No Pizza for You!

Apparently Italy, the mother of pizza, does not like pizza with pineapple. Dominos is abandoning the Italian market. Though how they thought that Italians would prefer Americanized pizza to what Mama makes I have no idea.

They left the Nordic countries a couple of years ago, and failed in China but are still in there feeding pizza to the Russians.

[Jenise]

While in Amsterdam in 2017, just for adventure Bob and I took a random train to an unknown place to just sit and watch ordinary Dutchmen doing ordinary things. There, from an outdoor patio, we shared a few beers and watched, rather horrified, as one motorbike after another showed up at a shop a few doors down and left with packs full of what turned out to be Domino's pizza going out for delivery. It was like watching bee business at a hive. Not just popular, immensely popular--apparently.

In a way it makes sense. The Dutch people I got to know there, though there were foodie exceptions, had fairly bland and unadventurous palates. I remember talking to one who had just returned from a Spanish vacation who shocked me by complaining that the food was too--oh gosh, what word did he use, not spicy but something like busy. There was just too much flavor, essentially. That guy would be a Domino's customer, and there are many many there like him.

They [Domono's Pizza] left the Nordic countries a couple of years ago, and failed in China but are still in there feeding pizza to the Russians.

I'm sure the Ukrainians are applauding.

Not surprised they ran into trouble in Italy. Pizza Napolitana is, after all, an EU TSG.

I remember some French foodies complaining in a discussion group about McDonald's, in France. I pointed out that if French want them out all they have to do is to stop buying and eating the stuff.

-Paul W.

When we were in Germany we saw a McDonald's sign done in antique style to blend in with the surroundings. Couldn't find our picture of it but it looked like this:

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