As a Italian-Polish person, I don't know how to feel..

Considering tomatoes aren't even from Europe the Italians can think whatever they want about pizza, they're not experts, they're just as wrong as everyone else.

And that's why, as a Midwesterner, I proudly put black olives on my tacos. And it's tastes pretty damn great!
- As a socal boy, you scare me
- Pickles are pickles, but personally, I like pickled watermelon
- I'm learning so many new things today 🫠
- Taco Bell used to put olives on some of their items way back in the day. I wonder if that’s where all this started.
- Power to you, don't let the food snobs stop you!
- This by far the worse crime here.
- As long as you aren't putting cheese or sour cream or using those hard shell things I guess it could pass
A plain slice in NY, maybe with some red pepper flakes and parmigiana. Fuckin bliss.
- NY style pizza also isn't anything particularly amazing. New Yorkers are just louder about it, like with everything they do.
- ....Red pepper flakes?
  I'm literally shaking right now
- NY pizza fucking sucks. You want real pizza, go to Chicago. Everyone knows deep dish is where it’s at.
  Yeah I said it. Fight me.
And ~~pasta~~ noodles are from china
- Asian noodles and italian pasta evolved independently. It's a myth that Marco Polo brought the recipe home.
It's not about being right, it's about making something that tastes good. Besides that, there are also well established cultural traditions. But as long as people call their ~~garbage~~ pizzas "NY pizza", or whatever and it's well distinguished by "Italian pizza" (or Neapolitan, etc.), I don't see the problem.

There's a lot of things to argue about, but pizza just isn't one of them. It's a chunk of bread with leftovers on it. If it tastes good on pizza, it belongs on pizza; and what tastes good on pizza depends on the tongue probing it.

Pineapple... sausage... anchovies... goat cheese... potato chips... a fucking strawberry slurpee - if you like it, you rock it.

The only wrong option is to abstain from making/ordering the pizza you want because that ingredient doesn't 'belong' there.

For what is worth, that's not how (most?) Italians think about pizza. It's not a "container" in which you put a bunch of things, but each pizza type is basically a separate dish.
I personally don't care what people put on their pizza, I simply avoid places that make "pizzas" in a non-italian fashion, like the american (supposedly NY style) ones where you get crust, 2 fingers of industrial cheese and a whole plant of oregano.
It's very similar for pasta, which many people think as a bread replacement.
- This is why their pizzas are so boring. One or two toppings. Come on, get creative with it, Guissepe.
Preach. My favorite pizza of the last few years is with sliced kebap meat with sauce hollandaise. Sounds disgusting, looks not that appetizing but it's fucking amazing.
That's cuz you never had a proper napolitan pizza you uncultured swine. You'd never open your mouth about pizza again, or call anything you can buy in your America a pizza.
- I'm gonna make a peanut butter and jelly pizza now just out of spite.

Imagine you couldn't try new things how stale or diet would be today.

I don't know. There are a lot of foods already out in the world.
- Now imagine we can only ever eat what the first humans ate
Obviously evey possible good food has already been invented
I'll stick to my mammoth steaks, thanks very much.
Real Italians refuse to use Tomatoes
We'd all still be drinking baby bottles.

I despise this traditional "that doesn't go on that dish" bullshit.

It was that way with the food where I'm from and well and now the new generation is doing whatever they want with those traditional recipes and making them modern and it's amazing. If you don't like pineapple on your pizza don't have it. But shut the fuck up with your "that's not a pizza". You sound like my great grandma

Edit: I'm from El Salvador and people used to freak out if you suggested that pupusas should have more variety than just pork, cheese and beans. They'd yell at you that it wasn't traditional. Now the young generation is making pupusas with chicken, fish, shrimp, sweet potato, zucchini, and so on, and it's amazing!

the worst is when people are like this for a dish that was invented as a way to use the shitty limited ingredients of the area because everyone was poor and that's all they had back then. That's not even tradition. Or slightly less annoying is when people try your traditional dish from the country your family comes from and say its not correct in some way, but they are from one of the 6 neighboring countries with pretty much the same food but the name is spelled slightly different and have regional plants as seasoning instead.
- That’s not even tradition.
  Ehhhh, you might not like most traditions then.

