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Hawaiian pizza

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The interesting fact is that hawaiian pizza was invented in Canada. You might have guessed from the name Hawaiian Pizza came from Hawaii.

Another similar is Danish bread which was not invented in Denmark but in Vienna. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_pastry

It would be interesting to know why they get these country names. And I would guess most people here know that french fries were created in Belgium.

Obviously US pizza eaters are very weird people. Their least favorite toppings are pineapple, anchovies and mushrooms. Not liking mushrooms on pizza is just wrong.

It's impossible cook a fresh mushroom dry on top of a pizza, so they make the cheese watery. Precooked like carmelized onions are good but few places do that

Caesar salad is a Mexican dish, created by and Italian chef, targeted toward American consumers.

How so Mexican?

It was invented and popularized at a hotel in Tijuana.

For those of you that like Hawaiian pizza try adding prawns/shrimp to it. Its a very good combo!

There’s a few of these types of things in Canada.

Boston Pizza: Started in Edmonton

New York Fries: Originated in Brantford, ON

Ha! Talk about shameless cultural appropriation. There ought to be a law.

And in reality it was on offer from a German TV chef even before the Greco-Canadian appropriation version.

Life is global now!

Death penalty for those who make Hawaiian pizza? I think that's the only acceptable punishment. :)

Here's a much better one: mandatory melted cheese in their fruit salad (due to their criminal misuse of pineapple)

I have an enduring memory of being a child in Bangkok eating “Super Hawaiian” pizza, which was a Hawaiian with Thousand Island dressing

I make it with pineapple, cashew, garlic, and red onions.

In France they put Egg on pizza, like you have a big ole fried egg in the middle. I find that crazy. Whilst Pineapple might seem odd ... it's amazing.

I think that’s in Florence

I never really got why pineapple on pizza is considered weird - at least here in the UK it's common to get a gammon steak with pineapple on it, or have roast pork with apple sauce which is a similar concept. I can get not liking it if it isn't your thing, but I don't think it is a particularly odd topping.

There’s also a Mexican taco with pineapple as a topping, eaten pretty much anywhere

Taco al pastor and it's the result of Lebanese immigrants to Mexico bringing the doner kebab/shawarma "trompo" and applying it to pork.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_pastor

On the gammon with pineapple thing - I remember a popular science programme when I was young (Tomorrow's World maybe) about gammon and pineapple. It started with a story from the Second World War about some soldiers in the Pacific theatre, who were stranded in occupied territory, and survived by coming out at night and stealing pineapples from the fields. Apparently all their teeth fell out, and this was not because the sugar in the pineapples had simply rotted their teeth as the soldiers initially thought, but because of enzymes in the pineapples softening their gums. And it is these enzymes that soften meat and make pineapple a great meat tenderiser, and hence a great accompaniment for gammon.

How's that crazy? Its just a variation of omelette au fromage.

It's Bismarck pizza: margherita with open egg in the middle (not fried, but cooked in the oven)

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