Pizza topping is a viral ‘abomination’
THERE are just some things that shouldn’t be on a pizza, and according to foodies from around the world, kiwifruit is one of them.
Just like pineapple, pizza lovers have a strong stance on the worthiness of kiwifruit to be a topping.
A heated debate started when a tourist visiting Denmark uploaded a photo showing slices of the green fruit covering the top of a tomatobase pizza.
The caption read: “Kiwi pizza from a Danish pizzeria, an unholy abomination.”
The Reddit post quickly went viral, with hundreds of people weighing in on the controversial topping.
The pizza appeared to have the standard ingredients of ham and cheese, but it also had slices of the edible green berry placed on top.
“That’s an abomination for sure too. It’s OK. There’s a pineapple pizza section in hell,” one person wrote on the Reddit post.
“I think I just went blind,” a second person commented.
“This makes me unreasonably angry,” another shocked user wrote.
But not everyone hates pineapple on pizza, and those same people have supported the right of kiwifruit to appear on the popular dish.
“If pineapple goes great on a pizza then I would not mind tasting pizza with kiwi. I would not mind at all,” one supporter wrote.
“I could almost taste the combined flavours of the cheese and kiwi – its saltiness and its sweetness and tartness respectively. Like it could be a good flavour combination much like that of cheese and grapes or berries,” said another user.
A third person agreed, adding: “Yeah I’m curious if it would taste as how I am imagining it, which isn’t too terrible, I suppose.”
People have strong views when it comes to pizza – in fact, back in 2017 Iceland’s president was forced to apologise for suggesting he would like to ban pineapple on pizza, admitting the comments
“went too far”.
Gudni Johannesson sparked international headlines in February 2017 when a student asked for his thoughts on the controversial pizza topping during a school visit.
Mr Johannesson, who was elected in 2016 and is a hugely popular figure in Iceland for his laid-back leadership style, replied that he was “fundamentally opposed” to it and would like to ban it.
“I like pineapples, just not on pizza,” he later wrote on Facebook.
Canadians were particularly upset about the comments – Ontario restaurateur Sam Panopoulos claimed to have invented the Hawaiian pizza in 1962.