Takuro - pretty much every pizza place sell Hawaii (sometimes under another name) and it has pineapple (canned fruit). Raisins are less common but many places offer pizzas with that too. Up north you can even get calzone style pizzas with a hamburger inside! :)
I lived in Sweden and I don't remember things like mashed potatoes, raisins, or canned fruit cocktail being offered as pizza toppings. We ate a lot of pizza too. Swedish pizzas are very thin and floppy. My favorite toppings were red peppers and garlic. I lived in a place called Västerås and later visited in-laws that moved way north to an area called Undersvik. Maybe I needed to go to Stockholm or something for weird pizza toppings.
Swedish Hawaiian pizza -with bananas, ham, pineapple and curry powder is heavenly. Plus, all pizzas there come with a vinegary cabbage salad and when you put a bit on the pizza -oh man it's amazing!
How on god's earth did you come to think that "American tomatoes made it snappier"?
Pizza was invented in Napoli, and the first Pizza with tomatoes was served exactly there: in 1889, during a visit to Naples, Queen Margherita of Italy was served a pizza resembling the colors of the Italian flag, red (tomato), white (mozzarella) and green (basil). This kind of pizza has been named after the Queen as Pizza Margherita (source: http://www.italymag.co.uk/italy-featured/recipes/pizza-margherita-history-and-recipe).
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Zeon thinks it's foul though. :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pizza
Pizza was invented in Napoli, and the first Pizza with tomatoes was served exactly there: in 1889, during a visit to Naples, Queen Margherita of Italy was served a pizza resembling the colors of the Italian flag, red (tomato), white (mozzarella) and green (basil). This kind of pizza has been named after the Queen as Pizza Margherita (source: http://www.italymag.co.uk/italy-featured/recipes/pizza-margherita-history-and-recipe).