This underlines my biggest issue with italian cuisine. There are so many chefs that leave no room for innovation or updates to a traditional recipies. I’ll put cream in my carbonara and pineapple on my pizza because I like the taste of it. And those preferences should be more important than the old traditions when it comes to making foods I want to enjoy.
And Italy also invented fascism, so I’m not sure I’ll follow their judgement on pineapples…
Personally, I wouldn’t care what a customer ordered on their pizza, they could order the worst possible combination of flavours, and I’d happily make it for them, what’s the big deal? It wouldn’t hurt me, or anyone else.
I understand that guy perfectly.
good pineapple on pizza is an abomination and calling it hawaiian is like putting picked cotton on a pizza and calling it black
Skimming the article, it seems this chap had a few other issues but this was the headline grabbing detail.
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Wait until Italians and Pseudo-Italian Americans find out about Durian pizza. They’ll be begging for pineapple.
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I would love to try this! Durian might actually fit nicely
what is this unholy abomination. please tell me this isn’t real.
It’s malaysian. Those guys love their durian.
Then don’t work for the fucking restaurant that sells pineapples on pizza.
None of this is that difficult.
The LinkedIn profile states he now works at another Brisbane restaurant. A BBC check has found that pineapple is not on its menu.
Based
Funny as this is, the guy is def both stupid and an asshole
I hope he also refuses to put tomatoes on pizza, because they’re a new world plant and non-native to Europe and Italy. What a fart sniffing jackhole.
Tomatoes are fruit! D-:
Pizza is not really Italian. A lot of cultures have invented flatbread that you top with stuff before baking. It just happens that the Italian version of that got spread around widely. And then other cultures added their own flairs, one of which is pineapple, usually connected with a salty pork product like ham or Canadian bacon.
Here in California, that’s called Hawaiian style pizza, and I didn’t get it, myself, until I tried it and found it’s a pairing that works, usually with extra mozzarella cheese.
I don’t know that it’s actually Hawaiian even in style, though my wife’s family used to like going to Hawaiian-style fast food, which involves a lot of Spam (the Hormell kind), so there… may be a connection?
My parents’ generation, in the 1970s way dug anchovies on pizza which I found way too salty. I didn’t get it then, but I don’t see much in the way of anchovies on pizza now. So collective tastes may change with time.
I don’t know that it’s actually Hawaiian even in style
It’s not–Hawaiian pizza was invented in Canada IIRC.
It’s weird. I’m at an age where I wouldn’t mind to try out anchovies on pizza, but it’s become so out-of-style that either pizza places don’t carry it any more, or people are so repulsed by it that it’s hard to order with others sharing.
Meanwhile, I’ve always loved pineapple on pizza, and that one seemed to have stuck around as a topping longer.
Anchovies on pizza are fantastic, especially in some Italian thin crust, say with black olives, onions, capers, artichoke…
The problem is that people use them as an ingredient, where they should be used as a seasoning, sparingly.
I hate pineapple pizza but this chef missed what cooking is about: satisfaction. And if pineapple pizza satisfies someone out there, it’s the chef’s duty to do it.
I see you aren’t a chef. Culinary arts is a chef’s expression. Any chef with self-respect can refuse what they consider culinary blasphemy.
Oh, for fucks sake! No, my friend, as part of the hospitality sector, your OBLIGATION is to make people enjoy their meal, stay, whatever. It’s the ONLY REASON FOR THE EXISTENCE OF YOUR JOB. Also, I’m fucking tired of the whole chef worship. You are a fucking craftsman, not an artist. You are not a brain surgeon, a rocket scientist, Picasso. You just found a way to make pea foam taste like lobster or some other little TRICK.
I’ve owned a restaurant, BTW, and the first thing I drilled into my employees when they came on board was that their job was to make the customers day better.
If a customer, who pays your fucking salary, wants pickles on ice cream, you give them pickles.
It’s not that simple. What if the chef is Saudi and the customer asks for bacon and he refuses because it’s against his religion to use pork? Would that be an acceptable reason for refusing or would he have to violate his beliefs because some idiot wants something?
Some “idiot” wants something… that’s on the menu?
It’s not that simple. What if the pharmacist is Catholic and the customer asks for birth control and he refuses because it’s against his religion to use birth control? Would that be an acceptable reason for refusing or would he have to violate his beliefs because some idiot wants something?
See how this works?
How about some other stuff member do that, not forcing and fireing the ona who can’t?
Sounds great until the other chefs are out sick and some “idiot” (again, your words) orders something on the menu.
Having principles can be tough, but the time to exercise them is when choosing a job in the first place.
There’s no art if there isn’t an audience. At most there’s someone playing with clay, letters, paint… or food. And my mother taught me to not play with food.
Blasphemy? I shit on the cross.
In Oz of all places, we love pineapple here! The question starts to become, what is Italian culture? What is culture itself?
Wheat flour for the base originated in the middle east, tomatoes are from South America. Every culture is a melting pot of other cultures. Stop clinging to the identity of a culture and just enjoy the fruit of this collaboration.
Pineapple on pizza, bring it! The Californian sushi roll is from Canada and Salmon in sushi comes from Norway. It is all just one big mix of the world, the world is a globe it has no boarders.
Don’t eat salmon, they deserve to live as well.
Reddit-ass Italian chef, GTFO of here
Nothing to do with Reddit.
Asked a middle aged Italian man (father of my friend’s wife) what he thinks of pineapple on pizza. He just stood up and walked out the room while shaking his head and saying “No. No. Absolutely not. No.”
Pineapple pizza hate is vindicated.
Because one middle-aged Italian man got irrationally upset?
Cry about it.
Ah yes, the response of the absolute dumbest fucking people with literally no other point to make.
Congrats on outing yourself as someone too dumb to be executed by Texas.
Imagine being this angry over something so insignificant. Found the next shooter.
I don’t need to make any other point.
No one even knows what point you tried to make the first time
The state of Queensland, where the restaurant is located, is considered Australia’s pineapple heartland
Is that what we are?
Who’s a good little pineapple? Who’s a cute little ananas?
