Tomatoes aren’t even from Italy, get real.
Pineapple on pizza? No thanks. Meet the chefs bringing the real Italy to the UK
Submitted 2 days ago by Veserr@sh.itjust.works to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w42r1x7r5o
Comments
etherphon@piefed.world 2 days ago
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 2 days ago
The thing with food, people like what they like.
A pizza with good quality serrano ham and pineapple is pretty tasty.
Who gives a fuck if its “authentic”? If I wanted authentic I’d have a slab of cooked dough with some cheese on it and nothing else.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I guess a good Hawaiian isn’t something you’d expect to find in the United Kingdom.
Hawaii is at least as far from me as I am from the United Kingdom, but I have had a good Hawaiian. I hope that one day, everyone who hasn’t, can experience that just once.
This isn’t an argument for pineapple on pizza because pizza isn’t a monolithic thing. Sometimes I want a veggie pizza. Sometimes I want meat lover’s. Sometimes Hawaiian. Sometimes pepperoni & jalapeno. Sometimes sausage, bell pepper, and onion. Sometimes even BBQ — that’s chicken breast, onion, and bacon, with BBQ sauce instead of marinara. Like a Hawaiian, it isn’t traditional pizza, but it works.
I would hold no value for a pizza place that completely refuses to do pineapple. Rather, I would hold value for the pizza place that can change your mind about just about any topping (I stipulate that because no pizza place will ever convince me to eat shrimp on pizza, not because it can’t be good, but because I’m allergic to shrimp so that’s automatically a no go). That said, if you’re ever in the part of the US state of California where everyone smokes pot and thick red trees extend up into the clouds and beyond (the northern half), look up a chain called Round Table. They have a “Polynesian” pizza with pineapple that is something else. Sweet, spicy, and delicious.
Codpiece@feddit.uk 2 days ago
The Hawaiian pizza was invented by a Greek man living in Canada. It’s nothing to do with Hawaii at all.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I don’t think anyone (at least involved with culinary arts in any way beyond casual) thought it did. Like how pizza isn’t Italian, Chinese food isn’t Chinese, Mexican food isn’t Mexican, and so on. It’s a flavour someone made in the spirit of another place and everyone just kinda accepts that’s what it is, but they know deep down it’s not really what food from that place is like. Doesn’t mean the flavour is any less delicious, it’s just not geographically accurate. Most food falsely attributed to a region is more flavourful and bold than the food from the actual place. Like it’s inspired by the place or something.
It’s like when Americans started saying “French fries are now called Freedom Fries” and the French said “what you call French Fries are actually Belgian.” A lot of “French” food isn’t really French, either. Referring to chips.
UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Hear me out. Tuna, red onions, olives, parmesan cheese (extra, on top), and pine apple. After baking, sprinkle it with some aioli. Best damn soul food there is. If you want, jalapenos can be added, as well.
The basic idea (tuna+pine apple) is actually from Cyberpunk 2077, where it is called “tofu’d tuna and pine apple flavor” pizza. There is a funny bit of dialog there between V (the protagonist) and Judy concerning this topic, as well.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 days ago
I’ll put what I want on what I want.
Aarrodri@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Food is what people like, and how dishes evolve, or devolve sometimes. "You are doing it wrong " is snoby muppetry. I dunno I just woke up.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Bro is holding a pizza with tomato slices on it talking about “we only make real Italian food”…
Tomatoes come from America, the only difference to pineapples is they’ve had to atoes for 400 years.
You cant draw a line on “authentic” because every argument you make, someone could use every argument you just made to go back another 50 years.
username_1@programming.dev 2 days ago
“You’re doing it wrong” in most cases just points that this can be done better. But of course there are a set of people who will insist on their ineffective ways just because they’re too proud to admit their mistakes.