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Ann Leckie@annleckie.com |
Ok, so, when I asked this question I was not asking "why does anyone not like pineapple on pizza." I wanted to know why it caused fights. Folks saying "well people like to fight over random stuff" are closer to what I was asking. Thing is, by and large, those "random things" are not random.
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Kevin Cantú
@killerswan.bsky.social
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as a midwesterner, I suspect the problem is that: - canned pineapple is a cheap fruit delicacy that really helps in the cold winter - cooking it makes it safer/tastier - we don’t know how to talk about how this traditional pizza choice was/is driven by poverty / nutritional deprivation
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Beezchurger and Flies with a Dr. Pepper
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I suspect that it feeds some unrecognized psychological need to be righteously Correct, and it's considered to be an okay topic to be righteously Correct over because it's "just pineapple on pizza." Alternately, it's a meme and people don't realize they're doing the pizza version of a pointy S
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Lev Mirov
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I think, deep down, it causes fights because it is a colonial interpretation of an American superfood but that colony is in America, it is an inversion of the relationship the US prides itself on having with pizza. People don't do this about ranch pizza with buffalo chicken.
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Tom Holub
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Growing up in a mostly Italian-American town in New Jersey, pretty sure no pizzeria had pineapple. Only Californians did that. The town was provincial in lots of ways, such as, proud about not being able to use chopsticks. That town is now fancy and probably has pineapple on pizza.
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Ann Leckie
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Nine times out of ten, they're declarations of affiliation to one or another group. Usually ethnicity or class, but also city of origin/adoption, or other similar things. But it's nearly always ethnicity or class or a combo of both.
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DoctorBowring
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After a long day of work, looking at my glowing rectangle, I like to unwind by coming home and looking at a different glowing rectangle. Wonder whether it’s like this. After getting mad about weighty consequential things all day, people like to unwind by getting mad about totally trivial things.
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