But can you even define "clickbait?" does it even exist at all?

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Pen Pineapple Apple Pen

Usually it's East coast white dudes who complain about pineapple on a pizza

Actually it’s basically how to get a majority of young women to let you buy them food.

They call it a meme any more.

Also, never agree to 1/2 pineapple pizza. There is no such thing.

Why does pizza have to be such a weird YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG thing?

How about "oh that's gross. Not for me." Like cilantro for lots of people.

I despise eggplant. And watermelon. And yes, I know hating those innocuous things is strange, but my palate is mine and I can't control it.

It's like gay marriage. If you don't want to get gay married, don't get gay married.

If you don't like pineapple on pizza DON'T ORDER PINEAPPLE ON PIZZA. Problem solved.

Personally I think pineapple should be blended with alcoholic beverages and ice. And/or ice cream. But on pizza ... well, as long as it also has ham and spicy sausage and lots of onions, then maybe. But preferably in a glass with booze. Any booze. 2 Towns Pineapple Cider is awesome.

@1:

Well, you responded, so apparently it's working...

Pizza is one of the most highly adaptable of comestibles - there's really nothing you can put on it that doesn't seem to work for someone's palate, and it's not like we top ours with corn or mayonnaise or squid, like the Japanese do; but they enjoy it, so what's the big deal? Besides, Italians would consider most of what we pile on a pizza as not being traditional anyway, so seriously what's one more item on the list?

Pineapple on pizza is objectively good. I sentence you do put mayo on everything for 6 days.

I have eaten Pizza Hawaii many times in Europe. It's not just an American thing.

My theory is based on the flavor wheel.

It's well known that the 'Western'/European food palate tends to "load" flavors on the same areas of the flavor wheel (like ice cream with sprinkles, cherries, hot fudge, bananans == all sweet, very little flavor difference. Or hamburger with 6 cheeses... o_O, talk about redundant!)

Whereas the south Asian/Indian food palate tends to bring in flavors from very different areas of the food wheel in the same meal: potatoes + chutney + pepper + yogurt + pickle. Etc.

I think pineapple pizza is a Western push towards the Indian palate... pairing savory with sweet. Salt with tangy/sour.

Anyway, who cares what other people eat? As long as it's not causing some sort of global illness pandemic, or depleting the supply of pineapples for your poncy Pineapple Upside Down Cakes.... then, wtf?

Not my jam, but not terrible.

First world problems

Hawaiian pizza was invented in Canada (where it is popular) by a Greek man taking inspiration from Chinese cooking.

Pineapple and jalapeno pizza is one of my favorite indulgences. It's heavenly.

I love pizza. I love pineapple.

But pineapple on a pizza is an abomination. It is wrong. Awful. These two things do not go together. I will happily eat either separately, but never ever combined. Ugh!

Some people like it.
Get over it.

"... there was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge."

What, just One? Out of all that fine Mess?
OMG, Charles, we're not Alone.

Who's hearing this Story?
About the Unholiness of pineapple pizza....

Beam me the fuck UP, Scottie.

@15 I'm usually a slice of cheese only purest but I'd fuck with that.

Pineapple is great on pizza, just need to make sure you have a spicy meat (pepperoni or chorizo) and add jalapenos.

While I don't care for this pizza combination, I can't understand why its existence bothers so many people. But then I don't understand why so many people are crazy about dogs. I think they are as annoying as hell.

I only had to read the headline to know that this was a Mudede rant. However, you're totally right, Charles. Pineapple on pizza is something I have never understood either. I put sweetcorn on pizza, like everyone in Britain does, and Americans look at me like I look at their pineapple.

I recently discovered while watching the show Back in Time for Dinner, that the ham and pineapple pizza was invented in Ontario in 1962 by a Greek immigrant named Sam Panopoulos. He died just last year. And now I love it EVEN MORE.

Now that I know it's a Canadian thing I mean. Not now that I know the inventor is dead.
To be clear.

Note to editor: the neural net which replaced Mudede (damn budget cuts) has produced a disappointingly conventional article today. Did someone accidentally train it on a bunch of Andy Rooney transcripts?

This is a great parody of Chuck's writing. Kudos to whoever penned it!

It's all about taste, of course, I mean, like, say, the duck egg pizza at Serious Pie, not for me, but I bet it's a darn good duck egg pie,,,to each their own and so forth, which of course, Charles knows all too well,,,,,21st Century thing, ya wanna get hits on a blog post, talk about pineapple on pizza....For me, early Seventies Pugetopolis Pizza Haven or Shakey's Canadian bacon and pineapple (right out of the can), not some fancy hammy hammy ham ham and fershy fresh tropical pineapples flown in by drones....from a week ago, here are the top 15 joints in Brooklyn for ham and pineapple pies,,,https://foursquare.com/top-places/brooklyn/best-places-hawaiian-pizza

Think of a ham (essentially Canadian bacon)... Decorated with pineapple rings. It's not such a stretch. Though I can see how it may be a challenge for you chuck.

@2 - My 11 year old grandchildren still sing that song.

Why do I suddenly have a flashback of Cher, in a scene from The Witches of Eastwick, asking Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer what the three of them were doing together the previous Thursday evening, and Susan and Michelle answer in unison: "Chinese aphrodisiac cooking"----?