(The answer: Yes, but it's not a favourite.) Her inquiries led Bob Boughner of the Chatham Daily News to interview Mr. The following year, Sarah DiGregorio of the Village Voice in New York sought out the creator after a reader asked whether Hawaiians eat the Hawaiian pizza. The restaurateur's concoction went uncredited for decades until an anonymous contributor added his name to the Wikipedia entry for "Hawaiian pizza" on July 15, 2009. The restaurant cut pizza-sized circles from cardboard boxes scrounged from a neighbouring furniture store, wrapping the package in aluminum foil. He added savoury ham and, later, salty bacon to pizzas with the contents of a drained can of pineapples, naming the pink-and-yellow pie the Hawaiian after the label on the can.Įven delivering a pizza was a problem. Because those days nobody was mixing sweets and sours and all that. But after that, they went crazy about it. "Along the way we threw some pineapples on it and nobody liked it at first. "Then we tried to make some pizzas," he told the CBC's Helen Mann in February. Panopoulos decided to add the dish to the menu in 1962. It was on a trip to nearby Windsor that he got a taste of a food whose growing popularity with teenagers and housewives made it a sensation. The hiring of a cook of Chinese ancestry allowed the brothers to expand an already extensive menu, adding sweet-and-sour dishes which may have inspired his pizza. The Satellite served all-day breakfast and offered late-night delivery. In Ontario, he worked briefly in the mines in Sudbury before moving to Elliot Lake, then Wallaceburg and, finally, settling in Chatham, about 300 kilometres southwest of Toronto, where he and brother Nikitas ran the Satellite Restaurant at 145 King St. He sailed across the Mediterranean with a first stop at Naples, where he ordered a local specialty from a waterfront vendor – a roll sliced in half, topped with spaghetti and sauce. He was still a teenager when he decided to join an older brother in Canada. Despite the tribulations of the era, the young man maintained his education with the ambition of becoming a dentist. As a boy in wartime, Sotirios was recruited to make surreptitious deliveries of medicine, according to his son, Bill Panopoulos. His father was a farrier and saddlemaker in the hardscrabble region, which suffered greatly from the Depression, German occupation and a civil war. 20, 1934, in the mountain village of Vourvoura in the Peloponnese.
He was born to Georgia and Vasilios Panopoulos on Aug.
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