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[–] [email protected] 140 points 9 months ago (8 children)

It's kinda crazy that it took the combined culinary efforts of at least 4 nations to create something genius that would piss off all of those nations.

Also, pineapple on pizza is fucking delicious, and I will fight over that personal opinion being as valid as it sucking :)

[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Pepperoni, bacon, pineapple, and jalapeño. The ultimate combination of sweet, spicy, salty, and savory.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You have been awarded the key to the city of Halifax.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Drizzle a little mango sauce on top, and I'm sold.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Mango makes way more sense than pineapple for adding sweetness

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Replace the bacon with ham slices and you've got my favourite pizza

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

This minus the pepperoni is my favorite pizza

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Word, though I have to go very light on the peppers nowadays lol

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In the states they never add Jalapenos because of all the WASPS who say things like "this food has too much flavor" so I thought I hated Hawaiian pizza, def will try with Jalapeno.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have lived in several states and I feel like jalapenos are a very common pizza topping in all of them. I have mostly lived in areas with large Hispanic populations though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

You can get jalapeños in Maine it doesn’t get more WASPy than there.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Whats even crazier is the ethnobotanical path to GET those ingredients together.

Tomatoes had to be brought from south america. Bred to grow at lower altitudes. Peasants had to be persuaded to eat them (they were formally animal feed because they were from the nightshade family and peasants didn't trust the fruit not to be poisonous since the leaves are) and then enough time (100 years) had to pass for them to develop cuisine around them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

In Greece, eating feta cheese with watermelon(or melon) is somewhat common. You combine the sweetness of the watermelon with the saltiness of feta. And both things are cold.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In Italy, prosciutto with melon is pretty common. Sweet and savory as a combination is pretty common. See also: sharp cheddar on apple pie.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Yup, people who object to Hawaiian Pizza for any reason other than "it's not for me" don't really understand food.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Sharp cheddar cuts up my mouth something fierce.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That's common in California, too. Watermelon, feta and a little bit of lime juice is a frequent summer salad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yup, and it's yummy as hell.

Here in the south, and maybe elsewhere, we sometimes add a nice hunk of extra sharp cheddar on top of our apple pie for the same reason. Heck, any number of fruit plates will be served with cheeses, and vice versa.

Once you get into the sweet, salt, fat, acid combo, it really doesn't matter what you use to get them.

To quote a great American show, "pork chops and applesauce". "Hawaiian" pizza is just a different version of the same basic idea

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Similar to a fruit bowl with cottage cheese.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pizza is a very fatty, often greasy food, and acidic taste balances out greasiness in the mouth

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Good thing tomatoes are acidic then

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Not American tomatoes, at least, not in tomato sauce form; they put a tight sugary lid on that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pineapple, Canadian bacon, pepperoni, red onion, and balsamic drizzle. My recent stroke of genius from the local unlimited topping pizza place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Try red bell pepper with balsamic. I love the combination.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

It really depends on the quality of the pineapple to me. Sometimes it is dry and it sucks. Sometimes it is kinda melted, which gives a sweet to the pizza without making the texture weird.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Agreed. It's amazing. I always spring for pineapple on pizza