Sotirios "Sam" Panopoulos (Greek: Σωτήριος Πανοπούλος; 1934 – 8 June 2017) was a Greek-born Canadian cook and businessman, credited as the inventor of (the much hated) Hawaiian pizza, also known as the pineapple pizza.

Career:
After sampling pizza in Naples, Panopoulos first tried pizza in North America when he visited Windsor, Ontario.

With his brothers Elias and Nikitas, Panopoulos owned the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ontario. They offered typical American items such as burgers and fries, and also American Chinese dishes, some of which also mix sweet and savory flavours. In the early 1960s Panopoulos started offering pizzas, recently popular in the USA. In 1962 he had the idea to add canned pineapple to pizza. This innovation (sometimes disputed) was not immediately popular with his customers, and over time has earned the disdain of pizza puritans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Panopoulos

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Only a psychopath would rejoice (because a person is dead but... mostly because hawaian pizza es amazing).

Pineapple is love.

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Some would put him in the same group as Hitler or Bin Laden, i saw some real hate against pineapple pizza.
Personally I like hawaian pizza too.

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You and him are monsters! Monsters I say, nearly on level of Bush or Obama!

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Nay. Mecha Trump Hitler!

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Does he eat pineapples?

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He sweats the juice.

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I need to reconsider Mecha Trump Hitler! then

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One of the meanest insults someone insulted me with!

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Pineapple and pizza are both great. Separately.

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If you say so. It's not psychopathic to dislike someone you're not personally connected to enough to "rejoice" (whatever that even means... do you throw a party? Throw your hands up in the air?).

Distasteful, sure, but not psychopathic.

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A pizza party?

I have altered the subtitle, for those bothered by it.

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I know, it was just a joke because the internet seems to hate hawaian but it's amazing.

Don't take me seriously on SG forums

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So a greek man living in Canada invented the Hawaiian pizza? Mh...

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Funny, I despise pineapple, it tastes terrible, except on pizza. I love the hawaiian.

RIP

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Pineapple on pizza is good if it also has black olives and jalapenos. I can't stand it otherwise.

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I like pineapple.. Just not on my pizza. Keep it far away from my pizza.

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Don't say you like it on your pen...

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U wot m8?
In my stomach, thank you.

I just don't like mixing sweet things in my hot meals.
I'll have my meal nice and spicy, then I can have the sweet pineapple for dessert.

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Why do i have to be the one to do this.

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You really didn't have to.

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I love pizza, and pineapple. Hawaii pizza - well edible, but that's my standing point on it - if I have the choice I would prefer a well done Margharita over it (unless I want the extra food because super hungry) but I have no problems if that's the only thing to eat :)
Poor pizza gets a little too much flak - if you don't like it, don't eat it. Why is it such a travesty while we eat honey what is the goo that bees vomit out, or raw oyster and such? :|

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Or eggs..

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Or that one, yes :D

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I love pineapple pizza.

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Me to a long with Canadian Bacon

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I love pineapple and canadian bacon, but I have never had a hawian pizza.

Mainly because I like mine drowned in meats. :P

Still, sad to see a pioneer go. RiP.

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+1
I enjoy a good meat drowning from time to time

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Pineapple pizza is my favorite!

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Pineapples are not my thing in general, and especially not on pizza, but RIP to an innovator.

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Well at least now I know who to hate for that culinary abomination.

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Not a fan of pineapple on pizza, unless the fruit is really fresh and still has the more spicy taste. This to offset the sweet, which otherwise tends to drown out the flavors of the other toppings.
By the same token, also not a fan of most pizzas having an excessive amount of cheeze dumped on top.

I wouldn't stop others from eating it, or from experimenting with other pizza toppings though. And pineapple isn't the weirdest I've seen, when there's also madmen topping pizzas with things like french fries and hotdog sausages, marshmellows, bananas, döner kebab (on a supposedly Italian-style pizza, yes, not wrapped into a Dürüm).

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Domino Pizza had sauerkraut with optional sausage inside the crust around the edges, they sometimes make weird recipes.
Also saw a Dr Oetker pizza with taco chips.

I am sure there can be plenty named.

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And then we're still not getting into stuff like this:

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I don't understand why anyone would begrudge someone else their personal taste preference.

I don't care if you eat pickles with peanut butter on salami. You do you.

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Unless you have to kiss that person. :p

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Have to? Like your great aunt coming to visit? :p

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It's strange, but in some ways I enjoy pineapple pizza. Actually, I oddly have a hankering for it after seeing those images.

It goes well with the cheese and pizza sauce.

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I like pizza with pineapple, but it has to have other things on it as well. for me Ham, Sausage, bacon, nuts, whatever, I like it as a side flavor rather than the main one :P

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Nuts? :?

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Almonds more specifically. You wouldn't immediately think it but sliced almonds go great on it.

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"What kind of gastronomic mutant puts pineapple on a pizza?"

The same kind of gastronomic mutant that puts chorizo on a paella.

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Brazil has a chocolate/banana dessert thin crust pizza which is actually good. I like hawaiian pizza if done right.

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