Norwich restaurant charges £100 for a pineapple pizza
A pizzeria is asking its customers to put their dough where their mouth is if they want to eat a Hawaiian – charging £100 for a ham and pineapple-topped pizza.
The owners and staff of Lupa pizza in Norwich are so revolted by the Hawaiian that they have reluctantly added the topping to their delivery menu but only with the eye-watering price tag.
“I absolutely loathe pineapple on a pizza,” said the restaurant’s co-owner Francis Woolf. The head chef, Quin Jianoran, agreed, adding: “I love a pina colada, but pineapple on pizza? Never. I’d rather put a bloody strawberry on one than that tropical menace.”
In 2017, YouGov conducted polling over the Hawaiian pizza. It found that while 84% of Britons said they liked pizza, and 82% liked pineapple, only 53% said that they liked pineapple on pizza. More than four in 10 Britons (41%) said they disliked pineapple on pizza.
The invention of the Hawaiian pizza is often credited to Sam Panopoulos, who emigrated from Greece to Canada in 1954 at the age of 20 and ran several restaurants in Ontario with his two brothers.
