I will never understand why pineapple on pizza is the one salty/sweet combo most people just can’t abide.
To be fair, I don’t like basically any salty sweet combo. You can keep your salted caramel and waffles with chicken!
Oh…well I am sorry for you, then. And I will.
No need to feel sorry! I like both sweet and savory, just not at the same time 👍
Peanut M&M’s?
Don’t like them either.
I grew up in a household where I was taught when cooking salty sweet dishes, you should add just enough sugar to the dish so that it tastes different but you can’t tell why. Otherwise you’ve added too much sugar.
You can definitely taste the sweet in Pineapple pizza…
In some savory dishes like tomato sauce for example you add a little bit of sugar to reduce bitterness and just make the flavors more balanced. Also, most anything tastes better if you add just a little bit of salt in at some point of the cooking process.
Doesn’t mean I’m going to sprinkle sea salt on top of my pecan pie though…
Yeah there are banana curry and kebab meat with bearnaise sauce, the two other Swedish pizza specials, why are nobody talking about them?
What? We don’t do kebab with bearnaise! It is its own yoghurt and mayo based sauce, aka kebabsås.
Source: me in Växjö and Malmö 1990s so maybe it was bernais or maybe it wasn’t :-)
Gross
We tend not to mention Swedish pizzas in polite company.
Especially since the origin of pizza is just throw the cheapest left overs on some bread when your broke. taste played a very minor role with the reason it came into existence. So why privileged assholes have to gatekeep a peasant’s solution against starvation over preferential taste is just cringeworthy classism at best.
Bruh, I think you’re thinking too deep into this. Some people don’t like the flavor profile of pineapple. It likely started as a teasing joke to their friends when they were young and didn’t know comedy:
“Eeeewwww pineapple on pizza?! Gross! 😂”
And then the joke just kinda blew up from there because enough people agreed on it.
Then you become an adult and realize people just genuinely like different things. I hate pineapple in general, so I don’t get it on my pizza. My husband loves Hawaiian pizza.
I love anchovies, and he can’t stand them. He says the “juice” affects the rest of the pizza even when I only get it on my half.
We order 2 different pizzas and everyone is happy.
I don’t think either of us (or anyone who still pretends to be shocked that pineapple on pizza is a thing) is “gatekeeping pizza” or shaming poor people from tryna eat whatever they have. It is legit on the same level as. “OMG you use APPLE?!?!? I COULD NEVER!”.
It’s just harmless teasing.
You can speak for your experience with pizza snobs, I’ll speak on mine.
The buzz around it grew when I was seeing a lot of pizza party’s which always ended up with 3 flavours being brought. Margherita, Pepperoni and Hawaiian. So I’ve always associated the movement being some secret groups’ lifeprotip to order Hawaiian do they can eat a bunch of pizza and it’s divisive. If your ordering for yourself go nuts. If your ordering for a group, there are plenty of more on-averagr enjoyable options
I dislike pineapple on pizza because most places always do such an awful job. You either get pineapple chunks that are still partially frozen and waterlogs the pie, or you get desiccated husks of fiber. Any salty/sweet combo advantage is totally lost.
Have you considered trying it from a good pizza place?
The hunt is constant. See my other response.
Uh if the pineapple is still partially frozen, that entire pizza is undercooked
Dude you hang out at the wrong places.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ My roommate and I order from a new-to-us pizza joint every other month or so and he frequently orders a pie with pineapple. I can count on one hand the number of places that actually had a delicious pie with pineapple.
Maybe my standards are too high, but you knights of pineapple can enjoy whatever you want.
Do you happen to live in Italy? That might explain things.
I’ve literally never had that problem.
I’m not eating anything invented by those Canadians
If you ever bought eggs in an egg carton or cooked with canola oil you’ve been a closet Canadian all along. Ok you may continue with the pearl clutching now
Meanwhile you miss out on the glory that is Poutine, most Maple desserts, Tortiere, Butter Tarts, Back Bacon (AKA Canadian Bacon), California Rolls (yes I know, but they are Canadian actually), Nanaimo Bars, Caesars,PEANUT BUTTER (No, it wasn’t George Washington Carver, he made a type of peanut butter after it was already invented), Chinese Buffets, and Coffee Crisps.
He was a Greek immigrant that had lived in Canada for only around 8 years at that point though.
I know it’s a joke, but just let people enjoy things, you know?
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Sweet with salty is hardly an anomaly in the culinary world. Salted caramel anyone? Ham glazed with honey anyone? Basalmic glaze over tomatoes anyone?
I’ve never understood why people get so worked up over this combo. It’s totally rational and, for many, subjectively delicious (which is, like you say, all that matters).
