It’s the great pizza debate that you’re probably all too familiar with. Is the Hawaiian, that controversial pizza strewn with bits of ham and chunks of pineapple, a legitimately acceptable pizza? Because pineapple, you guys. Really?
You either love it or you hate it, and in case you were wondering Iceland’s President is really not a fan of pineapple pizza. And that’s the guy in charge of Iceland the country by the way, not that frozen food shop.
President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson went to visit a high school in Akuryri (Iceland) and told the kids that he was ‘fundamentally opposed’ to pineapple pizza. According to local news site Visir, the president also said that he would ban the fruit from ever finding its way to a pizza base. Well, if he had the power to do so.
As news of Iceland’s anti-pineapple president spread, Twitter obviously had something to say about it.
One guy on team pineapple suggested that an appreciation for pineapple pizza related to how smart you are. He said: ‘Pineapple Pizza isn’t for everybody. You need a certain level of intelligence to really vibe to it’s flavour’.
I for one am not too sure if I want to vibe it’s flavour though, thanks. It feels wrong. It looks wrong. It’s pineapple on a bloody pizza. That said, another person did tweet some interesting points. She said: ‘You team no pineapple pizza people – what about sweet and sour pork? Or jerk chicken with rice and pineapple/mango chutneys?’
Food for thought. But let me propose that it actually might not be that simple. Maybe it’s because in the case of a sweet and sour dish, the pineapple is ever so nicely encased within a sweet and sour sauce rather than sat staring up at you in all of its protruding yellow out of placed existence on a bed of cheese and tomato? Just me? Okay.
Another Twitter user took the support for the no pineapple on pizza arguement a whole step further. They said: ‘The President of Iceland wants to ban pineapple on pizza. This man should, obviously, be put in charge of the whole world’.
After the internet uproar though, President Guðni made ‘a statement on the pizza-controversy smiley face’ on his Facebook page, and it was as brilliant as you'd imagine it to be.
He said: 'I like pineapples, just not on pizza. I do not have the power to make laws which forbid people to put pineapples on their pizza. I am glad that I do not hold such power. Presidents should not have unlimited power. I would not want to hold this position if I could pass laws forbidding that which I don’t like. I would not want to live in such a country. For pizzas, I recommend seafood.’
Never was a truer word spoken. Apart from the seafood bit... I'm not too sure about seafood pizzas either but maybe I'm just far too picky. Can't say I wouldn't pass loads of random laws about things I don't like though (can people please stop chewing with their mouths open?) but I guess that's probably why I'm not the one running a country.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.