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Justin Trudeau Thinks Pineapple On Pizza Is 'A Delicious National Treasure'

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Pineapple On Pizza Is 'A Delicious National Treasure' Says Trudeau
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Justin Trudeau has reaffirmed his love for pineapple on pizza and called it "a delicious national treasure." 

He replied to a tweet from Ottawa Public Health about how every time they said pineapple doesn't belong on pizza, it was a lie.

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Trudeau agreed with the sentiment of it being a national treasure, and it isn't the first time he's shown his love for this food.

"I have a pineapple. I have a pizza. And I stand behind this delicious Southwestern Ontario creation," he tweeted in 2017. 

Hawaiian pizza was created by restaurant owner Sam Panopoulos in Ontario back in 1962, when he decided to try putting pineapple on pizza.

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      Lisa Belmonte (she/her) is a Senior Writer with Narcity Media. After graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), she joined the Narcity team. Lisa covers news and notices from across the country from a Canada-wide perspective. Her early coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic earned Narcity its first-ever national journalism award nomination.

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