No one freaks out when people order food with cilantro even though it literally tastes like soap to some people. They just say “cilantro is not for me, tastes like soap” and get back to their burger or whatever.
They even have a flavor in most restaraunts called sweet and salty which is just sugary syrup added to whatever savoury sauce. So it’s not like it’s an under represented flavour either. Like I get some people have a simple palette that can only handle one flavor at a time. Maybe they can learn to accept all of the rest of us who like combining flavors.
I just think pineapple tastes like ass on or off pizza ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The only reason people get worked up over pineapple on pizza is because there are extremely few places that do it correctly. Most just open a can of frozen chunked pineapples, plop it on and hope for the best. It makes the dish disgusting. Also doesn’t help that certain areas of the world prepare the rest of the pie in a completely different manner resulting in very different flavor and texture experiences. A Chicago style with pineapple would be very different from new york style with pineapple.
I’ve also had properly made pineapple pizza before and subjectively speaking, it was just ok at best. Not anything to rave about or get up in arms about, honestly pineapple has more than just sweet in it’s flavor so it still tastes off and doesn’t vibe well with the rest of the ingredients like your other examples do. Only a select few people will like it. Probably the same reason most fruits aren’t used with pizza like strawberries or cantaloupe.
Combine both those things together though and you get a recipe for a controversial dish.
Might be a regional thing but where I grew up, every place made it, if you ordered for a large group you always included one “hawaiian”, and it would be gone while other pizza was left.
There are strong feelings about it but it’s like anchovies. A preference.
The only reason…
No. No it isn’t.
Gifts from weird preferences is the best ❤️
I love pineapple on pizza.
Eating crust first is a war crime.
Eating crust first is a war crime.
To me it’s like eating your least favorite candy in a mixed bag first - you’re left with the best part last. You have to leave just a bit of it so you can still grab it.
E: Also, if you eat all the crusts last they usually go dry and hard instead of nice and warm when you eat them first or as you go along. Depends on whether the dough is good really.
If you are just force feeding yourself the crust, maybe not eating the crust would be a better choice since it is just carbs at that point.
I agree, if you are. Never said anything about force feeding though.
A good dough is just good bread, but anyone who has ever eaten bread will know it’ll dry and get hard if it sits out in the open for long enough. And even then, it can make for good breadsticks for sauce or soup or whatever if it’s a good dough. Like I said, it all boils down to how good the dough/crust is. I don’t really eat shitty pizza with shitty dough though so I don’t really have the problem of “force feeding” the crusts. The dough, along with the tomato sauce is one of the most important parts of a good pizza IMO.
If your pizza is worth eating, the crust is the best part. Crispy bits of Parmesan, the slight flamed brownness underneath, the warm, soft inside.
Cools faster.
You take a bite of the crust because it’s one of those cheese crusts and it tastes like shit if you don’t eat it alongside the pizza itself.
My SO puts ketchup on pizza
… There’s fucking tomato sauce not even a 16th of an inch below the ketchup. WTF is wrong with them?
For my metric bros, ¹/16" is equivalent to 1 ⁴⁷/80 mm
1^47 is still just 1
1 and 47 80ths 1 ⁴⁷/80 not 1⁴⁷. Maybe formatting is inconsistent across Lemmy viewing methods though.
Try 1 ⁴⅞₀ᵗʰˢ maybe?
Yes, but ketchup and tomatoe sauce taste different
tomato sauce is not ketchup.
I do too. On some kinds of pizza it tastes good. Especially on home made pizza. Hot sauce a well. Really meaty pizza? Tatar sauce baby!
Just try it you conservative under rock dwellers.
kill her
!for legal reasons, this is a joke!<
Yep, Agree I also like pretty wierd shit
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Back or front, I’ve heard of… But eating a pizza from the side!? Lol
Btw pineapple pizza is the best. Tomato juice also rocks. Fight me. Haha
Tell that to any Italian and you’ll get in a fight, alright.
Food purists aren’t worth engaging in anyways.
Oh no, some Italians are upset about random people enjoying things, sounds like they need to get over themselves.
If anyone tells me what food I am allowed to like, they can suck my dick.
Based on what I’ve heard on the Internet, Italians will straight murder you for eating anything other that a meal directly cooked by their grandmother because it’s ineffably wrong, and not endowed by the spirit of Italy.
If course, actual Italians I’ve known are normal people who typically don’t care what you eat.
Roma pizza is square, what if you get a slice with no crust?
That’s different because they’re is no right answer
If they did they’d be a classist bigot not worth fighting. pizza is peasant food invented not for taste but to not starve. If you’re going to so low to gatekeep fight someone for that, that is definitely on the wrong side of history.
