# Why the vehement opposition to pineapple on pizza? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [February 27, 2021, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875 "2021-02-27T07:55:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875/41 "2021-02-27T15:10:25Z")
Do you put other kinds of fruit on pizza? Raspberries? Raisins? Chunks of melon? Didn’t think so. So why on earth would you put pineapple on pizza. (And yes, I know that certain pizza toppings, like peppers and tomatoes, are botanically fruit. They don’t taste fruity and they’re not used as fruit.) ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875/42 "2021-02-27T15:12:59Z")
I love chicken, and i like pizza well enough, but I’ve never liked chicken on pizza. I think it gets too dry. I dunno, not for me. And i don’t generally like sweet and salty. I hate the trend to salt caramel, for instance. But i really like Hawaiian pizza. Preferably with nice thick slices of ham, although bacon and Canadian bacon are okay I think it’s because pineapple is sour that i like it. It just tastes so perky. I can’t eat spicy foods, and i think i enjoy sour the way some people like spicy. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875/43 "2021-02-27T15:13:04Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Do you put other kinds of fruit on pizza? Raspberries? Raisins? Chunks of melon? I don’t put salmon on my pizza but I’m okay with the idea of anchovies. Plus, I don’t think raspberries and melon cook real well. Pineapple has a structure that holds up to cooking. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875/44 "2021-02-27T15:14:20Z")
Apple cooks well. I’ve never had apple on a pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875/45 "2021-02-27T15:16:41Z")
Unless it’s a PINEapple! Ehh? Ehh? Get it? Don’t ask me; I’m not a pizza chef. I don’t think cooked apple is great unless it’s slathered in additional goop (or baked into something) that I don’t think would be great on a pizza. Otherwise, it’s pretty dry (but pineapple isn’t). Which makes cooked apple (in goop) fine for dessert applications but maybe not great on pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875/46 "2021-02-27T15:17:01Z")
Wow, different people like different things. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875/47 "2021-02-27T15:19:08Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Is it that they don’t like sweet toppings on what ought to be a salty food? This is it exactly for me. I do not care for the combination of sweet and meat. Personal taste, I’m not as rabid as some on this. Pile pineapple all over your savory pizza if you like, just don’t put it on mine, please. Pineapple is fine with me in sweet dishes or on its own merits, but not on a savory item. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875/48 "2021-02-27T15:24:20Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > I do not care for the combination of sweet and meat. Yeah, pretty much this. For me, “fruity” and “meaty” don’t go together. I don’t want pineapple on ham, either, for example. As for why the vehement opposition—well, some food combinations just seem comically inappropriate (like chocolate syrup on, well, pizza, or lots of other things). Pineapple on pizza is one of those things that seems like a comically inappropriate combination to some of us, but a significant number of people actually do choose to eat it. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875/49 "2021-02-27T15:25:47Z")
You are convincing me i shouldn’t like pineapple on pizza. I don’t like Chinese sweet and sour dishes. I don’t like duck l’orange I don’t like tomato sauce that’s too sweet And yet…i really do like pineapple on pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875/50 "2021-02-27T15:30:08Z")
I can’t count the number of favorite foods I would miss if chefs stuck to some sort of weird “don’t mix savory/salty and sweet” rule. I’m eating chicken and waffles as I type this. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875/51 "2021-02-27T15:31:16Z")
I like all styles of pizza—Neapolitan, New York, California … I love a ham and pineapple pizza. I also like an anchovy pizza I let baffles me why people get so worked up over toppings ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875/52 "2021-02-27T15:32:47Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > I proudly proclaim my love for both BBQ chicken pizza and pizza with pineapple. > > Fie on the naysayers. Fie, I say! ^^ This. So very much this. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875/53 "2021-02-27T15:35:38Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Back on point, I say meh, it’s like people who put raisins in savory hot dishes, I wonder what the thinking process was but to each his own. I Mmmmm, Moroccan stew with prunes, absolutely delicious. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875/54 "2021-02-27T15:42:03Z")
I’m highly sweet adverse but I do like a pineapple, cured pork (pepperoni, ham, bacon tho I’ve not tried that one) and jalapeno pie. Anchovy would probably be good subbed for the pork. BBQ is just a hair too sweet but I like having one square when we (used to) get pizzas at work. Square cut for life! > [@puzzlegal](#): > > I love chicken, and i like pizza well enough, but I’ve never liked chicken on pizza. I just think chicken isn’t assertive enough. It’s a wasted topping. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875/55 "2021-02-27T15:44:35Z")
If it makes you happy, by all means put what you want on pizza. Pineapple, sweet potato, graham crackers, cocker spaniel meat - go for it. I don’t particularly like the idea of sweet gooshy fruit on a pizza, but whatever. It just occurred to me - all those people who insist on the rarest of rare steak but happily eat pizza with well-cooked beef topping. How do they _stand_ it? ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875/56 "2021-02-27T15:51:10Z")
It’s a different cut of meat obviously. Are you also baffled by people who like rare steak and beef stew or brisket? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875/57 "2021-02-27T15:51:21Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I also prefer pepperoni and sometimes bacon to ham with my pineapple, because the ham is too bland to be a good match for the strong flavor of the pineapple. Bingo. Also, I’ll put Buffalo’s pizza up against anything I’ve had in NYC. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875/58 "2021-02-27T16:01:24Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > It just occurred to me - all those people who insist on the rarest of rare steak but happily eat pizza with well-cooked beef topping. How do they _stand_ it? I prefer steak in the medium range myself, but cannot abide the texture of underdone ground meat (beef, pork, etc.). ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875/59 "2021-02-27T16:01:43Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > Combine that with number of people who don’t like anchovies Anchovies was what came to mind as the ideal comparison. I was thinking anchovies on salad, to compare to pineapple on pizza. In both cases, the addition _really_ changes the experience of eating the fundamental food. The additions have a strong and distinctive taste (esp. against the backdrop of what they’re being added to) and lots of folks react with “that doesn’t belong there!” ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875/60 "2021-02-27T16:02:44Z")
My wife & daughter in law love pineapple on pizza. My son and I both do not. For me, pineapple on pizza tastes as bad as what I perceive the taste of ice cream on a Tbone steak would be like. For me, they simply do not belong together. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-vehement-opposition-to-pineapple-on-pizza/933875.md?page=4)