Sam Panoupolos
January 8, 2026
The man who put pineapple on pizza and called it, Hawaiian pizza, Sam Panopoulos
On a recent walk through Woodland Cemetery in London, Ontario, I visited the grave of the man who in 1962 at his restaurant in Chatham, Ontario, decided “for the fun of it” to put sliced canned pineapple on a pizza and call it Hawaiian. That man was Sam Panopoulos. While working at his family’s Satellite […]
