The world rejects pineapple pizza, but only barely: 44 % no against 38 % yes, with 19 % preferring not to decide. On a question famed for dividing people, it is one of the tightest results in the archive.
The gender divide is the strongest of the day, at twenty-six points: women reject it heavily (83 % no), while men lean towards acceptance and account for much of the hesitation.
Age inverts the clichés. The over-65s are the most tolerant, the 45-54s the most uncompromising: not one of them accepts pineapple. The 18-24s follow the global majority, and the 13-17s split into three strictly equal parts, which is almost an answer in itself.
Relative to its subject, the debate is one of the liveliest in the archive. The refusal camp speaks in moral terms: mixing something sweet into the taste of a pizza is called an abomination, originality has limits, and so does open-mindedness, one voice adds, laughing.
The pro camp answers with analogy and experience: if goat's cheese and honey pizza exists, why not pineapple; sweet and savoury pair well; and until you have tasted it, you cannot know. One voice even invokes a great chef's duty to innovate.
The thread's only real exchange moves a line: after discussion, a voice from the refusal camp concedes that it all depends on how the dish is cooked. It is the day's single shift in position, and it comes from the side that won the vote.