The Washington Post Panopoulos.
Panopoulos goes on,“The pizza in Canada in those days was primitive,
you know.
Just kidding- Panopoulos has claimed to be the creator, but so have others.
As to his inspiration here, Panopoulos noted“those days nobody was mixing sweets
and sours and all that.
However, on the boat ride over, they made a pitstop-
one that forever changed Panopoulos' life and pizza history.
Panopoulos would ultimately sell his restaurant in 1972,
and in interviews shortly before his death lamented he hadn't attempted to patent Hawaiian Pizza.
According to the Washington Post, Panopoulos' first ever bite of pizza
was something of a spaghetti-like concoction that left him disappointed in the food item.
Sam Panopoulos left his Greek home with his two brothers in 1956 at the age of 20,
bound for a new life in North America.
So it's perhaps no surprise that Panopoulos'“Hawaiian” Pizza debuting at this time saw
his customers quite literally eat it up, though Panopoulos noted“nobody liked it at first.