So, a Greek guy in Canada made an Italian staple into something that he thought would represent a Hawaiian cuisine (even though it was just the can, many people naively believe it truly is a Hawaiian dish)
Once someone told me they thought that’s how they ate their pizza over there. Lol.
Nevertheless, if I were in Canada at that time, I would have visited his restaurant and ordered one of the originals. It’s not the best pizza topping but it is also not the worst. (I hate anchovies, fish of any kind or mushrooms on my pizza. Mushrooms are good in other dishes.)
Lots of foods have misleading cultural backgrounds. Chicken tikka masala, for instance, was invented in Glasgow.
And god bless him for it.
You know, if it had been invented by a Hawaiian, it would probably have Spam on it.
Hawaiians love them some Spam.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-hawaiians-are-utterly-obsessed-with-spam/
I like fried spam. I really never had it otherwise.
I have not had Spam, but I have heard it is similar to pork roll (more salty, maybe?), and as someone who grew up on pork roll, that shit is fucking amazing.
I haven’t either, to be honest. But I don’t eat meat anymore and haven’t in some time, so I guess I’ll never know what it tastes like.
Ham and pineapple are an awesome combo. Not quite spam, but fairly close.
And on that day, pizza crimes were born.
Meanwhile, OP, please pass me those mushrooms. Nom nom!
I had pineapple on pizza once. It wasn’t as bad as I thought but not on my top ten. I like mushrooms with steak, cheese steak and other dishes and casseroles. I had an anchovy and not a fan. Tried to eat a sardine, was horrible. Fish on pizza is a crime if fruit is.
Fun fact: Tomato is considered a fruit.
Yeah but it is used as a vegetable. So is cucumber (but I haven’t seen cucumber on pizza, but I have seen pickles on a cheese burger pizza). People don’t like sweet/sour fruits on pizza. While tomatoes are often sweet, not as sweet as most fruits. All plants that are edible and come from flower ovaries are fruits: bell peppers, squash, eggplant.
Just a friendly reminder, pollen is plant cum. Enjoy that thought the next time you have a sneezing fit.
Yea and we eat plant reproductive organs. But it doesn’t surprise me because we eat “babies” ie chicken eggs. Young animals ie veal. Also, bees vomit the pollen they process in their stomachs onto the honeycomb. Nature is indeed wild, but we are notoriously wilder.
Chicken eggs aren’t babies, they’re not fertilized.
Unless you have had Balut.
Goddamn tree jizz!
Also, most fruits with ‘berry’ in the name aren’t actual berries.
Bananas, grapes, eggplants and oranges, however, are berries.
https://www.livescience.com/57477-why-are-bananas-considered-berries.html
I should have added that lol. Strawberry was one that surprised me a while ago. Never knew that they are in the rose family and flowers kind of.
And I was mad at animal crossing for putting bananas on palm trees . They are herbs and berries.
I would never order it, but I’ll eat a “Hawaiin” if someone puts it in front of me (well, would have before my gluten issues). Living in Japan taught me that a lot of things work amazingly well on pizza. Roasted corn is one of my favorites. Bulgogi and kimchi is another one that works really nicely.
Sign me up for bulgogi and kimchi on wood fired Neapolitan style.
I’ll never just order anchovies, but I don’t hate them. If someone mentions that they like anchovies but no one is willing to share a pie with them, I’ll gladly split a pie with them.
Conversely to your statement, I would totally eat an anchovi, mushroom, pineapple and jerk mahi mahi pizza :)
Mushrooms always change the texture of the cheese when you take them off. I don’t want to notice a mushroom when I eat it. I eat mushrooms in other dishes like a casserole or with steak or beef stew etc. anchovies might be the same way. I tried them plain. But I am rarely picky. If someone serves it, I will eat it.
For what it’s worth I believe that mushroom should be sliced thin and thoroughly sauteed before they’re put on the pie. They should have a density somewhere around sausage and really shouldn’t change the texture of the cheese much if they’re done right.
I know a lot of places that just throw raw sliced mushrooms on a pizza and I think that’s horrible.
And trovise on the other hand should just be salty with a slight umami flavor. I think the only true consistency problem I see with them is if you get a whole anchovy in your mouth right along your molars, when you bite into it they will be a bit chewy which is not great. Realistically nothing on a pizza should be chewy ;)
A can?!?
