Iceland's president's strong views on pizza have caused an international stir.
Gudni Th. Johannesson disclosed his opposition to pineapple on pizza to Icelandic high school students last week. Icelandic media reported that he said he'd ban the fruity topping if he could.
It proved Johannesson's most controversial statement since he took up the largely ceremonial post last year.
Amid a social-media storm, Johannesson released a statement on Facebook, stressing that he does not have the power to ban pizza toppings, and is "glad that I do not hold such power."
The former history professor says he "would not want to hold this position if I could pass laws forbidding that which I don't like. I would not want to live in such a country."
For pizza, however, "I recommend seafood."
A Canadian restaurateur is credited with the birth of the Hawaiian pizza which drops chunks of pineapple and ham on top of cheese and marinara sauce.
Sam Panopoulos has said he first put pineapple on pizza at his Satellite restaurant in Chatham in the early 1960s.
"Nobody liked it at first," Panopoulos told the CBC Tuesday. "But after that, they went crazy about it. Because those days nobody was mixing sweets and sours and all that. It was plain, plain food. Anyway, after that it stays."
Panopoulos did not seem especially put out by Johannesson's pizza preferences.
"I don't care what he does. He can say whatever he wants. He sells the fish over there, you know, that's all he does. So he has to put the fish on the pizza."
with files from Siobhan Morris