# American's pizza poll **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058 "2008-07-02T16:03:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058/81 "2008-07-03T01:06:55Z")
No. Pineapple is an abomination. Pineapple on pizza doubly so. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058/82 "2008-07-03T01:23:27Z")
Yes! Even just pineapple pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058/83 "2008-07-03T01:24:35Z")
Yes. Oh yes. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058/84 "2008-07-03T02:09:10Z")
I do not like Hawaiian Pizza. I have never, ever bought a Hawaiian Pizza. (I did buy a pizza in Hilo one time, but I guess that doesn’t count?) ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058/85 "2008-07-03T02:17:18Z")
Repulsive and reprehensible. Not fit for man nor beast. I question the sanity and taste of anyone who even would consider such an abomination. In case I’m unclear: no, no, a thousand times no. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058/86 "2008-07-03T02:23:15Z")
Yes. Pepperoni and pineapple is also pretty damn good (though not as good as CB & P) Strangely, prosciutto and pineapple - not good. I don’t know why. You’d think it would be better than canadian bacon or ham & pineapple, but it just doesn’t seem to work. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058/87 "2008-07-03T02:29:15Z")
No. [QUOTE=Subway Prophet] I can blame my sister for handing me this addiction: Pineapple, Canadian bacon, and popcorn shrimp (unbreaded, pre-cooked, and **thawed** ). This is already a lot of moisture, so use a thick crust and go easy with the sauce. [/QUOTE] _gag_ ---
**Author:** ![sunacres](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@sunacres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunacres)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058/88 "2008-07-03T03:17:43Z")
**Harmonious** , as you’ve indicated there is a huge difference between what people say they like and what they’ll pick. I like just about every food known to man, but I’ll still be selective when I’ve got a choice. I like pineapple and Canadian bacon pizzas. But I might prefer sausage and garlic at a buffet, even enough to wait for it. The proportion of the population who “like” it will not explain the buffet problem you’ve described. Two completely different animals. This confusion is related to why I never tell people what my “favorite” anything is. All too often they think it will please me to offer me my favorite every flippin time. No thanks. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058/89 "2008-07-03T03:30:05Z")
Papa John’s has a chicken-bacon-pineapple 'za with a sweet BBQ sauce that I’ve set up as my standard order. Love. There’s another place in town that serves a gyro pizza - schwarma, feta, onions, tomatoes on tzitziki sauce - and with their excellent crust it really does taste exactly like a regular gyro. Only a lot bigger. 😃 Tonight I was at a restaurant that has a shrimp and roasted peach 'za with a slightly sweet chili sauce as its base that was lovely. Some commercial fropi (Freschetta’s?) used to make a chicken pizza with Thai peanut sauce. One of the best pizzas I’ve ever had was made of carmelized onions and gorgonzola cheese. Pizza “purists” puzzle me. They have no idea what they’re missing when it comes to the round, toasted, open-faced sandwich genre. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058/90 "2008-07-03T07:20:08Z")
I love it, along with almost any other kind of pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058/91 "2008-07-03T07:41:57Z")
I love Hawaiian pizza, but the wife does not like pineapple (odd for a Thai not to like pineapple), so we never order it. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058/92 "2008-07-03T07:44:38Z")
[QUOTE=NAF1138] We do weird shit to pizza out here, but sometimes it’s not so bad. Banana pizza (with a cinnamon sugar topping instead of tomato sauce) that you can get at places like Bossa Nova is fairly fantastic, as is the thai pizza you get at CPK. Don’t know about pizza with cashews though, that just seems wrong texture wise. [/QUOTE] Ha! I’LL tell YOU about weird pizza. Over here, you can get it with carrots, peas and/or corn! That’s REAL sacrilege. Other odd ingredients, too. Some of the Thai-food variations, like “tom yum kung” pizza or spicy chicken are actually not bad, though. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058/93 "2008-07-03T08:07:19Z")
I don’t eat meat on pizza, in any form. Bacon or ham would be double ungood. Pineapple’s fine, though, although I rarely order it. Generally speaking, I’m a purist - pizza should consist of _pizza_: dough, tomato sauce and cheese. Anything else would just be a distraction. But I’m weird that way. I mean, I’m just about the only Israeli who eats his falafel sans salad. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058/94 "2008-07-03T12:45:11Z")
[QUOTE=sunacres] **Harmonious** , as you’ve indicated there is a huge difference between what people say they like and what they’ll pick. I like just about every food known to man, but I’ll still be selective when I’ve got a choice. I like pineapple and Canadian bacon pizzas. But I might prefer sausage and garlic at a buffet, even enough to wait for it. The proportion of the population who “like” it will not explain the buffet problem you’ve described. Two completely different animals. [/QUOTE] A result of almost no likes would have shown a reason for the hawaiian pizza just sitting there. Nobody that dislikes it will take it, but the reverse isn’t true. This poll as asked was meant specifically for seeing if the reason it sat there was almost nobody liked it. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058/95 "2008-07-03T12:48:51Z")
I’m not American, but hell no! Pineapples should stay on the trees\*, where they grow. - 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058/96 "2008-07-03T13:38:30Z")
Yes. I thought I’d hate it, but it was delicious. It’s not what I usually order, though. But at a pizza buffet where it’s present, I’ll have a slice or two. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058/97 "2008-07-03T13:50:08Z")
Delivering pizza from IMHO to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058/98 "2008-07-03T15:50:06Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] Ha! I’LL tell YOU about weird pizza. Over here, you can get it with carrots, peas and/or corn! That’s REAL sacrilege. Other odd ingredients, too. Some of the Thai-food variations, like “tom yum kung” pizza or spicy chicken are actually not bad, though. [/QUOTE] A few years ago, I found a page of weird Japanese pizzas. I can’t find it now, but if you google “Japanese pizza,” there are some weird ones. [Pizza-La](http://www.pizza-la.co.jp/menu_e/menu110_pub.html), apparently the most popular pizza chain in Japan. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058/99 "2008-07-03T15:58:21Z")
Wow, that Pizza-La…raw ham!!! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-pizza-poll/455058/100 "2008-07-03T18:07:47Z")
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