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Italians have a pride in their cooking that other nations can’t match. Good for him to stand up for it. He can probably find someone more genuine Italian to work for.
I like people who are willing to stand up for their principles even when there is a price to pay for it.
Odd hill to die on.
That the best kind!
To be fair cantaloupe and prosciutto is way better than pineapple on pizza has ever been (this is not opinion this is fact)
Crusades have been launched over pettier disagreements.
Opinion that bot you banned
He was just a fucking kid!
Look… The Poles put strawberry in pasta. I found the idea of pineapple on pizza weird when I heard of it… But then I tried it and I liked it. The flavors surprisingly worked.
Not to say I order it frequently. I am very much a meat-lover cheesy pizza type of guy. My normal pizzas are boring.
Sweet and salty go great together, as do fruit and pork. I’m convinced half the people who say they don’t like pineapple on pizza have just never tried it.
I remember thinking it would be gross as a kid but then tried a slice when a friend’s family ordered one and really enjoying it. Told my dad I wanted it next time we ordered pizza and he refused and made me buy my own because “nobody wants that garbage and it’ll get thrown away”. Ate some that night then went to bed, went to eat the next day and he’d eaten every leftover slice overnight. From that day on, he only ordered Hawaiian and I got completely burnt out for years.
Plum stuffed veal is a thing!
Pineapple on pizza works very well.
Now, banana on pizza, I will shiv a motherfucker committing such a crime. There are standards, dude.
Pfft https://thenordicdish.com/swedish-banana-curry-pizza/ just add some curry and chill
I hate that I am tempted, and I will die denying my urges on principle.
Hahaha I’d try it once, but I have a pretty strong dislike of banana in general so I doubt I’d enjoy it
In WWII the Italians were horrified when the Germans would put jelly on italian cured meats. But like jam is literally a side on many charcuterie boards. Pork goes well with fruit.
Wow. He liked it that much? Variety is the spice of life, my guy, you should have told him that. I got favorite foods, too. But even then I need to take a break from them.
My favorite book to read to my kids is called “every night is pizza night” where the main character discovers that even though pizza will always be her favorite, there’s tons of other delicious things to try and there’s more than one best food.
My father was a man of extremes, 0 or 100 with little in between.
And you? What about you? Are you of extremes?
No, while I enjoy some extreme things I am a firm believer in moderation.
I respect that you found your own path. I didn’t turn out as my father either. I’m very much like my mother though. Minus the hard working nature and sound morals.
This underlines my biggest issue with italian cuisine. There are so many chefs that leave no room for innovation or updates to a traditional recipies. I’ll put cream in my carbonara and pineapple on my pizza because I like the taste of it. And those preferences should be more important than the old traditions when it comes to making foods I want to enjoy.
There is no such thing as a ‘traditional’ recipe. It was what those individuals made and with what resources they had.
It’s all good, just as long as you don’t break your spaghetti before putting it in the pot…
And Italy also invented fascism, so I’m not sure I’ll follow their judgement on pineapples…
Personally, I wouldn’t care what a customer ordered on their pizza, they could order the worst possible combination of flavours, and I’d happily make it for them, what’s the big deal? It wouldn’t hurt me, or anyone else.
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Funny as this is, the guy is def both stupid and an asshole
I hope he also refuses to put tomatoes on pizza, because they’re a new world plant and non-native to Europe and Italy. What a fart sniffing jackhole.
Tomatoes are fruit! D-:
So are eggplants, but they’re used as vegetables in a culinary context.
I just shove them up my girlfriends muff, we have a wide assortment of fruits and vegetables for this purpose, and none of us have the faintest idea about botanical taxonomy.
Wait until Italians and Pseudo-Italian Americans find out about Durian pizza. They’ll be begging for pineapple.
Critics and first-time smellers often describe the odor as resembling sewage, rotten eggs, raw onions, garlic, old gym socks, or hot garbage. Fans, however, may perceive subtle sweet or floral undertones.
It’s also banned from hotels and public transport where it grows natively.
It’s called the King of Fruits for a reason.
Very high in micronutrients and calories. Taste really good.
My own perception of the durian’s aroma is of a toddler’s full diaper mixed with a splash of kerosene. I’m the type who tries almost anything once, and so I tasted durian when it was offered to me, and it has a wonderful, complex flavor.
For those who are more squeamish, there’s always jackfruit.
I just don’t understand this and am beginning to wonder if it’s one of those “can smell asparagus in pee” sort of phenomena, because while clearly an unpleasant smell, I have never got the extreme comparisons to sewage and shit. It’s not a nice smell but it’s just nowhere near as disgusting to me as people make it out to be.
