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Iceland's President wants to ban the world's most divisive pizza topping

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Iceland's President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson has become a political hero overnight after denouncing pineapple on pizza.

Taking questions from students at a high school in North Iceland, a pupil asked Johannesson what he thought about pineapple as a pizza topping. He said he didn’t agree with it at all, and would ban it if he could. He clarified on Facebook that he likes pineapples, but just not on pizza.

And of course there’s a hashtag for people to come togetether and show their support :

But, like anything in politics, there were dissenters:

You can't win them all.

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