A pizzeria is asking its customers to put their dough where their mouth is if they want to eat a Hawaiian – charging £100 for a ham and pineapple-topped pie.
The owners and staff of Lupa pizza in Norwich are so reviled by the Hawaiian that they have reluctantly added the topping to their delivery menu but only with the eye-watering price tag.
The menu description reads: “Yeah, for £100 you can have it. Order the champagne too! Go on you Monster!”
“I absolutely loathe pineapple on a pizza,” said the restaurant’s co-owner Francis Woolf. The head chef, Quin Jianoran, agreed, adding: “I love a pina colada, but pineapple on pizza? Never. I’d rather put a bloody strawberry on one than that tropical menace.”
In 2017, YouGov conducted polling over the Hawaiian pizza among Britons. It found that while 84% of Brits say they like pizza, and 82% like pineapple, only 53% say that they like pineapple on pizza. More than four in 10 Brits (41%) say they dislike pineapple on pizza.
The invention of the Hawaiian pizza is often credited to Sam Panopoulos, who emigrated from Greece to Canada in 1954 at the age of 20 and ran several restaurants in Ontario with his two brothers.
Panopoulos started adding pineapple to his pizzas in the 1960s, shortly after Hawaii joined the US in 1959, and is said to have named the pizza a “Hawaiian” after the brand of tinned pineapple he used.
The issue of whether pineapple belongs on a pizza is debated wide and far. In 2017, the president of Iceland was forced to clarify that he did not plan to formally ban pineapple from pizzas after telling students at a high school he was “fundamentally opposed” to the topping.
Source: theguardian.com
