I’ve visited Italy and you know what I learned?
The Italians don’t know what the fuck to do with pizza. They’re straight up bad at it.
Look, I know people have a lot of opinions when it comes to pizza. When you ask people “what makes the perfect pizza”, the answer you get may differ vastly if you ask someone from Chicago, or from New York, or perhaps Detroit. But I’ll tell you what, any American establishment that makes good pizza, makes it better than they do in Rome (to be fair my only actual experience with Italian pizza is from Naples, but I was seriously underwhelmed).
In short, don’t be fooled into thinking pizza is Italian food, it’s not. Pizza is more American than apple pie.
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.
If you make pizza for a living, a fine occupation in itself, I’m not really sure that makes you a Chef though.
This miscarriage of justice should go all the way to the ECHR.
The European Culinary Heresy Revisionists?
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.
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.
I understand that guy perfectly.
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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 called the King of Fruits for a reason.
Very high in micronutrients and calories. Taste really good.
It’s also banned from hotels and public transport where it grows natively.
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 would love to try this! Durian might actually fit nicely
I’d go for durian, gorgonzola and fresh basil.
what is this unholy abomination. please tell me this isn’t real.
It’s malaysian. Those guys love their durian.
Even the branding, most malaysian (filo?) thing ever.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Then don’t work for the fucking restaurant that sells pineapples on pizza.
None of this is that difficult.
The LinkedIn profile states he now works at another Brisbane restaurant. A BBC check has found that pineapple is not on its menu.
Based
Skimming the article, it seems this chap had a few other issues but this was the headline grabbing detail.
