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I'm assume the downvotes are pineapple haters. I'm okay with being controversial. Sweet and spicy, gotta have both!
I generally recommend this fairly simple 'trick' to make almost any basic / more conventional topping mix into a better pizza.
3 cheese blend.
Never go full mozzarella.
Ever.
Unless your toppings are doing basically all the work of making a unique flavor profile.
Pick two more cheeses, fuck around untill you find a mixture and proportions that make a flavor that's incredible with your simpler toppings.
Asiago, ricotta, parmesean, even smokey gouda or creamy brie can work.
... just not cheddar.
Something is fucking wrong with you if you think cheddar works on a pizza, you're thinking of a hamburger and/or you are already too drunk to cook a pizza lol, you will pass out and wake up to a fire alarm going off and a smoldering cinder in your oven.
I can make cheddar bread work. Stuff them little dough balls and turn em into pretzels. Shred New York Sharp, add a spicy pepper mash, dear god you'll get fat.
Oh I mean yes, it cheddar absolutely can work in varying breads and such of all kinds, fucking love me my piroshkis and all kinds of savory other ways you can combine bread and cheddar... but cheddar on pizza?
No no no no no, I am apparently religious, and that is heresy, lol.