Listen up, mainlanders...
Just 'cause you put pineapple in it, doesn't mean you've created a Hawaiian dish!
You put pineapple on your pizza. So what? Now it's Pineapple Pizza. It AIN'T Hawaiian Pizza, and I don't care what Papa Johns says.
Your chicken dish has green bell peppers and terriyaki sauce and pineapple chunks. It's not Waikiki Chicken! It's Terriyaki Chicken with Pineapples and Green Bell Peppers!
Yeah, yeah, the pineapple symbolizes hospitality and aloha...but it does NOT define Hawaiian cusuine!
You know what they eat here?
Loco Moco...rice under greasy hamburger meat with brown gravy and a fried egg on top
Fried Spam...sliced thin and fried to a crisp
Spam Musubi...rectangle of sushi rice topped with a thick slice of fried Spam and secured with a strip of Nori (seaweed)
Mac Salad...macaroni salad that consists of macaroni noodles and an ungodly amount of mayo
Haupia...a coconut pudding/jello with a bit of a snot consistency
Lomi Lomi Salmon...chopped raw salmon with tomatoes and onions
Poke...raw fish with seaweed and sesame oil
Saimin...basically Ramen noodles (even available at McDonalds)
Arare...sesame crackers
Sushi...sushi is fast food here
Fish, fish, fish, beef, pork, rice, gravy, noodles...these things are what Hawaiians eat!
Pineapples are mostly for selling to you mainland suckers! You wanna call something "Hawaiian" or "Waikiki"? Drown it in mayo or stuff it with Spam, and then we'll talk.
We got choke ono grinds here, brah.