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I wonder where does this bitterness against pineapple on pizza comes from. Maybe it's just media fabricated, but pineapple has and enzyme called bromelain which will destroy the gluten. Sometimes I wonder if maybe a pizzaiolo left an uncook pizza on the bench and found it with holes in it, but I don't know how fast those enzymes work on the protein as I never tried it.

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Nowhere near fast enough. It's actually a perfectly ordinary flavor combination. There's no fundamental problem that needs to be explained.

It's just a meme. "Hawaiian" pizza was invented in the 1960s. It had the right combination of popularity and unfamiliarity to become a meme. Once it becomes a meme, it feeds on itself: people talk about it just because other people are talking about it, rather than because they actually care all that much.

Typically there is tomato sauce on the dough and the pineapple goes on top of that.

I would put this down to savory/sweet dichotomy zealotry

But even this doesn't make sense. Nobody has a problem with pears being on top of a neapolitan pizza.

Funny that you mention tomatoes because they are not native to Italy and probably just fine for our culturally sensitive chef

The fact is, food gets better when it travels. Pizza is global and people will do whatever the hell they want with it.

Having been to Italy and seen abominations like pizza with a topping of French fries (I have the photos to prove it), I think complaining about pineapple is a little rich.

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