Reality Check by Dave Whamond for September 06, 2024

And we don’t smoke in restaurants!

If people want to contaminate their food and drink with disgusting pollutants, vile substances and questionable flavourings then they should be allowed to do so without fear of being judged.

In the Philippines they had tuna fish pizza makes pineapple sound good

PUMPKING?

Italian cooking is hyper-regional, obsessed with “purity” especially if it’s mythical, and rejects experimentation. It never really recovered from Mussolini. Americans made pizza better and set off a wave of innovation which was exported back to Italy and claimed by them once the serial numbers were filed off. The reason people like pineapple on pizza is that it’s delicious. Same reason they don’t like pickled herring with crabapple on pizza; those aren’t delicious. And do you know what? India does pizza better than the US or Italy

Flogging offences, particularly the first

If you think pizza Hawaii is the ultimate pizza perversion, try pizza with chocolate. Yes, that does exist.

Another non-believer. (Sigh)

Pizza toppings include whatever you want. That is why you get a choice of toppings.

I’ll stick with pepperoni!

Mamma meaow! It a catastrophe!

ALL HAIL THE PUMPKING!!!

Something fishy about anchoviesb on pizza.

I’m with him. I don’t want pineapple on my pizza and I take my coffee straight and black, with no flavorings or other adulterants.

It’s September and it’s the everything pumpkin time of year for my wife. She made pumpkin bars to take to her brother yesterday.

Poor Antonio….but after he tried the pineapple he loved it and featured it on his next dinner party. He’ll never admit it though! He shall never speak of this again! Gottit? Bachagalupes?

Probably not.

Don’t forget using ketchup/catsup on your hotdogs/hamburgers. #ketchupisforheathens/catsupisforcowards.

Then there’s the dousing a perfectly good steak with A-1. I say perfectly good as in not burnt to a fare-the-well.

Does Italy make what we call Pizza? Or is that an Americanized food? Whet we think of as Mexican food is actually Tex-Mex.

Uff da! They’ve added THC to my gummie bears.

Raisins in turkey stuffing? That’s fine, but put some fruit on tomato-sauced bread and you’re evil. Hmph. Pineapple pizza is ambrosia!

Go ahead and put it on, just don’t call it pizza.

You ain’t seen sacrilego till you try pizza next door.. in Israel. Fish pizza is something else…

Wait until someone comes up with pumpkin spice pizza.

And you never drink a margarita with your margherita, capiche?

we like what we like. no judgement here

As long as there are no olives, I’m good. :)

Never heard of a Hawaiian pizza? Ham, cheese and PINEAPPLE!!! It is GREAT!!!

Hawaiian pizza is a pizza originating in Canada, traditionally topped with pineapple, tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, and either ham or bacon.

HistorySam Panopoulos, a Greek-born Canadian, created the first Hawaiian pizza at the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada, in 1962. Inspired in part by his experience preparing Chinese dishes which commonly mix sweet and savoury flavours, Panopoulos experimented with adding pineapple, ham, bacon, and other toppings. These additions were not initially very popular.

The addition of pineapple to the traditional mix of tomato sauce and cheese, along with either ham or bacon, later became popular locally and eventually became a staple offering of pizzerias on a global scale. The name of this creation was not directly inspired by the U.S. state of Hawaii at all; Panopoulos chose the name Hawaiian after the brand of canned pineapple they were using at the time. Stolen from Wikipedia.

CSB: I have had Hawaiian brand pineapple. Not bad.

The spice of life.

You can now get pineapple on pizza in many parts of Italy. Get over it. Pick out the chunks and don’t eat it. You know, like an adult.

Good idea, Ralph. Mama Mia’s garlic bread is the best. (Greenfield, WI)

Maybe you guys just don’t like coffee ???

Coffee came from this side of the world. Italians got it from us.

If you want to see weird pizza, try a Japanese pizzeria menu. Squid ink pizza made me realize that I wasn’t really very hungry.

Pepperoni, sausage, and beer: my college staple …!