It’s such a bad idea I’d think Arizona.
Here’s what Wikipedia says about Hawaiian pizza:
I actually have had Hawaiian pizza in Hawaii. But no, I don’t think it’s particularly popular there, at least no more so than in most other places.
Proof that Hawaiian Pizza is not fit for human consumption.
Except by Aussies and Canucks (I like it!!).
If it has pineapple, it’s ‘Hawaiian’, just like if it has avocado, it’s ‘California’. (A burger with pineapple and teriyaki though, is a ‘teriyaki burger’ or a ‘teri burger’.)
Someone necromanced one of my threads. That’s a first. Surprised it even happened, since I rarely start threads.
Anyway, in recent years I’ve noticed that Hawaiian pizza is really popular among Mexicans. Not that that gets us any closer to answering the OP, of course. I doubt that it originated in Mexico.
No, ghost from 2005, I will DEFINITELY be calling it Chinese Pie from now on.
Edit : Well I’ll be dipped…
When I was in college in the early 70’s (Northern California) my roommate was assistant manager at Shakey’s and it was on the menu there.
This book claims that it was invented in California:
Here’s what Google Ngram says about the term:
I suspect then that it was invented in California in the 1960’s, although it only became a fairly standard term in the 1980’s.
Probably a hijack,
At the time girlfriend: I like the Hawaiian pizza better without the pineapple.
Me: Just order a Canadian Bacon then.
Her: I don’t like Canadian Bacon, I prefer the Hawaiian Bacon.
Me: :eek: :smack:
It can’t originate from Australia. We didn’t have any modern type pizza places before Pizza Hut opened a store in 1970. Only traditional Italian style stuff from places in Italian neighborhoods before that. However in Australia all our pizzas are ordered by name not by choosing toppings. For example a Domino’s BBQ Meatlovers is *Rasher bacon, pepperoni, smoked leg ham, ground beef, Italian sausage & mozzarella on BBQ Sauce *. A Supreme is *Pepperoni, rasher bacon, capsicum, ground beef, Italian sausage, mushroom, pineapple, mozzarella & oregano *. Like the Hawaiin they are pretty standard fare at any suburban pizza place.
I remember before the internet my friends and I used to think the pizzas you saw in movies or on TV, with just slices of some sausage, were lame props, the food equivalent of the empty cup of coffee someone drinks on screen.
As if Hawaiian pizza isn’t enough of an abomination, that article links to this: Toast Hawaii - Wikipedia
It’s mixed in the U.S. whether you order pizza by a name or by ingredients. In general, pizza places have a menu with half a dozen to a dozen different pizzas, for which the menu specifies what is on the pizza. They also have a note below those named pizzas on the menu which gives a list of extra ingredients (which can include many of the things included in the named pizzas) with prices so you can ask to add them to your named pizza. You could also ask them to drop ingredients, I suppose, although I’ve never tried that. It’s typical of American buying habits to be picky about details like that.
I have found in my travels anything with pork and pineapple gets called a Hawaiian whatever. The word Hawaiian is usually spelled incorrectly.
A real Hawaiian pizza has kalua pig on it. No pineapple.
Same up here in Canada. I just ordered a “Tropical Chicken” pizza from Panago Pizza for dinner tonight. If I go out with friends to Boston Pizza, one of our favourites is “Boston Royal, hold the olives” (since my friends and I aren’t fond of olives but like the rest of the ingredients; in that context “hold” means omit). The menus say what ingredients those include. Or alternatively we could just list what ingredients we want although we never do.
Moved to Cafe Society.
Note this thread was started in 2005.
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As a dish or a weapon?
It’s better with actual shepard on top.
I prefer a shepardess on top. 