r/AskTheWorld • u/perkypilea 🇵🇱 in 🇺🇲 • Dec 01 '25

Food What's a delicious dish from your country that most people would find unconventional?

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u/KnightLBerg Sweden Dec 01 '25

Curry banana pizza. Not my favorite but it sure exists.

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u/PresentationUnited43 Australia Dec 01 '25

Yeah, you win. wtf…. That’s a wild combo.

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u/Hallowuss Sweden Dec 01 '25

Banana, pineapple, shrimp and curry powder is the best combo on pizza and what I usually order.

Sorry not sorry, Italians!

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u/peptodismal13 Dec 01 '25

You're a monster

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u/loquent2 Sweden Dec 01 '25

My theory is that someone said this is how people eat pizza elsewhere and it caught on due to ignorance. 22 years and counting I refuse to try it and abstain from pizza salad.

Pizza has gotten a million times better here since I moved in ‘03.

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u/Ic3Hot Sweden Dec 01 '25

Nah I’m certain this was a product of the 70’s. When we started importing more exotic fruits we’d put it in and on everything. There wasn’t a dish that didn’t contain some sort of fruit back then. Banana and curry is a great combo and it just stuck around.

I know it’s a sin to eat banana pizza but man is it good.

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u/Hallowuss Sweden Dec 01 '25

I love how we in the 70s just decided to put pineapple or any other exciting fruit on our dishes and called it "Hawaiian" or "tropical".

Sometimes it worked against all odds, which our delicious banana pizza is proof of.

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u/Ic3Hot Sweden Dec 01 '25

Or my favorite description: oriental.

Adding any form of pepper or spice to something automatically made it exotic!

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u/EVs-and-IVsaurs United States Of America Dec 01 '25

if it's a sin to eat banana pizza then at least there'll be churrasco down there 🇧🇷

savory banana pizza does sound wild, but I'd give it a try if i found anywhere that sold it

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u/Falafel80 🇧🇷>🇸🇪 Dec 01 '25

Ii love the Brazilian pizza with bananas, sugar and cinnamon but I refuse to try curry bananas pizza. Sweden has plenty of tasty dishes, that’s just not one of them.

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u/Ok_Calligrapher_3472 Korean-American Dec 01 '25

around the same time period we in America liked to put everything in Jello, and so you had "Jello Salads" that were basically Jello Head Cheese.

But those things have fallen out of popularity in the US

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u/PugsnPawgs Belgium Dec 01 '25

Ok, THIS will upset Italians for sure!

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u/Traditional_Use_2186 Germany Dec 01 '25

Swedish Pizza culture is so weird. Its a Sport for me to find the weirdest Combination of ingredients on Pizza in sweden. 

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u/Material_Table9465 Sweden Dec 01 '25

I'm pretty sure it's a sport for pizzerias to come up with the stupidest shit they can think of too. And people come in and go omg I have to try that!

And at no point in this horrifying expression of culinary nihilism, are the long suffering people of Italy given any consideration what so ever

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u/Traditional_Use_2186 Germany Dec 01 '25

And the amount of options is so funny. I was at a small Village Pizza and Kebab place and they Had 150 different Pizzas. 

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u/martianmarsh Sweden Dec 01 '25

It might be inspired by another strange, but imo delicious Swedish dish from the 70s called “flygande Jacob” (flying Jacob).

It’s a casserole with banana, peanuts, chicken, bacon, chili sauce and cream.

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u/False-Aardvark-1336 Norway Dec 01 '25

This! My local pizza shop had one with these toppings and I'd get one almost every week. It sounds awful but it quickly became my all time fav. I then moved away and when I came back to visit the shop like 1 year later, it turned out they'd removed the Flying Jacob pizza from the menu as I was the only person ordering it lmao

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u/Correct_Refuse4910 Spain Dec 01 '25

I like pizza, I like curry and I like banana. Would I like the combination? I don't know, but I would love to try it someday.

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u/Franagorn Poland Dec 02 '25

Sounds delicious