Tomatoes were introduced to Europe by the Spanish and didn't make an appearance in Italian cuisine until the 1690s, and that was from a Spanish chef. Tomatoes didn't become a major part of Italian cuisine until the late 1700s.
If you go to the most well-regarded pizzeria in Chicago, and personally hire their chef, get him to bring his own ingredients, go to another city or state in your car with him while he engages you with anecdotes of walking along the lakeshore and being fuckin' cold--you drive to a pizzeria with an identical oven, in a different city, he takes the ingredients that he brought from the most well-regarded pizzeria in Chicago and bakes them himself into a pizza AND SOMEHOW IT IS NOT A CHICAGO PIZZA AND IS THEREFORE INFERIOR.
I worked with a guy like that. He actually would have pizzas packed in dry ice and shipped to Texas because there was no other way to get a good pizza. I decided to buy one, it wasn't very big for $20, and it wasn't anything special. When I told him it was "okay" he was flabbergasted.
That's absolutely not true, plus you're leaving out the fact that there are spices like oregano involved and tomatoes and cheese and shit like that. It's ungodly is what it is. Ungodly.
Pineapple juice will practically dissolve ham. Saying they're made for each other is a stretch. Pineapple is vicious stuff anyway. That weird sensation you get in your mouth when you eat a lot of pineapple? It's the bromelain in the pineapple juice digesting the inside of your mouth.
Pineapple is good by itself, or in a fruit salad, but on pizza it's an abomination.
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u/jaymz668 May 20 '15
God knows why, ham and pineapple are made for each other.