Pepperoni, bacon, pineapple, and jalapeño. The ultimate combination of sweet, spicy, salty, and savory.
TIL a Canadian from Greece took an American version of an Italian dish and added tropical fruit to it and called it a Hawaiian pizza.
3 years ago by Flying Squid to c/til
CannedTuna 55 points 3 years ago
grabyourmotherskeys 11 points 3 years ago
You have been awarded the key to the city of Halifax.
ILikeBoobies 3 points 3 years ago
Mango makes way more sense than pineapple for adding sweetness
southsamurai 2 points 3 years ago
Word, though I have to go very light on the peppers nowadays lol
EvilHankVenture 5 points 3 years ago
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.
Bumblebb 15 points 3 years 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.
dylanmorgan 8 points 3 years ago
In Italy, prosciutto with melon is pretty common. Sweet and savory as a combination is pretty common. See also: sharp cheddar on apple pie.
grabyourmotherskeys 7 points 3 years ago
Yup, people who object to Hawaiian Pizza for any reason other than "it's not for me" don't really understand food.
SatansMaggotyCumFart 2 points 3 years ago
Sharp cheddar cuts up my mouth something fierce.
cheesymoonshadow 1 point 3 years ago
Similar to a fruit bowl with cottage cheese.
southsamurai 1 point 3 years 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
ILikeBoobies 5 points 3 years ago
Good thing tomatoes are acidic then
masterspace 3 points 3 years ago
Not American tomatoes, at least, not in tomato sauce form; they put a tight sugary lid on that.
platypus_plumba 4 points 3 years 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.
RampantParanoia2365 4 points 3 years ago
Pineapple, Canadian bacon, pepperoni, red onion, and balsamic drizzle. My recent stroke of genius from the local unlimited topping pizza place.
Cold_Brew_Enema 3 points 3 years ago
Agreed. It's amazing. I always spring for pineapple on pizza
ArcaneSlime 3 points 3 years ago
Ahhh they're fucking up. Gotta dice the pines and spread em out a bit more at least, but also ham is the worst meat choice for pine, go chicken or (best) pep, and I highly suggest some jalaps.
autokludge 2 points 3 years ago
The Hawaiian pizza becomes the ham-steak pizza.
humorlessrepost 42 points 3 years ago
And some countries put canned corn on pizza and call it “American style” because Americans love corn.
FlyingSquid 19 points 3 years ago
I was once in a Filipino grocery in L.A. and they had corn and cheese ice cream. I don't mean they had corn ice cream and they had cheese ice cream, I mean they had an ice cream flavor called "corn and cheese."
cheesymoonshadow 6 points 3 years ago
Filipino here, grew up with the stuff and never realized how weird it could be perceived as until now. It's more like a cheesy vanilla flavor with bits of corn.
We also have a creamy vanilla sort of popsicle with red mung beans in it that I suspect we got from the Chinese.
Duranie 9 points 3 years ago
"cheesy vanilla flavor with bits of corn"
That is seriously not helping lol. I will concede though that it could be one of those things better tasting than you would imagine. Like the first time I tried the off the cob version of elote (Mexican Street corn.) A cup of hot corn with mayo, cheese, and chili powder? I thought it sounded bizarre at the time but holy shit - I ate the hell out of it and wanted more lol.
cheesymoonshadow 2 points 3 years ago
Combining different tastes and textures is a huge thing in Filipino cuisine. In the ice cream, the sweetness of the ice cream and corn is complemented (and arguably enhanced) by the saltiness of the cheese. The corn also provides a little crunch. I think it's that same combo in elote that makes it so good.
One of my favorite snacks from my childhood that I still enjoy to this day is green mango with bagoong (fermented shrimp paste). The green mango is crunchy and sour while the bagoong is salty with a good dose of umami.
cheesymoonshadow 1 point 3 years ago
By vanilla I just mean like the basic white soft-serve ice cream.
BakerBagel 0 points 3 years ago
I put a little vanilla in my corn pudding for holidays. I could also throw cheese in there if i was so inclined.
ArcaneSlime 1 point 3 years ago
Them, producing insane quantities of 1911s in huts in the jungle with stolen electricity: "Kahiya"
Potatos_are_not_friends 26 points 3 years ago
In Japan, there's Vermont curry, which has a maple-syrup-y taste.
