It has been suggested that I could make a killer pizza version of our cheesy scroll bread and I must say I do agree. But… and this is a BIG but…. there shall not be, in fact I can go so far as to say there will NEVER be, pineapple in my pizza scroll bread.
Never.
It’s not that I don’t like pineapple… on the contrary I LOVE pineapple. I am drooling as I write this remembering the most perfectly amazing sweet and not acidic pineapples we have consumed while on holidays in Queensland. Pineapple is high up there on my list of favourite fruits. Pineapple really makes our zucchini cake something extra special. We even had fresh pineapple for desert tonight.
I don’t have anything against pineapple. I do however, have a problem with mixing sweet food with savoury food. Pineapple is sweet. Pizza is savoury. The two should never mmet. End of story.
It’s not just pineapple on pizza that I take issue with. Such things as Apricot Chicken, Sweet and Sour and Curry with sultanas shall never grace my dining table, nor pass my lips. I don’t even do jam on bread… Jam is for pancakes and scones.. not sandwiches.
Please don’t flood me with comments about how I am missing out. About how if I just tried this recipe or that food I would change my mind. I won’t. I was born this way. So was my mother…I can not escape my genes.
(photo by abacaxi-02)
HayleyB says
Almost totally there with you. I don’t like Apricot Chicken, nor do I like curry with sultanas, and I don’t do jam on bread (scones and pikelets it is!). I say “almost totally there with you” because my only exception to the “sweet and savoury don’t mix” thing is pineapple on pizza. It is the one thing that I do not have a problem with.
Alex says
You and my husband would get on well. He, too, hates his sweet and savoury mixed. We have a phrase we use when this comes up when eating out it is….’fruit and meat’ said in a neaderthal kind of voice. Eg. Me:”Did you enjoy that meal?” Him:”Not really” Me:”Why’s that?” Him:”Fruit and meat”. I know exactly what he means! You’re getting an exclusive glimpse into our relationship here – please don’t judge!!!
Alex xxx
Narelle says
I totally agree. Fruit should not be cooked with meat. Ever. Especially sultanas.
Lightening says
I have to admit, I’m the same. Although pineapple on pizza is my ONE exception. Mind you, I do love my pizzas without it too (if I’m having anything else on there other than ham).
Andrew says
my mothers insistence that we eat ham steaks and then slop a slice of tinned pineapple on the top of it.. YUCK, no child of mine will be forced to eat that!
Leah says
fetta and watermelon?
pear and brie?
chilli chocolate?
you don’t know what you are missing!!?? lol
Leigh says
Your all weird :P
So what about tomatoes them..they are fruit!
Maybe I like sweet stuff, cause it covers up how bad my cooking really is LOL
peapodsquadmom says
oh blasphemy! i love pineapple on pizza! ;-0 but then, i also love apricot chicken…etc. i’m a freak. still love me?
Lea-Anne says
I agree fruit and savoury should never EVER be together. And I too was punished with ham steaks with a great big pineapple slice on it when i was a kid… Still hate it now.
Lea-Anne
Shae says
I still think you are crazy! Peanut butter brownies????
Nic Leszinsky says
Oh I agree 100% Kate. *shuddering* at the thought of my mums curry with sultanas….ewww and pineapple on pizza is gross.
Amanda says
Kate, I can’t agree with you, but I won’t try to convert you because my husband’s exactly the same and has resisted all my attempts at conversion. On top of that, he has some weird theory – one of those things he “read somewhere” – that cooking cheese and pineapple together causes some deadly toxic reaction. Curiously, I’ve never suffered ill-effects myself, but that remains one of his arguments against such combinations …
Trace says
I won’t try to convert you (FYI I don’t like pizza WITHOUT pineapple!)
but your comment about not having jam on bread intrigues me! I wouldn’t have really considered bread to be savoury… it is kind of neutral! (especially if you are talking plain white bread) So my question to you is this… What is your take on fairy bread?
Surely you haven’t banned fairy bread at your house? :P
tiff says
So, no peanut butter ice cream for you then?