I have a lot of pity for anyone who would arbitrarily limit their culinary experiences with a dumb rule like “no warm fruit” - no baked apple, no clafoutis, no tarte Tatin, no hot rum banana…
You do you. The mixture of sweet and savoury has long been established as a popular favourite. It’s why plum sauce, cranberries in sugar with turkey, burger sauces or sweet and sour sauces are a thing.
I remember the mayor of Reykjavik making a bold stand against pineapple and making worldwide news. Though it’s nice to see pols grappling with the major issues, he gets a pass since he was (a) a gifted comedian, (b) living in a place where canned pineapple sells for fifteen dollars, © still probably dealing with the most contentious political issue in Iceland, (d) is from a place where fish liver oil is considered part of a good breakfast, and decaying shark is foisted on tourists.
If ever there were a place that should be warming their fruit before eating.
You think pineapple in pizza is bad?
How about Froot Loops?
Seems like we covered this before. Ah, yes, here is mine answer.
Hey, no shit. As if the rules I use for myself were in any way relevant to anyone else. That’s the whole joke of this pineapple on pizza thing. It’s the absurdity of it all.
I wonder how many people upset by pineapple on pizza put ketchup on hot dogs?
I do and I see no problem with it. Ketchup and hot dogs go together. There’s no comparison between that and pineapple on pizza.
Except that there is: they both are pairing a sweet element with a savory dish and both pairings are looked down upon by other people.
Except I don’t consider ketchup to be as sweet as pineapple. Ketchup has more of a savory taste to me.
So it’s a preference? Much like pineapple on pizza?
Of course it is. De gustibus non disputandum est - there’s no accounting for tastes.
My preference is against pineapple on pizza, because it’s a sweet and tart fruit on a salty dish. That simple. I don’t really like cheesecake either for the same reason.
It’s a preference. And to quote Abe Simpson: “What is it seems weird and scary to me.”
Who among us doesn’t like pineapple on their pizzas, or say a nice slice of peach on our nachos, or a whole ripe tomato on a scoop of ice cream?
Normal humans. That’s who.
Sure you don’t mean basics?
[prayer]Jesus, please send an asteroid. Thanks in advance.[/prayer]
True that pineapple doesn’t have the savory component that ketchup does, but ketchup, at least by weight, is sweeter than pineapple. Heinz ketchup appears to have 22g of sugar per 100g. A pineapple appears to have 10g of sugar per 100g. Even the one in heavy syrup works out to 20g per 100g. Ketchup is very sweet to my tastes, and is objectively sweet (meaning by the numbers), but it is balanced out by vinegar, I suppose. But pineapple’s sweetness is also tempered by its tartness.
Nah, just foodie snobs.
Actually, I don’t think they are foodies, I think that they are extremely conventional and unsettled by flavors they haven’t had a million times before.
I would actually think foodies would be more open to pineapple on pizza than non-foodies.