Joe Issa – the turnaround man of Jamaica’s tourism industry – who presented Italian pizza at his hospitality interests to enhance the dining experience of his visitors, has hailed the creator of Hawaiian pizza who passed away recently, at 82 years of age.
“It is always a sad moment whenever people of immense imagination and innovation pass on suddenly – like restaurateur Sam Panopoulos who invented the delicious, yet conflict-ridden Hawaiian pizza.
“It used to be thought that a pizza was sufficiently delectable with bacon, mushroom and pepperoni fixings until Sam Panopoulos added pineapple and ham to it.
“From that point forward Hawaiian pizza has changed the way people see canned pineapple,” Issa opined, expressing that “pineapple is presently utilized as a part of numerous other international cooking styles.”
Issa is joined by his previous house visitor, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, who is additionally an enthusiast of his nation’s famous Hawaiian pizza.
As indicated by the Guardian – one of several English media houses to declare Panopoulos’ sudden passing, Trudeau is said to have turned out on #teampineapple on Twitter prior this year.
However, in addition to being a delight for many, the pizza, which got its name
“Hawaiian” after the branded tin from which pineapple was first used, is also said to be confusing and appalling for some.
A few Germans are said to have made a case for the creation, saying it depends on their pineapple-cheddar ham sandwich – Toast Hawaii – which was well known in the 1950s, about 10 years before the rise of Hawaiian pizza.
recently, President of Iceland Guoni Johannesson made an online hubbub when he declared to a gathering of school kids that he was against the utilisation of pineapple on pizza, proposing it ought to be prohibited.
Among the individuals who reprimanded him, was Trudeau, who twitted: “I have a pineapple. I have a pizza. Moreover, I stand behind this delicious Southwestern Ontario creation.”
Panopoulos, who came to Canada in 1954 at 20 years old, found the one of a kind flavour given to the pizza by including pineapple when in1962, he was inspired to try it at one of the several successful restaurants which he and his two brothers operated.
He told the BBC in February this year: “We just put it on, just for the fun of it, see how it was going to taste. We were young in the business, and we were doing many experiments.”
Joseph Issa, Jamaica, Sea, Sand and Sun 