Bro, do you know how expensive pineapples used to be? They used to rent them out to rich people so they can have it as a discussion piece at a party.
This is not a joke.
Yeah he must’ve really rationed it, lol
Best Hawaiian style pizza is Round Table’s Maui Wowie. Ham, bacon, pineapple, green onion with a “Polynesian” style sauce (their name not mine). It’s not quite a normal tomato sauce, it’s sweeter and slightly spicy. So, so good.
The Greeks are expert at trolling the Italians.
Who got the last laugh?
Canada, I guess? 🤷
Is any food named after a place ever actually from that place?
Champagne notwithstanding.
Soy beans are named after soy sauce, which isn’t what you asked but it’s a fact I recently learned that surprised me.
The colour orange didn’t exist until they discovered oranges.
Canaries are named after the Canary islands. The islands were named after dogs (canines).
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I didn’t know that, so I’ll accept it lol
Another TIL for me. Japanese: shōyu.
Isn’t it the reverse, since soy sauce uses soy beans?
I’m glad you asked! That’s the fun bit. The sauce, called shōyu in Japanese, became popular among westerners and they called it “soy sauce.” When those westerners traveled to Japan and were shown the beans, they called them “soy beans” because they were used to make the sauce.
No, but I hear Julius Caesar invented a salad.
Which is weird, because Parmesan cheese didn’t exist until the middle ages and I have no idea about croutons.
And Bob Cobb invented the Cobb Salad at the Brown Derby in 1937
I couldn’t find any info on that. Only that the Caesar salad was named after someone named Caesar.
That’s because Julius Caesar didn’t invent it and I was joking.
I knew he didn’t invent it. I googled whether he invented any salad or had a favorite but all the results were about how he didn’t invent Caesar salad lol.
The joker here is Caesar Romero who actually invented the caesar salad.
Russian dressing. French dressing. French fries, toast, German chocolate cake. Are good examples.
However,
Cheddar cheese is actually from Cheddar (England).
Italian dressing originated in Rome with olive oil and vinegar among some other ingredients like seasonings.
Romaine lettuce came from countries around Mediterranean sea and named “Roman lettuce” from Italian translation. Whoever named it that may have been from Rome or Italian. It was also called that in the other countries, sources say possibly named by someone Greek calling it Roman lettuce.
Buffalo wings are from Buffalo, NY.
French Fries are from Belgium
Reminds me of the origin of potato chips being a product of revenge from an angry restaurant worker.
I had no idea toast was from Toast! You learn something new every day…
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
You left out the best part! The diagram!
Oof, I’m on dark mode, apparently their ‘white’ background is actually transparent… ☹️
Either way, have an upvote for the thought and effort 👍
There’s also a “Canadian” pizza which is usually Pepperoni, Bacon and Mushrooms, sometimes made with a Cheddar Cheese/Mozza blend depending on the place
Well I have definitely had pepperoni and bacon on my pizza. Those ingredients would work well on a cheesesteak, I would eat mushrooms on a sandwich. There was a place near me with “stereotypical ethnic” pizzas and sandwiches that had Canadian pizza on it if I remember correctly. They had Chinese, Greek, Mexican etc. they also had celebrity/historian sandwiches that were decent.
We also invented hockey and basketball, and 2 out of three ain’t bad.
So many things originate from immigrants who moved to the US and then made it by inventing something. I didn’t know that basketball was made by a Canadian in Massachusetts.
I hope to vacation up in Canada one day. I love mountainous areas and a lot of good bands and influencers I follow live there or are from there.
Everyone in Canada knows this. We try to play it off as American, like Justin Bieber or Celine Dion.
What’s wrong with Celine Dion?
I know America kind of deserves it, but that doesn’t really justify Greece and Canada hurting us like this.
We Americans deserve every bad thing we get. Lol. I hate it here.
I don’t know, Hawaiian pizza feels cruel and unusual to me.
That would explain why pineapple pizza included Canadian bacon.
🤔
I wonder if the just call it bacon up there.
It’s called back bacon, 🥓 is still just bacon.
Goddamn right it is.
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Clearly fake, where’s the apology?
“Sorry, if you’re going shopping, could you pick up some Michael? We’re aboot oot, eh?”
