Italy - look away now! In Sweden they love putting BANANAS on pizzas... and the internet doesn't know what to make of it. Would YOU try it?

Italy - look away now! In Sweden they love putting BANANAS on pizzas...

and the internet doesn't know what to make of it. Would YOU try it? Sweden's beloved banana pizza is thought to date back to the 1960s READ MORE: 14 breathtaking images from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year By Esther Marshall Published: 11:52 BST, 29 August 2024 | Updated: 11:53 BST, 29 August 2024 e-mail View comments Italians, you may not be able to look at the photography in this story. Because we've pictured a pizza that's hugely popular in Sweden - one that's topped with bananas.

Swedes' love of banana pizzas has been around for a while, but the Internet only cottoned on to this quirky culinary trend relatively recently, and it's been left baffled. Sweden's popular banana pizza has divided the Internet - would you try it? Read More Tourists reveal the 'worst' museums they've visited..

. (so have YOU been to any of them?) While there's no official date as to when the bizarre pizza was introduced in Sweden, it's thought to have originated in the 1960s. After WWII , Swedes developed an interest in Polynesian flavours, including banana and pineapple.

In 1960s Sweden, it became fairly common to serve banana with ham for dinner. This passion for fruity flavours in savoury dishes led to banana casseroles, curries and the now ubiquitous banana pizza. Professor Tellström, a food historian at Stockholm University, told Smithsonian Magazine that the pizza is 'probably related to a search for exoticism tha.