Vermont doesn't have a state curry.
rustydomino 7 points 3 years ago
Yup. You can get it in the USA at Asian grocery stores, and even in some American stores located in areas with large Asian populations. And it’s fucking delicious.
aubertlone 9 points 3 years ago
Just fyi, it tastes nothing like maple syrup.
I felt the same way when I heard about it. Made it one night, turns out it is just a very slightly sweeter curry than the normal katsu curry base.
Potatos_are_not_friends 2 points 3 years ago
I'm with you. I grew up eating spicy curry so anything different from that is a weird
baseless_discourse 21 points 3 years ago
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,
Can_you_change_your_username 17 points 3 years ago
And then the Hawaiians replaced the ham with spam.
Neato 7 points 3 years ago
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.
ArcaneSlime 2 points 3 years ago
Add some jalaps to that and you have my favorite pizza.
owenfromcanada 2 points 3 years ago
Nah, swap the ham for some bacon. It can stand up to the sauce and the pineapple. And still technically ham.
sachamato 13 points 3 years ago
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.
Tristaniopsis 10 points 3 years ago
Traditional schmaditional. They never had tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, corn or a bunch of other things until Meso-America was ransacked.
masterspace 4 points 3 years ago
Discovering that tomatoes were new world fruit really torpedoed any chance of me respecting Italian traditions
Tristaniopsis 3 points 3 years ago
Well… a tradition’s gotta start sometime.
Look at that fucking Elf on the Fucking Shelf shit. It’s marketing tag on the box is (or was) “a tradition”.
Yeah. A tradition for ONE fucked up family who then cashed in HARD and forced their sick gaslighting on the gullible public. /rant
sachamato 1 point 2 years ago
I also discovered a while ago the amazing arrival of pinneaples to Europe, back then they were so rare and expensive that there were companies providing rental services for pinneaples. Rich people would host a pinneaples party, to basically show it, and then to be returned to the company that rented it. Crazy pinneaple times indeed!
supercriticalcheese 2 points 3 years ago
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.
Sagifurius 2 points 3 years ago
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.
Guntrigger 2 points 3 years ago
I enjoy that this rant started out like we should all know that you have a wing restaurant.
Pooptimist 2 points 3 years ago
They make pizza dulce with Nutella, so I can get my pizza with pineapple
FlyingSquid 34 points 3 years ago
He was born in Greece and became a Canadian citizen. That made him a Canadian from Greece.
BarrierWithAshes 12 points 3 years ago
This is why I can never hate on hawaiian pizza. It is a true-born Canadian pizza, birthed from these frozen wastes.
spittingimage 11 points 3 years ago
Just think, if you open your mind and let other cultures be your inspiration, you too could invent something as reviled and divisive as Hawaiian pizza.
Sagifurius 8 points 3 years ago
The Germans seem to think they invented it. Order it in Sweden, and it'll come with bananas.
Guntrigger 3 points 3 years ago
Don't forget the curry. The bananas always must come with curry, but the cardamom goes in the pastries.
Retrograde 2 points 3 years ago
nausea intensifies
kindenough 8 points 3 years ago
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 puritan snobs be damned.
nokturne213 4 points 3 years ago
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.
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mateomaui 1 point 3 years ago
Nowadays the main pineapple fields on Maui are used to make liquor
BarrierWithAshes 2 points 3 years ago
I feel one day people will learn to appreciate Brazilian pizza. We're not in that time yet though.
FlyingSquid 5 points 3 years ago
THAT'S NOT A REAL PIZZA!
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Chickenstalker 2 points 3 years ago
Pizza is American. They perfected it and deserves the full credit. Italians can cry with their hands.
RegalPotoo 16 points 3 years ago
Describing American pizza and Italian pizza as being the same thing is imperialism
FlyingSquid -6 points 3 years ago
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.
nokturne213 4 points 3 years ago
Imagine getting so worked up over what makes someone else happy.
FlyingSquid 4 points 3 years ago
Do you think I really plan to shoot my wife for liking pineapple on her pizza?
petrol_sniff_king 2 points 3 years ago
I thought it was funny. :p
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satan_6661 -8 points 3 years ago
I'm glad everything about this man is written in the past tense. One of the worst creations ever.
Guntrigger 3 points 3 years ago
One of the worst creations ever.
Are you talking about the sadly deceased genius, or the globally popular creation of his?
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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 :)
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