The crafty reason a pizza restaurant is serving £100 for a Hawaiian
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Love or hate pineapple on pizza – one Norwich restaurant made its stance very clear. Pineapple on pizza is the most divisive topping to exist, responsible for causing heated arguments between pizza aficionados across the world. Culinary heads like Stanley Tucci and Gordon Ramsay have previously denounced the existence of the Hawaiian topping – consisting of ham, cheese and pineapple – but American-style pizza chains like Dominoes and Pizza Hut proudly sell the creation to devoted fans.
![[Concoction was branded a ‘tropical menace’ by restaurant’s head chef]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/14/08/pineapple-on-pizza.jpg)
One Italian restaurant is taking matters into its own hands by charging customers £100 for a standard Hawaiian to deter customers from buying the controversial concoction. Lupa Pizza in Norwich added the option to their Deliveroo menu after receiving requests from customers. However, the staff felt so passionate about the moral wrongs of the “tropical menace” that they hiked up the price as a statement of disapproval.
![[The Norwich pizzeria’s take on the Hawaiian pizza]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/14/08/Screenshot-2025-01-14-at-08.52.07.jpg)
On the takeaway app, the product description reads: “Yeah, for £100 you can have it. Order the champagne too! Go on you Monster!”. The restaurant posted a picture of a Neapolitan-style pizza topped with four slices of canned pineapple to its Instagram, with the caption: “Pineapple on pizza – love it or hate it? We’re not so keen, but if you are, it’s now on our Deliveroo menu for £100.”.
The restaurant has made only one Hawaiian pizza before, which was exclusively for the Deliveroo picture (and the pineapple was removed before the pizza was consumed). His head chef Quin Jianoran expressed that pineapple should never be on pizza in the first place.
