Η οποία αυτή η πίτσα πρωτοέγινε από Έλληνα, παρεμπιμπτόντως.
Sotirios Panopoulos was the man behind one of the world's most loved – and hated – pizzas, 'The Hawaiian,' a pizza topped with ham and, dare we say it, pineapple.
Born in Vourvoura, Greece, on 20 August 1934, Panopoulos emigrated to Canada aged 20, arriving in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Panopoulos owned the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ontario, with his brothers Elias and Nikitas.
Their menu initially featured typical American items such as burgers and fries as well as some American-Chinese dishes, such as Sweet and Sour Pork which mixes sweet and savoury flavours.
When pizzas started becoming popular in the US and Canada in the early 1960s, Panapoulos introduced pizzas to the menu after sampling one on a trip to Naples, the Italian pizza-making capital of the world.
In 1962, Panapoulos came up with the idea of adding canned pineapple to pizza.
His creation quickly became so very popular with his customers, yet so very offensive to a large portion of the world who will never understand what on earth a piece of fruit is doing on the top of a pizza.
In the face of criticism by many, Panopoulos told American media, "those days when I first came up with it, there was nothing to it… it was just another piece of bread cooking in the oven."
"Nobody liked it at first, but after that, they went crazy about it, because (in) those days nobody was mixing sweet and sour and all that. It was plain, plain food," he said.