I find jackfruit to be always disappointing. I don’t know what I’m expecting, but I want more from it.
I’ve had it when its plain and meh, and I’ve had a chef marinade it and batter/bread it like is crisoy chicken and it was amazing
Damn, I bet that smells feisty.
Durian is a war crime in a food fight. It’s effective as both a melee and chemical weapon.
I seriously don’t get it. I traveled all over SE Asia and sure, Durian doesn’t exactly smell like roses, but it’s not THAT bad. Also it tastes like weird fruit bubblegum.
what is this unholy abomination. please tell me this isn’t real.
It’s a fruit. The peel smells “not super”, but the fruit itself is a very complex interesting flavor that you can get hooked on.
It’s malaysian. Those guys love their durian.
Even the branding, most malaysian (filo?) thing ever.
I would love to try this! Durian might actually fit nicely
I’d go for durian, gorgonzola and fresh basil.
This miscarriage of justice should go all the way to the ECHR.
The European Culinary Heresy Revisionists?
NOBODY expects the European Culinary Heresy Revisionists!
Pizza is not really Italian. A lot of cultures have invented flatbread that you top with stuff before baking. It just happens that the Italian version of that got spread around widely. And then other cultures added their own flairs, one of which is pineapple, usually connected with a salty pork product like ham or Canadian bacon.
Here in California, that’s called Hawaiian style pizza, and I didn’t get it, myself, until I tried it and found it’s a pairing that works, usually with extra mozzarella cheese.
I don’t know that it’s actually Hawaiian even in style, though my wife’s family used to like going to Hawaiian-style fast food, which involves a lot of Spam (the Hormell kind), so there… may be a connection?
My parents’ generation, in the 1970s way dug anchovies on pizza which I found way too salty. I didn’t get it then, but I don’t see much in the way of anchovies on pizza now. So collective tastes may change with time.
Anchovies are spectacular sources of umami. I use them in tomato sauces, among other things. You don’t taste the fish at all, you just get a nice round salty flavor out of them, and they just dissolve in the sauce.
My parents’ generation, in the 1970s way dug anchovies on pizza which I found way too salty. I didn’t get it then, but I don’t see much in the way of anchovies on pizza now. So collective tastes may change with time.
That makes me kinda sad. I’m definitely nowhere near that generation but I love anchovies on pizza, and people not ordering anchovies on pizza just makes it harder to find places that still offer anchovies. I think it’s the best pizza topping. Although I also don’t mind Hawaiian style pizza separately either.
Pizza is not really Italian.
It is Italian, but it’s not exclusively Italian. Turkish lahmacun (thin base, with a meaty sauce, is a good approximation of the Ur-Pizza, as are various Levantine flatbreads. One of my favorites is manaqish ma’a za’atar, which is a thin pizza-like base topped with olive oil and thyme.
Ur-pizzas would be from Ur, not the Levant.
Toasted flatbread topped with olive oil and thyme sounds delightful!
I don’t know that it’s actually Hawaiian even in style
It’s not–Hawaiian pizza was invented in Canada IIRC.
It’s weird. I’m at an age where I wouldn’t mind to try out anchovies on pizza, but it’s become so out-of-style that either pizza places don’t carry it any more, or people are so repulsed by it that it’s hard to order with others sharing.
Meanwhile, I’ve always loved pineapple on pizza, and that one seemed to have stuck around as a topping longer.
Anchovies work. Try with just tomato sauce and cheese, onions and olives. It’s a complex, mature type of taste. Maybe sun dried tomatoes. But it depends a lot on who’s cooking it if you know what I mean.
You know how kids all go crazy about candy? That’s because of how their taste buds work when they’re kids. When you get older, these funky tastes get more like candy to us. Very rich flavors.
Anchovies on pizza are fantastic, especially in some Italian thin crust, say with black olives, onions, capers, artichoke…
The problem is that people use them as an ingredient, where they should be used as a seasoning, sparingly.
Its just a job. You dont have to fuck the pineapples, just work with them.
I take two giant pineapple rings and sandwich a piece of pizza in between and eat it like a juicy sandwich.
Fucking pineapples is both challenging and painful. I’d rather have it on a pizza. Only just, though.
That’s only with fresh pineapple though. If they’re from a can they have conveniently placed holes
I understand that guy perfectly.
The ruling also detailed an incident at work in April this year where Tamburella fractured bones in his right hand when he struck a metal hand rail.
Forget the pineapple - dude has anger issues and shouldn’t be running a kitchen.
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