An Italian chef sacked from a Brisbane restaurant had refused to put pineapple on a pizza because it was an “insult to his culture”.
Davide Tamburella was fired from the now-closed La Costa restaurant in May, a fortnight after a meeting with management who had a string of complaints about the chef’s behaviour.
Among them were Tamburella’s refusal to provide ham and pineapple pizza for guests at a function. At the time, the chef had stated that any direction from management “need not be followed when it is offensive to his culture”.
The details came to light after the chef went to Australia’s Fair Work Commission claiming he had been unfairly dismissed.
In its ruling released on Tuesday, the commission noted that Tamburella’s refusal to put pineapple on the pizzas was because “he considers, as an Italian, that putting pineapple on a pizza is an insult to his culture”.
The only thing worse than Italians being all mamma-mia about pineapple on pizza is Americans who want to claim pizza was invented in the USA.
No it fucking wasn’t. Shut the fuck up.
It’s extremely well documented that tomato paste on flat bread + olive oil + other toppings started in Naples.
Florida is in the USA
Tomato sauce on a flatbed with cheese is a Mexican invention. It isn’t their fault the Italians can’t make a good tortilla but they don’t have to appropriate the culture like that
Yet more evidence that Italians are the evil universe version of Mexicans.
Hard confirm
I love Italian Marxists claiming that the modern pizza was invented in the US though.
It’s an international invention.
Genome project-like decades long international collaboration of the world’s leading minds utilizing bleeding edge state of the art technology but it’s for the concept of putting cheese on bread.