• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    to be fair, the pictured does look like a terrible version of a pineapple in pizza.

    The biggest issue is the pie having too much water content. You need to drain and press dry the line apple or it will turn into a soupy mess. Also, rings are 100% not the way to go. Need to slice those bad boys up into smaller pieces. Also pineapple does something special to the flavor of mottzarella.

    My barometer for a pizza place is a jalapeno pineapple, do fight me if you don’t think pineapple belongs on pizza.

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      10 months ago

      Well it’s a bianca which does seem a little off to me to just remove the sauce element entirely but it seems like he went for just the pure ‘salty and sweet’ play and I think it could work. He grills the pineapple rings to eliminate moisture issues. Overall I think this would be a good pie but the tomato seems so crucial to the whole thing working, but maybe that’s only when ham is in play.

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      As an aside, a recipe for a good party food is to core and hollow out a half pineapple, leaving some meat on the skin, then chop the remainder and lightly brown in a pan with cubed ham, cherry tomatoes and pizza seasoning of your choice (basil is great here), then throw it all back into the pineapple with those little mozzarella balls and broil the whole thing. Serve it with crusty bread. It bops.

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      There are dozens of us who will fight for the righteous cause in the holy pineapple wars. The evil non-believers must be vanquished!

      Pineapple works best on a white pizza base tbh. Tomato and pineapple are eh. Still enjoyable but not as good as pineapple and a boatload of cheese.

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      10 months ago

      Pineapple, green peppers, onions, jalapenos, and if you want a meat, chicken or ham, but NO SAUCE. The sweet acidity plus tomatoes never tasted right to me, but I guessa little BBQ sauce would be ok.

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      10 months ago

      Personally I think the winning move is to grill your pineapple rings to dry them out and ad a little char, then chop them up smaller for the pizza

      100% there with you on jalapeno being the way to go. When I bust out my pizza oven my preferred Hawaiian pizza is diced-up and pan-fried spam, grilled pineapple, diced jalapenos, and a drizzle of hoisin sauce. I’ve also been experimenting with mumbo sauce since a few grocery stores around me have started carrying it.

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      10 months ago

      Pineapple belongs in a dessert, not on a pizza. You’re patently wrong and you know it.

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    10 months ago

    This is your reminder that Hawaiian Pizza was invented by a Greek immigrant in an Italian restaurant in Canada.

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    10 months ago

    I like pineapple pizza. I also dunk my fries in milkshake. When I’m feeling hungry I’ll open a ton of sardines and just go heavy on those salty fuckers right there over the sink. And I’m ashamed of none of these things.

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    10 months ago

    It’s good, but remember it doesn’t mean you have to have it on every pizza forever. It blends nicely with jalapenos and white onion to give a sweet and spicy taste, but I wouldn’t put it on a veggie lovers or meat lovers.

    Most importantly, no one is making you eat it. If someone else likes it, fuck off and let them enjoy it. This reminds me of the “no ketchup on hotdogs” people. Just let people like what they like.

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      10 months ago

      Italian ‘Pizza’ difficult to call pizza. It’s more like bread covered in tomato sauce with a little bit of cheese on it.

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    10 months ago

    very important article about how italian food snobbery is completely made up: https://www.ft.com/content/6ac009d5-dbfd-4a86-839e-28bb44b2b64c

    In this same house, in the 1980s, Nonna Fiore once served some English guests lasagna, per my uncle’s request. The lasagna was cooked from frozen, her story goes. Life was busy and, anyway, she had no qualms about serving a supermarket ready meal; people could only dream of such a luxury during the war. None of the guests suspected that she hadn’t made it from scratch and everyone was delighted, her Italian son included. She reminds me of this, then looks up at me and winks.

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      None of the guests suspected that she hadn’t made it from scratch

      Bullshit. Did this author ever try a 1980s frozen lasagna? They absolutely could tell, they just didn’t want to offend her.

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      10 months ago

      Vegan pepperoni and other pizza meats becoming standard options would be very very nice, shits come a long way, too, I bet it would work

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        10 months ago

        Maybe not in Italy though. There was this whole thing about it and the government banned it lol.

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        10 months ago

        I tried vegetarian sausages pan fried in olive oil once and put it on pizza. It tasted amazing since homemade pizza tastes amazing and pretty much anything pan fried in olive oil does as well.

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        10 months ago

        Vegan pepperoni

        Only US’ians mistake flavor in the sausage for the name of the sausage, so everywhere else it’s already vegan.

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    I try to give fans of Hawaiian pizza the benefit of the doubt. I say that apparently I’ve never had Hawaiian pizza done right. To me, it just tastes like a decent pizza… that somebody decided to add fruit to, for some incomprehensible reason. I’ll laugh at myself and change the topic.

    Do you insist on steering the topic back? Want to lecture me on how great “salty and sweet” is? Okay, fine. I’ll suggest putting Twizzlers on there. Or m&m’s. Is that nauseating? Do you think those flavors and/or textures don’t work well on pizza? NEITHER DOES PINEAPPLE, YOU STUBBORN, BORING PIZZA SNOB. SHUT UP ALREADY.

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    10 months ago

    I am glad nothing else in the world is going on so that we can afford to think important issues such as company trying a variation on pizza in a mature market with many options to consumers.

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    10 months ago

    As far as pineapple on pizza goes, I am firmly Team [LOREM IPSUM] and absolutely will 1v1 anyone irl over it.