Catching my own bad take from 2019 about pineapple on pizza, of all things

I used to be one of those people who would comment on any food post with 'pineapple on pizza is a crime.' Real edgy stuff. Last week I dug through my old Reddit history for a laugh and found a thread where I argued with someone for three hours about it, even cited a chef from Portland who said it ruins the dough. Now I work at a pizza place in Columbus and we sell a Hawaiian with jalapeno and hot honey, it outsells pepperoni on Fridays. What bad take did you hold onto way too long, and what finally flipped you?

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fiona_carr261mo agoMost Upvoted

Oh man, cilantro is the PERFECT example!! That soap gene thing is real for some people but I swear half of us were just repeating it to sound cool. I did the same thing with mushrooms, hated them for years because my mom only ever served them slimy from a can. Then I had roasted mushrooms at a friend's barbecue and it was like a whole new food group unlocked. Now I get it that texture and prep changes everything, same as how jalapeno and hot honey totally changes the Hawaiian pizza game. It's wild how we build our whole identity around not liking something we never even tried properly. Honestly the best part is watching other people have that same moment of realization, like they're mad at themselves for all the years they wasted being wrong.

grant1551mo ago

citing a chef from Portland who said it ruins the dough" got me because I had a similar thing about cilantro. I spent years telling people it tasted like soap and anyone who liked it was lying to themselves. Then my buddy dragged me to this taco spot and I took a bite of their salsa without asking what was in it, and it was the best thing I ever tasted. He just laughed and said "that's the cilantro, dummy." Now I put it on everything from eggs to burrito bowls at home. I still tell my old food take story at parties because it's a good reminder that stubbornness about food is just pride wearing a chef hat.