{"id":27060,"date":"2024-02-09T18:15:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T09:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=27060"},"modified":"2024-02-09T18:15:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T09:15:27","slug":"20240209-27060","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240209-27060\/","title":{"rendered":"Does pineapple belong on pizza or not? 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It is played on a very realistic and delicious looking pizza board, which seems to depict a traditional Italian margherita. In the center of the pizza is a squared grid, in which players can put either pineapple or salami slices until the pizza is fully covered in toppings. To demonstrate, Fujiwara plays on her own, leading team pineapple to an overwhelming victory. In a following post she <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/muda_zukuri\/status\/1755044005174550594?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">states<\/a>, \u201cI want to put pineapple in all dishes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although obviously intended as a piece of light-hearted conceptual art, many users <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/umimya_trbgani\/status\/1755369351195332711?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expressed the desire to actually play<\/a> a real Pineapple vs Salami board game. While New Yorkers and Italians getting heated up over pizza puritanism is expected, there\u2019s surprisingly a strong polarization among Japanese users too when it comes to the controversial combination of pineapple and pizza.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marina Fujiwara\u2019s various &#8220;useless inventions&#8221; can be seen on her <a href=\"https:\/\/marinafujiwara.persona.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">social media<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fujiwaram.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">official website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese &#8220;useless invention&#8221; artist Marina Fujiwara revealed her Pineapple vs Salami board game, designed to let pro and anti pineapple on pizza-ers battle it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":27064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-27060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Does pineapple belong on pizza or not? 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