One hundred pounds (equivalent to about PLN 500) must be paid for a Hawaiian pizza in one of the restaurants in Norwich, Great Britain. In this way, the chef wants to discourage customers from ordering this controversial dish with ham and pineapple.
– I hate pineapple on pizza – said Francis Woolf, co-owner of the Lupa Pizza restaurant, quoted by the British daily “Guardian”. Chef Quin Jianoran agreed with this opinion, adding: “I love pina colada (an alcoholic cocktail with the addition of pineapple juice and pulp – ed.), but pineapple on pizza? Never.” He admitted that he would rather put a strawberry on his pizza than a tropical fruit.
A controversial addition
According to research conducted by YouGov in 2017, 53 percent Britons admitted they liked pineapple on pizza, with more than four in 10 saying they couldn't tolerate it. Only 15 percent respondents who like pizza would forbid adding pineapple to it. At the same time, 84 percent inhabitants of the British Isles like pizza, 82 percent likes pineapple.
Perhaps surprisingly, pineapple only came fifth on the list of the most unsavory pizza toppings Brits would like to ban. The first three places are taken by: anchovies, olives and tuna.
Sam Panopoulos, who emigrated from Hawaii in the 1950s, is considered the creator of Hawaiian pizza. Greece down Canadaand there, together with his brothers, he ran several restaurants. He began adding pineapple to pizza shortly after Hawaii joined as the 50th state to join USA in 1959
The question of whether pineapple should be on pizza can be controversial. President Iceland Gudni Johannesson, who told students in a 2017 meeting that he was “fundamentally opposed” to adding pineapple to pizza, later had to say he had no plans to ban it.
World Pizza Day
World Pizza Day is celebrated on Friday. The holiday established in Italy in 1984, falls on the feast of Saint Anthony the Abbot, the patron saint of pizza bakers – pizzaioli.
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