[00:00.00]This is What¡¯s Trending Today. [00:03.75]The last time this many people were talking about Iceland [00:09.09] was in June, when the small country¡¯s soccer team defeated [00:17.29] England in the Euro 2016 tournament. [00:21.88]People were talking about players like Sigurdsson and [00:32.29] Sigthorsson, who each scored goals in the game. [00:32.86]Now, many people are talking about Johannesson. [00:38.79] That is Gudni Johannesson, the President of Iceland. [00:43.89]Johannesson recently visited a high school. [00:48.37]One of the students asked him what he thought about [00:53.70]pineapple on pizza. [00:57.06]According to the Guardian newspaper, Johannesson answered [01:01.71]questions on a rangeof topics, including his favorite [01:07.78]soccer team. (Turns out it is Manchester United.) [01:11.14]He also said he was ¡°fundamentally opposed¡± to pineapple [01:21.96] on pizza. And he would ban it, if he could. [01:27.22]After the news of his opposition to pineapple made news [01:34.20] around the world, heclarified his position on his Facebook page. [01:40.90]Johannesson wrote: ¡°I like pineapples, just not on pizza.¡± [01:49.40]He then explained that he was glad he did not have the power [01:54.73] to ban pineapples from pizza. He said he would not like [01:59.97]to live in a country that allowed its president to pass laws [02:05.77] just because he did not like something. [02:10.49]People are still talking about pineapple on pizza, however. [02:15.84] They wrote messages on Johannesson¡¯s Facebook page in both [02:21.76] English and Icelandic. [02:23.84]One person wrote: ¡°Thank you for saying out loud that [02:30.51] pineapples shouldn¡¯t be allowed on pizzas!¡± [02:34.98]Another wrote: ¡°I love pineapple on pizza, but I applaud [02:42.33] your attitude to government.¡± [02:44.82]And still another endorsed his support of Manchester United. [02:52.07]One radio program in Canada interviewed Sam Panopoulos. [02:58.81] He is a Greek immigrantcredited with adding pineapple to pizza. [03:07.12]He said in the 1950s and 1960s, nobody in Canada was [03:14.06] eating very much pizza. And no one was mixing sweet [03:19.62]and sour flavors. [03:22.44]Panopoulos said ¡°it was plain, plain food.¡± [03:26.19]But after he started putting pineapple on pizza, [03:30.36]everything changed. Pizza became more interesting. [03:36.21]He sold pineapple pizza at his restaurant in Ontario, [03:42.94]Canada for the next 40 or 45 years. [03:49.21]¡°You can put whatever you want on it, and everybody eats it,¡± [03:51.81] he said. [03:55.15]Now, we can thank the President of Iceland for the lesson [04:01.20]on the history of pineapples on pizza. [04:05.10]And that¡¯s What¡¯s Trending Today. [04:07.25]I¡¯m Dan Friedell.