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The way I eat pizza is limited by the TEMPERATURE of the pizza. For example, I will usually begin eating a hot, melty slice with a fork...until it's comfortable enough to pick up in my hand. By the same token, I couldn't fold over a NY slice if it were too hot either, because that would just trap the heat inside for longer, and would burn the roof of my mouth and tongue.
The way I eat pizza is limited by the TEMPERATURE of the pizza. For example, I will usually begin eating a hot, melty slice with a fork...until it's comfortable enough to pick up in my hand. By the same token, I couldn't fold over a NY slice if it were too hot either, because that would just trap the heat inside for longer, and would burn the roof of my mouth and tongue.
I find when I order a large or medium pizza for myself, it starts out too hot but by the time i finish it it's getting a bit cold and the cheese is already congealing. Some people say they enjoy cold pizza but I don't at all, don't like the texture and it doesn't have the same flavour. Just tastes wrong.
What is this recent weird trend of eating pizza with a fork and knife? Like seriously?!?! My roommate in college was the first person I met who did this (about 9 years ago) and I looked at her like she had 2 heads. She just giggled. Recently I've met a few more people into this.
Pizza is one of those fun things that you're supposed to eat with your hands! Do you eat popcorn with a large spoon or wings with a fork? Uhh, no! Same for pizzaaaaa!!!!!
How I eat it depends on what kind of pizza it is and what kind of restaurant I'm in. Casual places, the kind where you order at the counter and you have unlimited access to paper napkins at your table, I'll fold and eat with my hands as soon as it's cool enough. If it's messy, that's what the napkins are for.
Full-service restaurants, the kind with cloth napkins, I'll take one slice at a time, put it on my bread plate and eat it with a knife and fork. It's less messy that way. I don't like to get gloppy sauce and cheese all over my hands and then have to guck up my one and only napkin wiping my hands on it repeatedly (yes, I know -- you can always ask the waiter for another napkin). Crisp, thin crust pizza is hard to fold, though, so I'll always eat that with the dreaded knife and fork no matter where I am. When I'm down to the "bone," I'll pick that up with my hands as you would a bread stick.
I worked in a fancy Italian restaurant establishment here in the UK and if customers used their hands to eat pizza they were quietly escorted off from the premises.
I worked in a fancy Italian restaurant establishment here in the UK and if customers used their hands to eat pizza they were quietly escorted off from the premises.
^^^ Bunch of snobs? Eating food with right utensils is just a form of executing proper table manners.
I eat my pizza with fork and knife, and leave an excess bread on the plate. Except its super thin, crispy and flavorful...
I'm glad table manners are a bit more relaxed. I mean not acting like a snob, but things like eating with your hands. If someone gets so offended that you eat PIZZA with your hands they probably need to get a life lol.
Thankfully none of the places in Italy had a problem with that. If they did, I'd probably tell them to stuff it lmao jk.
^^^ Bunch of snobs? Eating food with right utensils is just a form of executing proper table manners.
I eat my pizza with fork and knife, and leave an excess bread on the plate. Except its super thin, crispy and flavorful...
Proper table manners? According to who? You? The table manners task force?
LoL
I go to my wife's country & half the time a meal isn't even served with silverware. You people would starve! LoL
It's pizza...get over it. If you want to use a K&F, that's ok...but shame on you for looking down your nose because someone wants to eat pizza with their hands.
Yeah...I certainly call that snobbish.
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When I'm down to the "bone," I'll pick that up with my hands as you would a bread stick.
