Pineapple is fine on a pizza, but it’s not a normal go-to for me. I’ve found it pairs way better with spicy salty pepperoni than with the typical, boring Canadian bacon.
I’d try that. Dunno if I’d try it a second time.
No, but if you were arranging a $15,000 function at a Chinese restaurant, and the guest of honor REALLY wanted nachos with his fried tripe and peking duck and dragon & phoenix, you’d work with the restaurant, and they would serve a dish of nachos. It’s not rocket science.
The more so if all he wanted was one arguably distasteful ingredient on top of an existing chinese dish.
Heck, the original article from the OP had the owner talking about them having to go out and buy-in the pineapple pizza from some other restaurant for that special $15K shindig. And that was still anathema to our prima donna, and now ex-, chef.
As said by others above, clearly the pineapple bit is a click bait hook for the article, and for the chef’s unemployment / wrongful termination claim. The reality of the total (un-)employment situation was surely bigger and more complex and about many larger things.
I did the same thing, but in the opposite order
You ate something you dislike for several years that you then decided to mock. Why eat if if you don’t like it?
I think they meant they tried it and spent several years afterwards mocking it.