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THE GREEK IMMIGRANT who created one of the world’s most popular and controversial pizzas – Hawaiian pizza – in his restaurant in Canada more than 50 years ago, has died.
Sam Panopoulos – who earned a place in history by putting canned pineapple and ham on a pizza at his Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ontario in 1962 – was 83 and had just celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary with his wife Christina.
He died suddenly in the hospital on Thursday, according to his obituary.
Panopoulos had operated a string of successful restaurants with his brothers Elias and Nikitas when he came up with his famous invention.
Created just for fun, the so-called Hawaiian soon spread around the world.
Last February, the dish became the target of ridicule by Iceland’s president, Guoni Johannesson.
Saying he was fundamentally opposed to pineapple on pizza, Johannesson declared that it should be banned.
After a public uproar, he clarified that he gladly does not have “the power to make laws which forbid people to put pineapple on their pizza”.
Defending his creation, Panopoulos told the public broadcaster CBC that “those days when I first came up with it, there was nothing to it… It was just another piece of bread cooking in the oven”.
“Nobody liked it at first,” he said.
But after that, they went crazy about it, because (in) those days nobody was mixing sweet and sour and all that. It was plain, plain food.
Others soon began experimenting, Panopoulos said, going beyond the traditional pepperoni, bacon and mushroom toppings to include salmon, green peppers, onions or “whatever you wanted”.
Poor monkey
He deserves a good spanking
They wouldn’t do that to a human who went around terrorising people.
The science of rehabilitating bitey monkeys is in a nascent state.
Could those people that got bitten contacted any disease.
One monkey , 280 ppl lol .
should a just hit him with a monkey wrench or gave him toast but ya have to gorilla first .rip outbreak monkey.
Food shortage?
Think they’ll find he joined Real Madrid for around €100 mill recently! Search over!
Great! Man creates problem, man solves problem. Poor creature.
That monkey was bananas
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