In Poland, some people put fruit juice in their beer (piwo z sokiem), and it is fucking delicious

Shandies are great. Radler is very refreshing
Fruity beer is also common in Belgium. It's not mixed with juice but is already flavored in the bottle as you buy it. And yes, it's delicious. Kriek for instance is a pretty famous cherry flavored beer.
Also non-alcaholic beer mixed with juice is a pretty decent drink after sports. The slight bitterness and the bubbles makes it really refreshing on hot days.
- It's not about a flavoured beer - there's plenty of em. This is about a concentrated form of juice you usually dilute in water. You put it into beer, it turns reddish-pink and a lot of people preffer to drink it that way
- Peche (peach-flavored lambic) and framboise (raspberry-flavored) are awesome, too. As expensive as wine but at least it has the same alcohol content as wine.
As a German I have to say that do this kind of regularly. But only with alcohol free wheat beer and grapefruit juice. Really great drink after sport or a long hike
Oh and rosé wine with maple syrup.
I've only tried wheat beer with banana juice, that was yummy
Well that’s just delicious. Beer is often well served by fruity flavors

Pizzas are just open-faced sandwiches. Anything you can put in a sandwich, you can put on a pizza.

To (controversially) go one step further, all unsweetened carbohydrate bases are interchangeable.
You can put pasta topping on a pizza, you can put pizza topping on rice, you can put toastie fillings on a potato waffle and it always ends up nice.
- You can do anything, and all of those are edible, but pizza topping on rice? Oh man...
Completely different dough in terms of consistency and taste. Bread and pizza are quite different, so many ingredients that work on pizza don't work on sandwiches and vice versa. Having said that, people can eat what they please.
This seems sounds this is a good metric on the surface, but let's try it out.
Corned beef on pizza? Sounds great. Sauerkraut? Uhh, ok, maybe. Mayonnaise? What the actual fuck...
- Got a friend who eats mayo on pizza. Trying to not be judgey, but I did gag a little just hearing it.
- Mayonnaise? What the actual fuck...
  Umm ok well...listen, now hear me out here
- Mayonnaise on pizza is surprisingly common in Finland, e.g one local pizzeria near me puts garlic mayo on certain pizzas – enough that there's more mayo than tomato sauce. For some incomprehensible reason they also put the mayo under the cheese. As you can guess, it was repulsive. However, BBQ sauce and bacon pizza is a nice combination, which is also normal here.
  Truffle mayo did work in some pizzas, in moderation.
- Mayonnaise? What the actual fuck...
  Psshhhh... Some places use mayonnaise-like substance instead of cheese to save money.
- Iowans love putting ranch dressing on pizza lol
- Sauerkraut on pizza is amazing. Come to Minnesota and go to Red's Savoy, it's great.
A Mediterranean Smörgåsbord. Anyone for pickled herring on their pizza.
So you're saying hotdog pizzas aren't really pizza?

Combining sweet and savory food to piss people off an age old tradition.

Has anyone asked the Polish if they’re ok?

Not since the 17th century.
- Holy shit lol

Pizza = Pita

Shame. Only shame.

Btw, carbonara with tuna and citrus juice is pretty good.

If my grandma had wheels she would have been a bike.
oh yes. Sprinkle in some minced durian and you've got my vote
So, not carbonara. Pasta with lemon is awesome, I also love pasta with tuna, both also work together, but it's not a carbonara.
Boxed mac and cheese with tuna is good

I’m Portuguese and I’ve seen that abomination here. I’m sorry, I thought it was contained. Now, have you guys heard about chocolate pizza for dessert?

I've been to the USA, I've seen dessert pizza.
- isn't that just pie with extra steps
Nutella is an Italian invention

one of the best condiments ive ever had was a jar of homemade pickled strawberries. the one who made it refuses to give up the recipe.

