more like deep dish, and then eventually morphed into what we know of as typical pizza today. All of which happened in the US.

    “My heritage” doesnt really work as an argument for this Italian guy…

    • 0xDREADBEEF@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      Tomatoes are from America/the new world. Pizza is as much american as it is italian because it’s american ingredients

    • neo2478@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      2 days ago

      This comment is a great example Poe’s law. Can’t tell if you are trolling or just unintentionally wrong.