“An insult to Italian cuisine”: the network reacts so disgusted to Pasta Hawaii
Created: 05/13/2022, 1:38 p.m
By: Anne Tessin
Pizza Hawaii is a classic of net outrage.
Now a worthy successor comes into play, which causes emotions ranging from anger to disgust: Pasta Hawaii.
That's the recipe.
Do you like trying out new recipes and are you enthusiastic about unusual combinations?
Then you probably don't understand the excitement that followed a new pasta recipe from England.
Traditionalists, on the other hand, squirm with the creation that the British broadcaster BBC has published on its recipe page.
Noodles always work?
Yes of course, but like this?
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Pasta Hawaii with ham and pineapple causes a lot of disgust
Pasta Hawaii
is touted as a delicious dish that can be used to eat canned pineapple.
The problem: Even Pizza Hawaii, i.e. a pizza topped with
boiled ham and pineapple
, regularly sparks debates online and in real life - between the purists of Italian cuisine and the rest, who see things a little looser.
Pineapple has no place on a pizza, or in savory dishes in general, and you wouldn't find Pizza Hawaii at all in a real Italian pizzeria.
The outrage is great and in the network discussions the representatives of the pro and contra camp are irreconcilable.
Pizza Hawaii already disgusts you, then you should rather not look at this pizza variant.
There is now a lot of hostility in the air at Pasta Hawaii as well, as shown below the BBC post:
"Totally wrong, on many levels...", "That's blasphemy.", "Why do you always have to screw everything up?", "It triggers war for us Italians." belong together.” – The judgments of the Twitter community are devastating, almost no one leaves a good hair on this idiosyncratic creation, especially no users with Italian-sounding names.
And how does the author of the recipe see it?
"A family-friendly pasta recipe that makes the most of canned food.
If your kids love Hawaiian pizza, this ham and pineapple pasta makes a great change for a quick weeknight dinner," writes Lorna Cooper, probably having no idea what it would trigger as she wrote the article.
What do you think?
You don't want to be put off by the horrified comments and still want to try the
recipe for Pasta Hawaii
?
We like your courage and will tell you:
Recipe for Pasta Hawaii: the ingredients
400 grams of spaghetti
1 tbsp butter
1 onion
1 clove of garlic
200 g cooked ham
400g canned pineapple
200 grams of cream cheese
salt and pepper
Recipe: How to cook pasta Hawaii
Cook the noodles according to package directions.
In the meantime, peel and chop the onion and garlic and sauté them in a pan with butter.
Then add the diced boiled ham and fry it a little.
Drain the pineapple, reserving the juice.
Put the pineapple cubes in the pan and then stir in the cream cheese and first half of the pineapple juice.
Once the cream cheese has melted and combined with the pineapple juice to form a sauce, add the remaining juice and gently simmer again.
Finally, drain the spaghetti, season the sauce with salt and pepper and mix thoroughly.
And the pasta, which has divided opinions, is ready to be enjoyed.
You can try them out - secretly.
(ante)
