Odd hill to die on.
That the best kind!
To be fair cantaloupe and prosciutto is way better than pineapple on pizza has ever been (this is not opinion this is fact)
Opinion that bot you banned
Crusades have been launched over pettier disagreements.
He was just a fucking kid!
This underlines my biggest issue with italian cuisine. There are so many chefs that leave no room for innovation or updates to a traditional recipies. I’ll put cream in my carbonara and pineapple on my pizza because I like the taste of it. And those preferences should be more important than the old traditions when it comes to making foods I want to enjoy.
It’s all good, just as long as you don’t break your spaghetti before putting it in the pot…
And Italy also invented fascism, so I’m not sure I’ll follow their judgement on pineapples…
Personally, I wouldn’t care what a customer ordered on their pizza, they could order the worst possible combination of flavours, and I’d happily make it for them, what’s the big deal? It wouldn’t hurt me, or anyone else.
This miscarriage of justice should go all the way to the ECHR.
The European Culinary Heresy Revisionists?
NOBODY expects the European Culinary Heresy Revisionists!
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Wait until Italians and Pseudo-Italian Americans find out about Durian pizza. They’ll be begging for pineapple.
Critics and first-time smellers often describe the odor as resembling sewage, rotten eggs, raw onions, garlic, old gym socks, or hot garbage. Fans, however, may perceive subtle sweet or floral undertones.
It’s also banned from hotels and public transport where it grows natively.
It’s called the King of Fruits for a reason.
Very high in micronutrients and calories. Taste really good.
My own perception of the durian’s aroma is of a toddler’s full diaper mixed with a splash of kerosene. I’m the type who tries almost anything once, and so I tasted durian when it was offered to me, and it has a wonderful, complex flavor.
For those who are more squeamish, there’s always jackfruit.
I just don’t understand this and am beginning to wonder if it’s one of those “can smell asparagus in pee” sort of phenomena, because while clearly an unpleasant smell, I have never got the extreme comparisons to sewage and shit. It’s not a nice smell but it’s just nowhere near as disgusting to me as people make it out to be.
I find jackfruit to be always disappointing. I don’t know what I’m expecting, but I want more from it.
I’ve had it when its plain and meh, and I’ve had a chef marinade it and batter/bread it like is crisoy chicken and it was amazing
Damn, I bet that smells feisty.
Durian is a war crime in a food fight. It’s effective as both a melee and chemical weapon.
I seriously don’t get it. I traveled all over SE Asia and sure, Durian doesn’t exactly smell like roses, but it’s not THAT bad. Also it tastes like weird fruit bubblegum.
what is this unholy abomination. please tell me this isn’t real.
It’s a fruit. The peel smells “not super”, but the fruit itself is a very complex interesting flavor that you can get hooked on.
It’s malaysian. Those guys love their durian.
Even the branding, most malaysian (filo?) thing ever.
I would love to try this! Durian might actually fit nicely
I’d go for durian, gorgonzola and fresh basil.
Funny as this is, the guy is def both stupid and an asshole
I hope he also refuses to put tomatoes on pizza, because they’re a new world plant and non-native to Europe and Italy. What a fart sniffing jackhole.
Tomatoes are fruit! D-:
So are eggplants, but they’re used as vegetables in a culinary context.
I just shove them up my girlfriends muff, we have a wide assortment of fruits and vegetables for this purpose, and none of us have the faintest idea about botanical taxonomy.
Its just a job. You dont have to fuck the pineapples, just work with them.
I take two giant pineapple rings and sandwich a piece of pizza in between and eat it like a juicy sandwich.
Fucking pineapples is both challenging and painful. I’d rather have it on a pizza. Only just, though.
That’s only with fresh pineapple though. If they’re from a can they have conveniently placed holes
I understand that guy perfectly.
Pizza is not really Italian. A lot of cultures have invented flatbread that you top with stuff before baking. It just happens that the Italian version of that got spread around widely. And then other cultures added their own flairs, one of which is pineapple, usually connected with a salty pork product like ham or Canadian bacon.
Here in California, that’s called Hawaiian style pizza, and I didn’t get it, myself, until I tried it and found it’s a pairing that works, usually with extra mozzarella cheese.
I don’t know that it’s actually Hawaiian even in style, though my wife’s family used to like going to Hawaiian-style fast food, which involves a lot of Spam (the Hormell kind), so there… may be a connection?
My parents’ generation, in the 1970s way dug anchovies on pizza which I found way too salty. I didn’t get it then, but I don’t see much in the way of anchovies on pizza now. So collective tastes may change with time.
Anchovies are spectacular sources of umami. I use them in tomato sauces, among other things. You don’t taste the fish at all, you just get a nice round salty flavor out of them, and they just dissolve in the sauce.
