India, Nov. 12 -- Would you put pineapple on your pizza? I ask because this has become a burning question in the food world (and on non-foodie mainstream media too) after an incident in the Australian city of Brisbane.

Here's what happened. An Italian chef called Davide Tamburella was sacked from La Costa, a local restaurant, because he refused to put pineapple on a pizza. According to the restaurant's managing director Elliot Ingram (whose name does not sound Italian), Tamburella was a repeat offender who had refused to top his pizza with pineapple on two previous occasions.

Tamburella told an employment tribunal that it was against his culture to make a pineapple pizza and claimed that he had been sacked unfairly. La Costa has since c...