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There isn’t a single pizza topping that’s more divisive than pineapple, and there are plenty of places that refuse to offer it as an option. That’s not the case with one restaurant in the United Kingdom, although you’ll have to shell out a triple-digit sum if you’re looking to get your fix.
There’s no way to know who was the first person who decided to throw pineapple chunks on a pizza, but Sam Panopoulos is widely credited with being the innovator who initially championed that particular topping when he created the Hawaiian pie that also featured bacon and ham at an eatery in Ontario in the early 1960s.
You’d be hard-pressed to find many people who have an ambivalent stance when it comes to their feelings about pineapple as a pizza topping, and that particular topic has been at the center of countless online debates as well as at least one presidential election when you consider Iceland’s Guðni Th. Jóhannesson jokingly said he’d ban it if he received enough of the youth vote.
In 2017, one woman went viral after posting a picture of a $5 bill she received along with a note from the cook at a pizza place that couldn’t bear to honor her request to add pineapple, and I personally know at least a couple of ornery Italian-Americans who operate their own establishments in Brooklyn who would tell you to leave their shop if you asked for it.
According to CNN, Lupa Pizza in Norwich, England technically offers pineapple pizza on a menu where a regular pie will set you back around $12, but they’ve opted to charge a whopping £100 (~$122) for the Hawaiian pizza that’s accompanied by a message that reads “Yeah, for £100 you can have it. Order the champagne too! Go on you Monster!” on its menu.
The outlet spoke to Quin Jianoran, the head chef at the restaurant, who said “We’re just taking a stance” and noted no one has been willing to pull the trigger on the pricy pizza that’s garnered plenty of attention since making the rounds online.
Respect.