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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
He was a Greek immigrant that had lived in Canada for only around 8 years at that point though.
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.