I sometimes use a fork and knife when eating a slice of pizza.

[trumad]

Personally I think you are an idiot if you pick up a scalding hot piece of pizza and attempt to stick it in your mouth.

[Glassunion]

1. Heathen!!!!

Back to the abyss with you foul creature!!!

[FreakinDJ]

26. Good Pizza needs to be eaten with a fork

[Act_of_Reparation]

41. You must be from Chicago. (n/t)

[roguevalley]

64. when trump did that, Jon Stewart went ape. :D:D:D

[left-of-center2012]

2. I've never received a scalding slice of pizza (anywhere, any time)

So, I've never used a knife and fork to eat pizza.

[trumad]

5. Really?

I can't tell you how many times I've burnt the top of the inside of my mouth or have the cheese just pull right off the pizza.

[Renew Deal]

21. Tell them you want it "not too hot" unless it's a white slice

White slices need to be cooked. Otherwise, they are always hot enough.

[virtualobserver]

7. I blend my pizza, then inject it into my mouth with a large syringe...

but only while I'm driving.

[snooper2]

3. I use a spatula, it is the only correct way

[MrWendel]

4. NO!

...



and further more....

[Iggo]

10. Wow! You went full Stephen A Smith.

That's rare.

[kentauros]

6. That's one of the best ways to do it when its hot.

At home I use my veggie cleaver to slice it up into smaller and easier to manage pieces. Still eat with my hands, but just so much nicer to have a piece that's skinny instead of seeming like it's a sixth of a pizza at once!

[Xipe Totec]

8. I eat my peas with honey,

I've done it all my life,
it makes the peas taste funny,
but it keeps them on my knife.

[DawgHouse]

14. I haven't heard this poem in a LONG time!

[Xipe Totec]

66. I am a vast repository of arcane trivia. nt

[Iggo]

9. You lie!!!

Nobody does that!

[Heeeeers Johnny]

11. I put ketchup on my hotdog.

[TacoD]

15. Consider yourself on notice (nt)

[Glassunion]

31. This place is falling apart... No wonder all we do is argue.

[Dr. Strange]

49. Welcome to Ignore.

[Capt. Obvious]

50. I used to do that too

when I was 8.

My daughter does it now. I need to break her of this uncouth habit.

[Contrary1]

67. Adding fries on top saves valuable time. n/t

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Oh, So You Hate America AND Italy?

I see how it is. I'll remember this, Tru?

[beac]

30. In Italy,

they eat it with a knife and fork because pizzas are individual and come unsliced. Occasionally, an Italian will cut a thin slice, fold it, and eat it, but the knife and fork is used to do that so....

[ProfessorGAC]

47. Nuh, Uh!

Been to Italy over 40 times. Depends on where. No such thing in Milano. No such thing in Napoli.

I've seen the plastic forks offered for it in the train station in Venezia and in Florenzia.

And, way down south, the pizza is more like what we would call pizza bread. No fork there either.

[beac]

59. I LIVED in Italy.

I assure you I know whereof I speak.


ETA: And "Firenze" is the Italian for "Florence." AFAIK, there isn't a "Florenzia" anywhere in Italy.


ETA2: I also go back at least once a year and eat many pizzas with a fork and knife. I will admit, I have occasionally seen pizzas cut into wedges for American tourists. As I speak Italian relatively fluently, this tourist option is never offered to me.

[BlueMTexpat]

78. It's the same in Switzerland

when you have pizza in a sit-down situation. But there are also FF options where pizza is sold by the slice.

[trumad]

53. Ha!

[madinmaryland]

69. cboy4 hijacked trumad's account. That's why he seems like he is on sterroids!!

[2naSalit]

13. I do it every time...

but I'm

a) afflicted with front teeth that don't "cut" anymore

b) Not from NYC.

and I eat nearly everything with a fork or spoon and I prefer that my food also be on a plate or in a bowl before I start to eat it.

[randome]

16. I curse and humiliate my pizza then microwave it into submission before consuming it.

It's the only way to be sure.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A 90% chance of rain means the same as a 10% chance:
It might rain and it might not.[/center][/font][hr]

[kwassa]

17. This might be a TOS violation.

Should we send this to the admins?

[unapatriciated]

18. I suspected that about you all along...

[Renew Deal]

19. I like you, but this is not the way to eat pizza

Not sure where you're from. There is only one way to eat pizza. With your hands.

[Flyingbird5066]

20. NYC style

[Bluenorthwest]

36. No NY Style slice eating involves a fold and no utelsils, Chicago is home of the flatware pizza.

Both are fine with me. But that's the way it is.

