Where does hawaiian pizza come from. The path that led panopoulos to hawaiian pizza began long before 1962 atlas obscura reported. Honestly the only place ive seen hawaiian pizza being served is on the mainland. The pizza hawaii is a pizza with cheese tomatoes ham and pineapple.
Panopoulos immigrated from greece to canada in 1954. Inspired in part by his experience preparing chinese dishes which commonly mix sweet and. No one made pizza.
The love it or hate it pie has more to do with canada than polynesia. It most definitely did not come from hawaii. In 1962 the hawaiian pizza a pizza topped with pineapple and ham was invented in canada by restaurateur sam panopoulis at the satellite restaurant in chatham ontario.
Australians it turns out cant get enough of hawaiian pizza. Hawaiian pizza also known as pineapple pizza is a pizza topped with pineapple ham tomato sauce and cheese. We actually think that the pizza hawaii can trace its roots back to hawaii.
It is the most popular pizza in australia about 15 of all pizzas sold there but has very little to do with the hawaiian islands. According to the trade journal pizza marketing quarterly the sweet and salty combo of sliced ham and canned pineapple has accounted for as much as 15 percent of all pizza orders in the countrymeanwhile americans cant stand the stuff and despite its. Said no local ever.
Greek sam panopoulos claimed that he created the first hawaiian pizza at the satellite restaurant in chatham ontario canada in 1962.