Would you scoff a stranger’s leftover pizza? Mix 102.3 brekky host Ali Clarke’s thinking about it.

Forget the pineapple debate, the Mix presenter’s ideas on restaurant leftovers had listeners – and her co-host – scoffing. Vote in the poll.

Does pineapple belong on pizza? Who cares, because there’s a new hot debate surrounding the greasy wheel, thanks to Mix 102.3’s The Ali Clarke Breakfast Show.

In a segment we’ve dubbed “Pizza De Resistance”, Clarke and Max Burford were chewing the fat about whether it’s socially acceptable to eat someone else’s pizza leftovers in a restaurant.

And they weren’t just talking about polishing off the remnants of your BFF’s more-ish margherita.

For anyone not picking up what we are putting down, they meant helping oneself to a stranger’s surplus slices.

The topic came up when Clarke was recalling an outing at a pub.

She had spied almost half of a “perfectly good” vegetarian pizza that had just been left behind by a “really lovely couple”.

Clarke asked herself “why couldn’t I just eat it?”, to which she was mocked by Burford for wanting to “eat people’s scraps”.

Chester Osborn with Ali Clarke at d'Arenberg Cube for the Sam Smith show. Picture: Ben Clark

“I don’t like waste,” Clarke answered, adding that when growing up she was told to finish everything on her plate because “there were kids starving in Africa”.

Clarke had also reasoned to herself: “That (really lovely couple’s leftover half a pizza) is going to go in the bin, I’m going to order myself a pizza, leave that half and then altogether we have wasted an entire pizza.”

Burford cheekily responded by saying Clarke’s spirit animal was a seagull.

The whole discussion was a slice of life that was definitely not to the taste of listeners Cathy, of Fullarton, and Salisbury’s Gina.

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While both sided with Clarke when it came to being against wasting meals, they said they would never eat “the really lovely couple’s” pizza.

That said, Cathy was happy to help herself to family and friends’ food they couldn’t finish.

Gina, who said eating abandoned leftovers was “absolutely disgusting”, shared a rather unsavoury piece of information.

She pointed out that people have a tendency to “say it and spray it” while chatting over a meal; meaning, if you eat the kind of free pizza Clarke is talking about, you can bet on getting some extra topping you hadn’t bargained on – spittle!