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A story reported by German news site n-tv.de — about a cook getting fired for not putting pineapple on a pizza — became a talking point on the German-language forum Lemmy c/dach. Whether pineapple belongs on pizza is one of those evergreen online debates that’s been rehashed for years, but this time it turned into a laid-back food chat, with some people seriously recommending the combo of grilled pineapple and Tyrolean bacon, others pointing out that people apparently take dead seriously what was supposed to be just an internet joke, and even a detour into a podcast about the history of tomatoes.
A chef was fired for not putting pineapple on a pizza
Source: n-tv.de / Original article here
What people said
Has anyone actually tried this? I wonder what's the smallest you can cube the pineapple so it doesn't dry out completely at pizza-baking temps.
The combo itself sounds amazing, though! I just feel like with "Hawaiian"-style pizzas, big hot chunks of pineapple get a little awkward to eat.
I always figured "pineapple on pizza = evil" was just an internet joke, but just like lizard-people conspiracy theories, there's always someone out there who takes it 100% seriously.
Here's the tomato episode (with a tangent on Italian cuisine): https://www.geschichte.fm/archiv/gag487/
Thanks, I'll give it a listen sometime!
Never actually tried it myself, but just cutting the rings into roughly eighths should probably do the trick.
Background and Key Points of This Debate
This all started from an actual news article on German site n-tv.de reporting that a chef was fired for refusing to put pineapple on a pizza — and whether pineapple belongs on pizza has long been one of those evergreen “debates” that flares up again and again across both the English- and German-speaking internet. In the thread, defenders made genuine, specific recommendations for pairing grilled pineapple with Tyrolean bacon, while other replies took a more detached view, comparing the endless back-and-forth to lizard-people conspiracy theories and noting that what started as an internet joke always seems to pick up people who take it dead seriously. Nobody settled who’s “right” — instead, the thread drifted into joking about wanting to see the chef’s reaction to a decidedly non-traditional pizza topped with ground meat, broccoli, and hollandaise sauce, plus a tangent into a podcast about the history of tomatoes, giving the whole thing the relaxed feel of casual food chat. The actual specifics behind the chef’s firing in the original article were never really dug into within the thread.
※This article is a condensed, editorially translated excerpt from the thread “Koch gefeuert, weil er Pizza nicht mit Ananas belegt” on the overseas forum Lemmy c/dach. Responsibility for the translation lies with this site.
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