Hawaiian pizza was created in 1962 by Sam Panopoulos, a Greek-born Canadian cook at a restaurant in Chatham-Kent, Ontario. He had been working with Canadian Chinese dishes, which often mix sweet and sour flavours, and began trying pineapple, ham and bacon on pizza. The combination was not an instant hit, but it caught on locally and eventually spread to pizzerias worldwide. The name has nothing to do with the US state; he used canned pineapple from the Hawaiian Pineapple Company. Germany had an earlier version, a ham, pineapple and cheese toast called Toast Hawaii, popularised on TV in 1955.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.