Is pineapple acceptable on pizza?

Is pineapple acceptable on pizza?

  • Yes - Love it

    Votes: 193 61.1%
  • It's tolerable

    Votes: 60 19.0%
  • No - It's a crime against pizza

    Votes: 58 18.4%
  • Other

    Votes: 5 1.6%

  • Total voters
    316
My favourite is ordering a pepperoni pizza with extra pineapple. Sort of like a better Hawaiian pizza.
Pineapple & pepperoni is great. By itself, pepperoni is just too one dimensional.
 
We prefer a variety of pizza's so if we order, we normally order a few different small ones. Hawaiian is always part of the order.
 
Yeah, it's great. But...

All too often you find that the pizza maker is too ignorant to first properly fry the pineapple pieces. Before putting them on the pizza, before it's baked. When you cook them first, it makes a huge difference. The difference between a lovely pizza, and a nauseating, soggy mess.

You get the same thing with mushrooms. Raw mushrooms on a pizza before baking also sucks, comparatively.

Edit: And in reply to some answers here. It's important enough to debate. Because it's such a simple thing, and it makes such an improvement when done right. And... People love pizza. Anything with such an emotional connection is important enough to debate. For the people interested.
 
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New question: Are pizzas without pineapple acceptable?
 
Of course pineapple is good on pizza. Only proper Italians will protest, and rightfully so, but c'mon, a Hawaiian pizza is delicious.
I'm pretty sure if they could, they would have put pineapple on pizza. When you're poor and hungry, you eat what is available. (a rough guess says pineapple was only seen in Europe somewhere after the 1500s)
Founded around 600 B.C. as a Greek settlement, Naples in the 1700s and early 1800s was a thriving waterfront city. Technically an independent kingdom, it was notorious for its throngs of working poor, or lazzaroni. “The closer you got to the bay, the denser their population and much of their living was done outdoors, sometimes in homes that were little more than a room,” says Carol Helstosky, author of Pizza: A Global History and associate professor of history at the University of Denver.

These Neapolitans required inexpensive food that could be consumed quickly. Pizza—flatbreads with various toppings, eaten for any meal and sold by street vendors or informal restaurants—met this need. “Judgmental Italian authors often called their eating habits ‘disgusting,’” Helstosky notes. These early pizzas consumed by Naples’ poor featured the tasty garnishes beloved today, such as tomatoes, cheese, oil, anchovies and garlic.
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(Ignoring for a second the part about the ancient egyptians also having a pizza-like dish)

pineapple is a fruit, would you put strawberries or blueberries on a Pizza, nope.

I mean you could make a sweet pizza with Chocolates and candy and biscuits and whatever sweet things you have,

but otherwise, nope, does not sound nice at all to me, and few times Ive had it tastes like sh*t.
Tomato is a fruit.

I don't mind it as a topping but normally I don't order or make it for myself.
 
Of course pineapple is good on pizza. Only proper Italians will protest, and rightfully so, but c'mon, a Hawaiian pizza is delicious.
Italians love arguing. They adore it. It's rude to not argue back. Even if you agree to an extent, then you should at least try to agree in a somewhat combative way.
 
The acidity brightens flavour. What is not to like? Even the Italians like it.
 
Yeah, it's great. But...

All too often you find that the pizza maker is too ignorant to first properly fry the pineapple pieces. Before putting them on the pizza, before it's baked. When you cook them first, it makes a huge difference. The difference between a lovely pizza, and a nauseating, soggy mess.

You get the same thing with mushrooms. Raw mushrooms on a pizza before baking also sucks, comparatively.

Edit: And in reply to some answers here. It's important enough to debate. Because it's such a simple thing, and it makes such an improvement when done right. And... People love pizza. Anything with such an emotional connection is important enough to debate. For the people interested.
You might be confused. I don't think they fry pineapple first.
I think its rather the difference between tinned pineapples and fresh pineapples. Tinned pineapples are "cooked" and soggy
 
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