--- title: Gordon Ramsay Is Willing to Eat Pineapple Pizza for Charity description: The top chef will consume the controversial pizza, which he hates — but only if his supporters come through with donations for a cause. canonical: https://time.com/4847819/gordon-ramsay-pineapple-pizza/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-06T19:43:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:10.984Z og:title: Why Gordon Ramsay Is Willing to Eat 'Awful' Pineapple Pizza og:description: He'll eat the controversial pie — but only for a good cause og:url: https://time.com/4847819/gordon-ramsay-pineapple-pizza/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Gordon Ramsay Is Willing to Eat 'Awful' Pineapple Pizza twitter:description: He'll eat the controversial pie — but only for a good cause twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Gordon Ramsay Will Chow Down on Awful Pineapple Pizza But There's a Catch  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 6, 2017 7:43 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 6, 2017 7:43 PM UTC It’s not every day that a chef agrees to ingest a food he detests. But [Gordon Ramsay](http://time.com/4716906/gordan-ramsay-airplane-food/) has publicly stated he’s willing to down a slice of the [controversial pineapple pizza](http://time.com/4691875/pineapple-pizza-poll/) — which he hates — for a good cause. In an Instagram posted Wednesday, the [famously sharp-tongued](http://time.com/4677008/gordon-ramsay-twitter-diss/) culinary star offered to chow down on the [much-maligned](http://time.com/4678478/iceland-president-pineapple-pizza/) pizza topping, but only if his followers come through with donations to the Gordon and Tana Ramsay Foundation, which raises money for the Great Ormond Street Hospital, a children’s hospital in the U.K. “If we can hit 500 donations in the next 48 hours, I will eat this f–king god-awful PINEAPPLE pizza on Facebook Live,” he wrote on the caption of an image of himself giving an unkind look to the fruit-topped pizza. “Please no,” he included as a doodled thought bubble on the picture. And there’s another perk to donating beyond just seeing Ramsay down the pizza: [everyone who gives](https://www.omaze.com/experiences/gordon-ramsay?utm%5Fsource=instagram.com&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcontent=GordonRamsay&utm%5Fcampaign=experiences.gordon-ramsay&utm%5Fterm=PineapplePizza&oa%5Fh=ompvo7) is entered into a lottery to attend a taping of Ramsay’s show _The F Word_ and get the “VVIP” experience with the chef himself, including travel and hotel stay to Los Angeles for the occasion. While Ramsay clearly is not a fan of the combination of zesty tropical fruit, cheese, tomato sauce, and pizza dough, this is not Ramsay’s least-favorite food of all time. He’s stated before that the one thing he’ll never eat [is airplane food](http://time.com/4716906/gordan-ramsay-airplane-food/), an entirely different breed of cuisine. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4847819/gordon-ramsay-pineapple-pizza/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4847819/gordon-ramsay-pineapple-pizza/"},"headline":"Gordon Ramsay Will Chow Down on Awful Pineapple Pizza But There's a Catch","datePublished":"2017-07-06T19:43:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:45:10.984Z","description":"The top chef will consume the controversial pizza, which he hates — but only if his supporters come through with donations for a cause.","url":"https://time.com/4847819/gordon-ramsay-pineapple-pizza/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4847819/gordon-ramsay-pineapple-pizza/","name":"Gordon Ramsay Will Chow Down on Awful Pineapple Pizza But There's a Catch"}}]}] ```