My parents’ generation, in the 1970s way dug anchovies on pizza which I found way too salty. I didn’t get it then, but I don’t see much in the way of anchovies on pizza now. So collective tastes may change with time.
That makes me kinda sad. I’m definitely nowhere near that generation but I love anchovies on pizza, and people not ordering anchovies on pizza just makes it harder to find places that still offer anchovies. I think it’s the best pizza topping. Although I also don’t mind Hawaiian style pizza separately either.
Pizza is not really Italian.
It is Italian, but it’s not exclusively Italian. Turkish lahmacun (thin base, with a meaty sauce, is a good approximation of the Ur-Pizza, as are various Levantine flatbreads. One of my favorites is manaqish ma’a za’atar, which is a thin pizza-like base topped with olive oil and thyme.
Ur-pizzas would be from Ur, not the Levant.
Toasted flatbread topped with olive oil and thyme sounds delightful!
I don’t know that it’s actually Hawaiian even in style
It’s not–Hawaiian pizza was invented in Canada IIRC.
It’s weird. I’m at an age where I wouldn’t mind to try out anchovies on pizza, but it’s become so out-of-style that either pizza places don’t carry it any more, or people are so repulsed by it that it’s hard to order with others sharing.
Meanwhile, I’ve always loved pineapple on pizza, and that one seemed to have stuck around as a topping longer.
Anchovies work. Try with just tomato sauce and cheese, onions and olives. It’s a complex, mature type of taste. Maybe sun dried tomatoes. But it depends a lot on who’s cooking it if you know what I mean.
You know how kids all go crazy about candy? That’s because of how their taste buds work when they’re kids. When you get older, these funky tastes get more like candy to us. Very rich flavors.
Anchovies on pizza are fantastic, especially in some Italian thin crust, say with black olives, onions, capers, artichoke…
The problem is that people use them as an ingredient, where they should be used as a seasoning, sparingly.
Then don’t work for the fucking restaurant that sells pineapples on pizza.
None of this is that difficult.
I hate pineapple pizza but this chef missed what cooking is about: satisfaction. And if pineapple pizza satisfies someone out there, it’s the chef’s duty to do it.
I see you aren’t a chef. Culinary arts is a chef’s expression. Any chef with self-respect can refuse what they consider culinary blasphemy.
It’s a restaurant not a church.
Dude was a working cook at a pizza place, not the head chef and partner at a fine dining restaurant.
Oh, for fucks sake! No, my friend, as part of the hospitality sector, your OBLIGATION is to make people enjoy their meal, stay, whatever. It’s the ONLY REASON FOR THE EXISTENCE OF YOUR JOB. Also, I’m fucking tired of the whole chef worship. You are a fucking craftsman, not an artist. You are not a brain surgeon, a rocket scientist, Picasso. You just found a way to make pea foam taste like lobster or some other little TRICK.
I’ve owned a restaurant, BTW, and the first thing I drilled into my employees when they came on board was that their job was to make the customers day better.
If a customer, who pays your fucking salary, wants pickles on ice cream, you give them pickles.
It’s not that simple. What if the chef is Saudi and the customer asks for bacon and he refuses because it’s against his religion to use pork? Would that be an acceptable reason for refusing or would he have to violate his beliefs because some idiot wants something?
You can kind of guess my views on this by my “I shit on the cross”, but:
I don’t think whatever religion you follow is a good excuse to force your views on the others. So in that situation I’d understand if:
- the chef refused to work in a restaurant because it serves bacon, because he’s still choosing it for himself, not for the others.
- they refused because that restaurant serves no bacon (e.g. a restaurant marketed for Muslims), because that would be equivalent to asking an oil painter to sculpt on marble
But if the restaurant serves bacon, and the chef works there, it’s the chef’s responsibility to give the client bacon, to the best of their capabilities.
And before another poster babbles about “art” again: an artist is a servant of the people. Artists who see themselves as leaders are full of shit.
Some “idiot” wants something… that’s on the menu?
It’s not that simple. What if the pharmacist is Catholic and the customer asks for birth control and he refuses because it’s against his religion to use birth control? Would that be an acceptable reason for refusing or would he have to violate his beliefs because some idiot wants something?
See how this works?
How about some other stuff member do that, not forcing and fireing the ona who can’t?
Sounds great until the other chefs are out sick and some “idiot” (again, your words) orders something on the menu.
Having principles can be tough, but the time to exercise them is when choosing a job in the first place.
There’s no art if there isn’t an audience. At most there’s someone playing with clay, letters, paint… or food. And my mother taught me to not play with food.
Blasphemy? I shit on the cross.
The LinkedIn profile states he now works at another Brisbane restaurant. A BBC check has found that pineapple is not on its menu.
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