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Iceland's president forced to clarify views on pineapple pizza ban
Faced with uproar at home and a social media storm abroad, the president of Iceland has been forced to clarify his outspoken stance on one of the defining questions of the age: whether pineapple should be allowed on pizza.
uproar /'ʌprɔː/ n.喧嚣，骚动 -六级
clarify /‘klærɪfaɪ/ v.澄清 -四级
stance /stɑːns/ n.立场，姿态，位置 -GRE
Last week, answering questions from pupils at a high school, the President said his favourite football team was Manchester United and he was “fundamentally opposed” to pineapple on pizzas.
The president then went further, saying that if he could, he would ban the tropical fruit as a pizza topping. Understandably, Twitter and half the world’s online media went into overdrive.
On Tuesday, a statement in English and Icelandic on his Facebook page titled A Statement on the Pizza Controversy clarified his stance, saying he liked pineapple, just not on his pizzas – but could not stop people who did putting it on theirs.
fundamentally /ˌf ʌndəˈmentlɪ/ adv.基本上，根本上 -四级
overdrive /ˌəuvə'draiv/ n. 超速传动，快速传播
“I do not have the power to make laws which forbid people to put pineapples on their pizza,” the President, a former history professor at the University of Iceland, wrote. “I am glad I do not hold such power.”
