re: #60 The Ghost of a Flea

Pork and pineapple go together very well, it’s a combination that a bunch of cultures arrive at when they have access to both. Pineapple and meat is common in Yunnan food and Thai food; pineapple chutney for savory items is a variant on mango chutney.

Frankly…Americans are kind of the weird outliers in their insistence that some fruits cannot be included in savory recipes.

I think the pineapple pork fatwa just came about as a way for Americans to police “authenticity” over pizza as a cultural import, whereas most Italians really don’t care much either way.