Yes, Cast It (Pineapple On Pizza Meme)
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DONT DO IT! DON'T CAST IT ON A PIZZA! YES
Overview
This is a three-panel meme using the popular Lord of the Rings 'Don't Cast It' template to joke about the long-running internet debate over whether pineapple belongs on pizza. The top panel shows a pile of pineapple chunks, the controversial topping in question. The middle panel pairs the Italian flag (Italy is the origin of modern pizza) with a shocked Elrond from Lord of the Rings, with text reading 'DONT DO IT! DON'T CAST IT ON A PIZZA!' representing traditional Italian pizza purists who oppose pineapple as a pizza topping. The bottom panel pairs the Canadian flag with Isildur from Lord of the Rings, who says 'YES' next to an image of a finished pineapple pizza, representing Canada's embrace of this controversial topping.
Origin notes
This meme originates from Reddit's r/meme community with the original title 'yes, cast it'. It repurposes the well-known 'Don't Cast It' meme template taken from the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers film scene where Elrond urges Isildur to destroy the One Ring, recontextualizing it for the famous ongoing pineapple on pizza food debate. It was created using a meme generator on imgflip, as seen from the watermark.