What are the best topics to blog about? Exactly, the extremely controversial ones. So let's discuss the three most controversial topics I can possibly think of:
But first I'll tell you a little about myself. I am Australian from Greek ansestry, I am patriotic and I love both of my countries. Okay, now let's get controversial:
Pineapple does belong on pizza. There are many possible origins of pineapple pizza, but the most generally agreed one is that Sam Panopoulis, a Greek immigrant living in Canada who owned a take away shop in Ontario decided to put pineapple on his pizza. Now let's discuss the origin of pizza. Before pizza was known as the Italian dish that it is today, the Ancient Greeks had their very own type of food called plakous. Plakous was considered the "food of the gods". So what is plakous you might be asking. Plakous was a flat bread, which had many toppings on top of it. So in other words, ancient pizza, or rather, the to predecessor to it. When a culture claims a certain type of food, there is generally one type of that food, there will usually be different variations of it, with different recipes. For example, a different Greek food is spanakopita.
Spanakopita is a spinach "pie" which consists of spinach and various other green vegetables and herbs. For example, some people decide to include dill in their spanokopites, whilst some don't, but in either case, it's a Greek dish called "spanokopita". Also, a country's traditional foods could consist of food which isn't native to the area. Tomato is a staple in Greek salads, and in other Greek dishes, despite the fact that it's native to parts of Latin America. Beef pies, lamb roasts, etc. are traditional Australian dishes, even though cows and sheep are not native to Australia. The fact that a food is not native to a certain area is irrelevant to whether or not it can be included as part of its cuisine.
what's that gotta do with pineapple? Well the guy who invented pineapple pizza is Greek.
So to summarise, pizza is modern plakous. Just like pizza, plakous could have a great variety of toppings on them. Irregardless of what you decided to put on it, it was still considered plakous (just like modern-day pizza, where the toppings are irrelevant) The person who put pineapple on it was Greek, and even though there are no pineapples native to Greece, it's irrelevant as foreign foods could become adapted to become staples as part of different parts of the world, so therefore, the pineapple pizza is just pineapple plakous, or in other words, SCREW YOU! This is our food, and we can put whatever we want on it!
But first I'll tell you a little about myself. I am Australian from Greek ansestry, I am patriotic and I love both of my countries. Okay, now let's get controversial:
Pineapple does belong on pizza. There are many possible origins of pineapple pizza, but the most generally agreed one is that Sam Panopoulis, a Greek immigrant living in Canada who owned a take away shop in Ontario decided to put pineapple on his pizza. Now let's discuss the origin of pizza. Before pizza was known as the Italian dish that it is today, the Ancient Greeks had their very own type of food called plakous. Plakous was considered the "food of the gods". So what is plakous you might be asking. Plakous was a flat bread, which had many toppings on top of it. So in other words, ancient pizza, or rather, the to predecessor to it. When a culture claims a certain type of food, there is generally one type of that food, there will usually be different variations of it, with different recipes. For example, a different Greek food is spanakopita.
Spanakopita is a spinach "pie" which consists of spinach and various other green vegetables and herbs. For example, some people decide to include dill in their spanokopites, whilst some don't, but in either case, it's a Greek dish called "spanokopita". Also, a country's traditional foods could consist of food which isn't native to the area. Tomato is a staple in Greek salads, and in other Greek dishes, despite the fact that it's native to parts of Latin America. Beef pies, lamb roasts, etc. are traditional Australian dishes, even though cows and sheep are not native to Australia. The fact that a food is not native to a certain area is irrelevant to whether or not it can be included as part of its cuisine.
what's that gotta do with pineapple? Well the guy who invented pineapple pizza is Greek.
So to summarise, pizza is modern plakous. Just like pizza, plakous could have a great variety of toppings on them. Irregardless of what you decided to put on it, it was still considered plakous (just like modern-day pizza, where the toppings are irrelevant) The person who put pineapple on it was Greek, and even though there are no pineapples native to Greece, it's irrelevant as foreign foods could become adapted to become staples as part of different parts of the world, so therefore, the pineapple pizza is just pineapple plakous, or in other words, SCREW YOU! This is our food, and we can put whatever we want on it!
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ReplyDelete"Screw you". Okay then.
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