Do you like pineapples on your pizza? The style is known as a Hawaiian pizza, and it’s a polarizing topic. For example, the former president of Iceland joked that he’d ban pineapples on pizza if he could.
When I lived in New York City, I searched far and wide before finding a half decent restaurant that served Hawaiian pizzas. I used my eyes. I knew better than to ask.
The first restaurateur to introduce Hawaiian pizza wasn’t from Italy or Hawaii. Sam Panopoulos was from Greece, and he immigrated to Canada. He didn’t even run a pizza parlor. He put pineapples on pizza because he was inspired by the sweet and sour flavors of Chinese food.