Kurwa

A handful of Germans are enjoying Nutella spaghetti. The hot spaghetti melt the Nutella into a sort of chocolate sauce.

I actually don't mind pineapple on pizza, but let me say that after reading this post I understand the haters if this is how they see it

I only know pasta with sugar and:

blueberries
cinnamon (+butter)

Embrace the paradox: «è un schifo ale lubię to».

I don't know if this is a real thing, but it makes me want to cry.

Pineapple banana pizza with pannacotta.

If it's not baked that actually sounds delicious.

I don't think its the same than combining a sweet fruit with tomato sauce and cheese.

Pasta by itself is basically neutral in taste. You can easily make them into a sweet dish. I sometimes like to eat them with applesauce.

Just to clarify, I wouldn't order or make pizza with pineapple for myself, but I don't think it's that big of a deal people sometimes make it.
Just eat what you like and don't force your taste on others.

Yeah I once lived with a family in Eastern Europe who would sometimes make dessert ravioli by filling it with fruit and sugar and dusting it with powdered sugar. It was obviously a very different dish than savory pasta but really good actually.
- I will go out on a limb here and guess those were not ravioli and some form of pelmeni instead? There are types of them that are usually eaten with sour cream and jam. But the dough used is quite different from the ravioli one, and the filling is cheese (not meat or ricotta/spinach).
  Was that the case?
Pasta by itself is basically neutral in taste. You can easily make them into a sweet dish. I sometimes like to eat them with applesauce.
Please explain yourself. You can't just say this like it's normal and morally/ethically acceptable.
- What is there to explain? If you don't add any savory ingredients to pasta it is not salty or savory in taste.
  Same as you can prepare rice savory or sweet as rice pudding or something.
  You do know "pasta" just means the noodle, right? It's still pasta if you don't add anything?
  There are lots of sweet pasta dishes in the world like sweet kugel or milk noodles.
  I just add (cold) applesauce onto (warm) noodles and eat it. If I'm fancy, I make applesauce from fresh apples.
  Also, look up portugese Aletria. That's angle hair pasta as it's best.
Pasta is egg and flour. Cake is egg and flour. Society has decided that egg and flour has to be maked in a particular shape and cooked in a particular way to have strawberries with it.
See, the problem is that pizza often gets shared, and these barbarians will order it with pineapple physically on it, like put right on a perfectly good ham pizza, so then you have to pull the pineapple off, let the dog lick the pineapple juice from the pineapple holes, and then you can eat it, but you still can taste the lingering traces of a fruit that should, by all the laws of man and god, be used exclusively in deserts.
It's an affront against nature and pizza.
Downvote away, but you know deep in your heart of hearts that I'm right.
- Dude. Your problem is not the pineapple, but that you are apparently surrounded by inconsiderate people.
  If you get pizza or any food to share, you should make sure you choose a topping everyone is okay with. If necessary make it half pineapple half pepperoni or whatever.
  If you order for a group of people and choose something that is controversial without checking back, you're an asshole.

Ok I didn't know this existed and now I want to make it lol.

Anyone had kluski z serem?

It's really good!

The obligatory article is not as good:
How To Pronounce Makaron Z Serem?
Makaron z serem is pronounced ma-kah-ron z seh-rehm.
Very enlightening
My Romanian grandmother use to make this with feta cheese. It was delicious
- I think the only time I've had feta cheese is in lasagna.

I spent some time in Poland. I ate so much. I miss Krakow.

Sweet like Filipino spaghetti I imagine

Are you being forced to eat it? If not I’d say stop giving a fuck so hard about what other people like or how they live their lives by things that shouldn’t affect you. You can’t control them. Live and let live. That’s the feel.

And if you’re still not satisfied and have the burning desire to feel outraged, Find something for real to be outrageous about. Like current wars or stupid candidates or fixing up dumb city laws that hurt innocent citizens. Go to a rally to defend some human rights or something like that. Get juicy with your rage.

Are you ok?? Is everything fine ?