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First Trump...
Now John Kasich...
Is the Republican inability to eat New York Pizza with your hands a thing?
Bjornsdotter
(6,123 posts)...preferred here!
GOD WHY? That's sacrilegious to me!
I know, I get a lot of weird looks. Ironically I get the same weird looks if I pick up a piece of pizza with my hands in Sweden.
If I am at a restaurant I use a knife and fork....at home I can go either way.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Although my grandfather did like to roll up spaghetti onto a spoon and eat it. TO each their own.
Bjornsdotter
(6,123 posts)No offense taken!
kentauros
(29,414 posts)Front incisor crowns, no implants possible.
At least, try to think of that one the next time you see someone being 'sacrilegious' with their pizza.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)He said the pizza was too hot. So... let it cool off. How does using a fork make it less hot?
kentauros
(29,414 posts)smaller pieces cool off faster when they are surrounded by air (off the plate) and being actively blown on. At least, that's how it works with my forks
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)cut it into smaller pieces and pick it up with your hand when it's cooled off. NO FORK!
kentauros
(29,414 posts)The very idea that this is an issue at all is laughable
cwydro
(51,308 posts)My mother (almost 90) eats just about everything with a knife and fork.
Hamburgers, pizza, grilled cheese sandwiches.
She always has done so. I don't hold it against her lol.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)if people keep eating! Not to mention eating it all and "cleaning their plate"
I really cannot imagine judging people by how they eat their food lol.
DU never fails to amaze.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)It's a common foodie no-no, as if it somehow changes the flavor.
I learned this years ago when I was supplying a local coffee house with a flourless chocolate cake I used to make. I would frost it as specified in my recipe (top and sides) but discovered from the coffeehouse that it wasn't selling well at all. So what did I do? I added some chocolate shavings to the side. Made it look prettier. The flavor of the cake remained exactly the same. And yet, it sold out, and faster than the other cake had.
When it comes to food, people are idiots. And traditions just make that idiocy worse.
Snobbery shows up in many ways.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)and PizzaGate is a thing.
pnwmom
(109,610 posts)Spearing little pieces IS easier with a fork. But picking up a whole slice is easier with your hand.
You can't seriously think it would look better for someone to cut pizza into little, less hot pieces, and then pick up each little piece with his fingers.
LiberalArkie
(16,594 posts)and legs and BBQ ribs.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Glassunion
(10,201 posts)MrWendel
(1,881 posts)running for President outed the ambiguity as being one of the four horsemen.
ejbr
(5,871 posts)and I mean DEVIL, maybe he didn't have time to wash hands after shaking hands with his grubby supporters?
catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)Real pizza is cooked in a wood fired brick oven covered with scamorza cheese (A smoked water buffalo mozzerrella ) and served at 4500-6000 degrees farenheit...Believe me I have the burn scars on my chin...
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Wow, I am not sure they should even be allowed to retain citizenship after that. I am sort of kidding.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,713 posts)without taking off the corn husk.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Everyone raised in the US knows what pizza is. Not everyone is familiar with tamales. I was lucky I had friends that taught me stuff.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Hell, I eat bacon with a fork. It's a clean hands thing.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)That really happened?!
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)(most Americans don't, and it's something that actually got a few US spies caught by the Germans during WWII)
Bjornsdotter
(6,123 posts)All of that switching of the fork back to the other hand gives them away every time.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)snip
Bill de Blasio Trolls All New Yorkers With Pizza Tweet
snip
MrWendel
(1,881 posts)that's really embarrassing. You're the Mayor of the God Damned city, the least you can do is act like you've eaten there!
KatyMan
(4,280 posts)It being o.k. to eat something the way you want to. It sounds like a "no true Scotsman" argument.
that's like calling "Papa Johns" real pizza. Being a foodie and partial food snob I feel comfortable saying that.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)Because, ultimately, that's all your tastebuds care about. Your mind cannot change the flavor because that's a chemical process that is set by the cooking of the pizza. Eating it with your hands or a knife and fork changes nothing, other than hurting the feelings of uptight foodies.
actually think this is a serious policy discussion right? None of this screams to you? Your putting this on par with real election issues? Speaking of up tight, lighten up.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)Usually they're strong traditionalists, and sometimes they're foodies. But most times it's people who seem to think it really is sacrilegious to eat pizza in ways other than the traditional way, and to do so in New York City, no less!!1!
Again, it's laughable that it's serious to people, even on this thread.
MrWendel
(1,881 posts)in the way that I want to try almost anything once and be like Guy on Drive in, dinners, and dives to hit as many gems as possible. Tho its harder now that I've been going to a gym. That said, eating pizza with anything other than your hands is still wrong. At least to me.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)I'm nowhere near as adventurous any more, preferring those handful of places I know have quality food. The rest I make myself.
And now I'm "juicing" with a new appliance. It seems to reign in my appetite. We'll see what it does for my weight...
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)Is the best pizza. ❤️
CoffeeCat
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(3,580 posts)Is how much grease drips down your arm.
WillowTree
(5,340 posts)Or.......yes.......I really should.
WTF??!!!