People, ffs, live and let live
Especially since the origin of pizza is “let’s just use up what is left in the fridge cuz we’re broke”. it’s the elitist gate keeping asshole who deserves all the shame in this scenario
But did the Italians back then have fridges and pineapples?
Not all food that gets cooked on a pizza needs a fridge. But either way you’re skipping the point. it’s literally leftovers combined, with or without a fridge. Probably even more so without a fridge if food goes bad faster.
The point is it’s a peasant food made of literally anything because scarcity.
So in all fairness to to the benefit it provides there should be no rule that there has to be a pineapple or not.
It’s… Humor
And real life experiences with intolerable people is what humor can be built on. There is no rule on that. Stories can be based on reality.
Ok, what is the joke? I think the creator thinks that it’s funny to have an extreme reaction (murder) to a minor infraction (liking the wrong kind of food).
If you (like the creator) believe that the idea of “liking the wrong foods” will resonate with an audience as a social infraction. Well, ffs let people live their lives.
The premise for the joke is obnoxious.
I am pretty sure the woman in the comic is the self-insert of the creator and they think it is funny that people have an extreme reaction to the author’s minor infraction and that you should let people live their lives.
The joke is that eating pizza backwards is one step too far.
A bite of history:
It’s funny because literally no one cares.
I have never met a person (that wasn’t chronically online) in real life that cares about Pineapple Pizza, it’s a silly internet meme.
What? That joke/meme is way older than the internet. You should meet more people.
My entire life I have met hundreds of people that don’t mind pineapple pizza, I have been to dozens of school, work, and social functions where there was pineapple pizza, and nobody has ever complained. Literally decades of people eating it without complaining, or not eating it but also not complaining.
I never heard a single human being mention it until it became an internet meme, and the only people that have ever mentioned it IRL were chronically online individuals.
But sure it’s me not knowing enough people, what a fucking rude and condescending thing to say.
Oh, I’m sorry. I must have missed when they assigned your life to be the universal standard for all expirences. Guess if it never happend to you it doesn’t exist.
Talking about being fucking condescending.
More likely you surround yourself with petty people who complain about minor things, and chronically online trolls who think their le epic memes are reality. Can you imagine complaining about what other people eat? What does it matter to you, how egotistical are you that you want to complain that other people eat pineapple on pizza, what a childish thing to do.
Also bonus points for hypocritically saying my experience can’t be real, while yours is objective reality. No, you are just from a region or social group that has abandoned civility and politeness, and cannot possibly fathom anyone disagreeing with them without being rude and condescending to them.
Blocked, go kick rocks kid.
Once you see what brazil does to pizza you’ll never care about pineapple again.
Related, Japan does some horrific things too.
I know a few in real life. And they can sod right off while I devour my Pizza “Crime Against Humanity”. 🍍
I’ve run into too many of them, they are most definitely out there even if you haven’t personally run into them.
Well, of course since you don’t meet chronically online people IRL by definition.
Wait, there are internet memes that are not silly?
Cool. Whatever you experience is the only truth. What else do you wanna teach the world today?
What a rude thing to say, so nobody is allowed to hold an opinion that you disagree with? Or share their experience if it doesn’t agree with yours? Do you not see how hypocritical your statement is, or how needlessly hostile it was presented?
This feels like /r/ComedyNecrophillia material.
Pineapple on Pizza - eh
Pasta on Pizza - an evil only adequately punished by perpetual constipation.
Mac and cheese pizza.
I think for me the tartness of pineapple combined with the acidity of tomatoes, is too reminiscent of the flavor profile of bile. It tastes like I threw up a little in my mouth, which is not something I desire to pay for, chew, savor, or swallow.
If that’s how your puke tastes, you should bottle and sell it.
Mmm, delicious butyric acid.
Is that catboy Jerma?
I mean the correct order is the tip with a bite of the crust from one side, then continue to go along that side biting a piece of the crust along with the base pizza. Unless you have something like curry on the side, then you can just not eat the crust at all and use it as breadsticks for the curry.
I’m confused by this comic, because she’s literally eating it crust first, which is not the side. And crust first is a 100% qualified way to eat pizza.
Also pineapple is one of the best toppings
I usually go with garlic butter or ranch for the crust breadstick, but curry sounds pretty good.
Oooh garlic butter is gonna be my next one to try. Pizza and spiiicy spicy curry is my hangover special - leftover curry and make or order pizza and then eat the crusts with the sauce. Garlic butter sounds like heaven though.
E: Tomato soup is also another great one for dipping crusts.
… Did anybody else look at the thumbnail and see Eri from BNHA?
