AAAAND it is inspired by north American Chinese food.
Inspired in part by his experience preparing Chinese dishes which commonly mix sweet and savory flavours,
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 :)
Pepperoni, bacon, pineapple, and jalapeño. The ultimate combination of sweet, spicy, salty, and savory.
Replace the bacon with ham slices and you’ve got my favourite pizza
Word, though I have to go very light on the peppers nowadays lol
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.
AAAAND it is inspired by his experience cooking Chinese food.
Hey, I’m with you. I think it’s awful and that the people who enjoy it should be taken out back and shot.
But I just don’t have the energy to take my wife out back and shoot her.
Imagine getting so worked up over what makes someone else happy.
Do you think I really plan to shoot my wife for liking pineapple on her pizza?
A fruit native to Brazil. We call it “pizza hawaii” in the Netherlands and it’s tasty. Ananas, ham and cheese, perfection I say, pizza puritans be damned.
I’m not too sure if pineapples are native from the lands currently controlled by Brazil, Paraguay, or both. The Amerindians farmed them quite a bit, so they spread even to to a chunk of North America; and the native range of a relative hints me that the genus originated further west.
That’s just a guess though - the point is that nobody knows for sure.
I feel one day people will learn to appreciate Brazilian pizza. We’re not in that time yet though.
I personally cannot stand pineapple on my pizza (despite wanting to like it). And really do not care what other people put on their food.
pineapples are farmed a lot in Hawaii, though.
The idea reminds me Roman (as in the city, not the empire) pizza al taglio.
I wonder how they’re baking the dough. A 100m large oven? Roll in, roll out? Multiple separated chunks? Baking it rolled, then unrolling it?
A conveyor would make the most sense.
It gets even messier.
Modern tomato sauce used in pizza is a variation of the sauce in southern Italy. People were cultivating tomatoes there after they were introduced by Spain, that controlled both that region and the North American lands formerly controlled by the Aztec city-States (nowadays by Mexico).
Where are tomatoes from? South America. Yup. The lands are today Peru’s and/or Ecuador’s. Likely domesticated way before Cuzco/Inca expanded over the region. In the meantime, the pineapples being put over the pizza are from another region, the Paraná basin (currently controlled by Brazil and Paraguay).
Then you got the dough. Wheat was domesticated somewhere in the Fertile Crescent; I think that the lands currently controlled by Iraq should be a safe bet. In special, Eastern Rome (aka Byzantium) used to control Naples too, spreading πίτα/pita (a type of flat bread) again into the region. (I say “again” because the Aeneid already talks about pizza, in Republican times.)
Cows (for the cheese) were domesticated a bit further to the west, probably what’s today controlled by Syria… well, at least one of the times, because you can almost hear haunting zebu moos from what’s controlled now by Pakistan. (I believe that most domestic breeds should be a cross between both, with varied amounts of zebu x taurus. And perhaps a third stock from the Maghreb.)
The Germans seem to think they invented it. Order it in Sweden, and it’ll come with bananas.
Don’t forget the curry. The bananas always must come with curry, but the cardamom goes in the pastries.
Finally
That being said, I do enjoy it.
This is why I can never hate on hawaiian pizza. It is a true-born Canadian pizza, birthed from these frozen wastes.
And then the Hawaiians replaced the ham with spam.
Honesty that’d probably be better. Ham is so bland on pizza; it can’t compete with the sauce. I always do pineapple and pepperoni. The spice from the pepperoni cuts through the sweetness really nicely.
Add some jalaps to that and you have my favorite pizza.
Whats a Canadian from Greece? Was the guy Greek living in Canada? Doesn’t that just make him Greek? Or was it a person born in Canada with Greek ancestry? That would not make him from Greece.
I go to Italy often just to eat real Italian food. I understand that for Italians, the hawainana pizza is an aberration, like many other things if not cooked as they traditionally do. And I respect it, because it’s a key part of their culture. Still, I have a right to eat and like whatever I want, so I also expect respect on that sense. Some people will do this and some others won’t. I think it’s a personal choice to decide respecting others opinions.
They don’t have to serve you what you want if it’s not on the menu, they can try to accommodate if they really want but that’s about it.
But if you don’t have the ingredients they cannot really do that can they.
I get that shit ALL the time. I have 34 wing flavours, a number of them address the sweet n savoury/sour thing I personally detest. I don’t carry the disgusting bulk sweet n sour sugar sauce common to this region and continually get people staring at the 34 flavours and and ask “do you have honey mustard or sweet n sour”? No. I don’t. That’s not what I’m doing here, if I had that, it would be listed. Literally every other place has that, I’m fucking trying to impart some taste to the region no matter how miniscule.
