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President of Iceland announces that he would ban pineapple as a pizza topping

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MKIL65

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Mr. Giggles said:
If seafood pizza rubs you the wrong way never have pizza in east asia
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Yeah, anyone wants some scallop pizza?

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kmfdmpig

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I love seafood pizza and seafood pancake. Spicy shrimp pizza, smoked salmon pizza, etc.. are all great.
I also love pineapple pizza. I get that it's not for everyone, but it is odd that people are so upset about others having an option that they don't have to partake in. I'm not a fan of chicken on pizza, but don't look down on or whine about the fact that others have it.
 
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Canadian inventor of Hawaiian pizza defends pineapple after Iceland's president disses fruit topping

The president of Iceland has made a bold, shocking statement about a Canadian invention.

President Guoni Johannesson recently told a group of high school students during a Q&A that he was fundamentally opposed to pineapple on pizza — and that's not all. He went on to say if he could, he would ban pineapple as a pizza topping.

We demanded an interview with the president. He was not available. But his office did send along a statement which was also shared on Facebook.

For a more detailed rebuttal, we decided to call up the authority on all things pineapple and pizza. Canadian Sam Panopoulos, 83, of London, Ont., who is credited with inventing Hawaiian pizza.

Here's a slice of his conversation with guest host Helen Mann.

Helen Mann: The president of Iceland says pineapple on pizza should be illegal. You invented pineapple on pizza so what do you say to the president?


Sam Panopoulos: Well, I invented it. That's what I've got to say. Why? Somebody has a patent on it?
HM: Well, he just doesn't like it and he thinks it's...

SP: When I was working on the pineapple pizza — he wasn't even born. It's so way back. There was no patent. Nobody owned it. Nobody owned the name or anything like this — how can it be illegal?

HM: Well, I mean he is the president of Iceland, I guess he has some power.

SP: He can have whatever he wants — I don't care. Listen, I don't get nothing out of it. He can do whatever he wants as far as I'm concerned

HM: You haven't got a patent on the pineapple?

SP: No. I wish I had. Those days, when I first came up with it, there was nothing to it. You know what I mean? It was just another piece of bread cooking in the oven.

HM: What is it that inspired you to put pineapple on pizza?

SP: That was back in the late '50s, the '60s. Pizza wasn't in Canada — nowhere. Pizza was coming in through Detroit, through Windsor, and I was in Chatham then, that was the third stop. We had a restaurant there. We went down to Windsor a couple of times, and these places, and I said, "Let's try a pizza."

Then we tried to make some pizza. Along the way, we threw some pineapples on it and nobody liked it at first. But after that, they went crazy about it. Because those days nobody was mixing sweets and sours and all that. It was plain, plain food. Anyway, after that it stays. We sell pizzas in Chatham and in London for the next 40, 45 years.

HM: Are there certain other toppings that go best with pineapple?

SP: Those days, the main thing was mushrooms, bacon and pepperoni. There was nothing else going on the pizza. After that, everybody started putting everything on it. You can put sardines on it. You can put salmon in it. You can put green peppers, onions, whatever you want you can put today — and everybody eats it.

HM: So you agree? Because the president of Iceland also says seafood is good on pizza.

SP: Yes, it is. But after my pineapple — tell him!

HM: If the president of Iceland got to try a slice of your pineapple pizza do you think you might be able to change his mind?

SP: I don't care what he does. He can say whatever he wants. He sells the fish over there, you know, that's all he does. So he has to put the fish on the pizza.

HM: Do you make any pizza these days?

SP: No, I eat pizza, but I don't make 'em anymore. I usually get those Dr. Oetker or whatever you call them. They're very light.

HM: The ones you get in the freezer?

SP: Yeah, yeah. They're very nice — thin crust and some of them have a nice soft crust.

HM: So you don't make your own pizza dough at home?

SP: No, I don't. I get sick and tired of making pizzas.

HM: Any final words for the president of Iceland?

SP: [Laughs] Well, I don't know the guy. He should know better. I'm sure he is a lot younger than I am and I was doing pizza when I was a young guy, you know what I mean?
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Hermii

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I bet the history books hundreds of years from now will remember Guðni Jóhannesson as someone who didnt like pineapple on pizza.
 
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a lot of my threads involve me fucking up somehow. Perhaps I'm a moron?
A Canadian invented pinaeapple on pizza?

Fuck me, I have never been this ashamed of my nationality.
 
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Abstrusity

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I want to go super-low but his father is a legend and I can't hate the guy personally, even for being wrong about pineapple on pizza.


The rest of ya'll are savages, though.
 
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The Lamp

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It's just plain fact that sweet + savory/salty make amazing flavor combinations that the public enjoys.

Pineapple is sweet. Pizza and Canadian bacon are salty and savory.

It works period.

People who hate it are just plebes, and Iceland is the place for them.
 
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lazygecko

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I love sweet + salty/spicy dishes in general. Nasi Goreng with pineapple is also awesome. There's also a Swedish chicken dish that mixes chili sauce, banana and peanuts.

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