A Norwich restaurant has began charging punters £100 for ham and pineapple pizza in protest on the controversial dish.
House owners and workers at Lupa Pizza within the cathedral metropolis have, regardless of their disgust, added the topping to their supply menu – however solely with the eye-watering price ticket.
"Yeah, for £100 you may have it. Order the Champagne too! Go on you monster!" an outline on the pizzeria's menu reads.
And Lupa co-owner Francis Woolf is simply as scathing.
"I completely detest pineapple on a pizza," he mentioned.
Whereas head chef Quin Jianoran mentioned: "I really like a Pina Colada, however pineapple on pizza? By no means. I'd reasonably put a bloody strawberry on one than that tropical menace."
A 2017 YouGov ballot on Hawaiian pizza discovered that 53 per cent of Britons had been eager on the topping – leagues under the 84 per cent who mentioned they favored pizza usually, and the 82 who favored pineapple.
In the meantime, as many as 41 per cent of these surveyed mentioned they actively disliked pineapple on pizza.
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The invention of the Hawaiian pizza is commonly credited to restaurant proprietor Sam Panopoulos, who moved to Canda from Greece within the Nineteen Fifties.
Panopoulos began including pineapple to his pizzas within the Sixties – simply after Hawaii joined america in 1959 – and is believed to have named the dish a "Hawaiian" after the model of tinned pineapple he used.
"We simply put it on, only for the enjoyable of it, see the way it was going to style," he instructed the BBC, shortly earlier than his loss of life.
In 2017, the president of Iceland was pressured to confess that he had no plans to formally ban the topping after telling highschool college students that he was "essentially opposed" to the dish.
However over in Italy, some cooks aren't as dismissive.
One restaurant, Neapolitan-run Uao Pizza in Turin, launched a limited-edition pizza named "PineNaples" for a month – however clients loved it a lot, it's now a everlasting fixture.
In a contemporary twist on the divisive basic, the PineNaples boasts a pineapple cream base – topped with mozzarella, ham and flaked salted ricotta.