[Sanity Claws]

55. You must not be from around here

No New Yorker would ever eat a pizza with a knife and fork. Anyone who does is a subject of ridicule. Truly.

[brush]

58. Yes, NYC style, no fork needed.

You take your slice out of the brown paper bag, fold it the long way and feed the small end into your mouth as the grease runs down your hand and wrist. Then you chomp.

Delicious!

Sorry Chicago, you can't do that with deep dish.

Nothing like NYC pizza by the slice.

[yellowcanine]

22. If it is really hot a fork will not keep you from burning the roof of your mouth

on the cheese. Just sayin'.

[Buns_of_Fire]

23. There are people who still slice pizza?

[LiberalArkie]

24. The first pizza I ever had was when I was working in NYC as a kid.

Pizza is supposed to be messy. If you can't grab it with your hand, wait a bit till it cools. A fork is for spaghetti. A knife is for meat. Hands are for pizza, ribs, wings, and pork chops..

Any other ways are un-American.

[Renew Deal]

25. Well said

[TheCowsCameHome]

27. Why do you discriminate against spoons?

Your kind gives all of us bad name.

You need counseling and a good therapist, pronto.

[LannyDeVaney]

28. Ban the OP!

You probably call beef BBQ too. And put ketchup on your steak.

And mix a $100 bottle of single malt with Sprite.


I on the other hand, could get by without any silverware in my house. I could eat macaroni and cheese with my hands.

[trumad]

39. Actually no to all the above.

I'm actually quite a food snob.

Oh---and whiskey and scotch---neat please.

[Sissyk]

29. lol! #7 here!

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I sometimes use a fork and knife when eating a slice of pizza.
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Obvious

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Fri Apr 1, 2016, 08:23 AM, and the Jury voted 0-7 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Sorry alerter not obvious to me ... seems to be connected to that entire "eating pizza with forks" non-story. If it is more ominous than that I wish you would have explained it.
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Er, was this really alert-worthy? --Starry, pizza fork-user
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: What's obvious? I know Trumad can be an asshole sometimes but this seems harmless enough.
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[Glassunion]

33. Alerter beat me to it...

#6 is me hero today. LOL

[trumad]

34. Juror 6---what the hell!

"Sometimes" ?

[Renew Deal]

43. That was me

I thought I'd get at least one vote to hide based on principle. The comment could have been more descriptive, but I didn't want it to actually be hidden. I just laughed at the "TOS Violation" post and sent it.

[gratuitous]

32. You MONSTER!

I hope you take a little lesson from what happened to Gov. Kasich yesterday. He started on his slice with a fork. Okay, he also blamed "the minority community" for Ohio's unconscionably high infant mortality rate.

Guess which thing Gov. Kasich got all the media's attention for? (Hint: It wasn't the community shaming.)

[killbotfactory]

35. If i was wearing clothes that cost a lot of money, i would eat pizza with a fork

But I will never wear clothes that cost a lot of money.

[hfojvt]

37. "Now you listen to me, Strebek"

"There are two things that clearly differentiate humans from lower animals. One, we use cutlery and two, we are capable of controlling our sexual urges. Now you might be an exception to the rest of us. But don't drag me into your private hell." Joe Friday

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

38. A fork is useful ...

... when the guy next to you tries to steal your slice of pizza.

If the pizza is too hot, use chopsticks, or channel-lock pliers.

[Starry Messenger]

40. It's pretty much scalding fondue on a weak substructure.

Yes on fork. I just told my husband I'd been on the jury for this op, and he looked dubious about my pro-fork position. I guess that's a thing? I've convinced him to not move out over it though.

[Nye Bevan]

42. And...... the voting is in! (A rare example of 7-0 to leave a Trumad post)

On Fri Apr 1, 2016, 08:14 AM an alert was sent on the following post:

I sometimes use a fork and knife when eating a slice of pizza.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027730694

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ALERTER'S COMMENTS

Obvious

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Fri Apr 1, 2016, 08:23 AM, and the Jury voted 0-7 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Sorry alerter not obvious to me ... seems to be connected to that entire "eating pizza with forks" non-story. If it is more ominous than that I wish you would have explained it.
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Er, was this really alert-worthy? --Starry, pizza fork-user
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Bogus

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[LanternWaste]

44. You're a shill for the corpo/industrial-pizza complex.

You're a shill for the corpo/industrial-pizza complex saying this to cover up that the planes on 911 were really holograms flown by Lee Harvey Oswald and Ginger from Gilligan's Island.

[malthaussen]

45. Funny, I eat pizza with my mouth. n/t

[Javaman]

46. then it's really bad pizza...

with poorly melted cheese that floats upon a layer of bad sauce.

the cheese should infuse with the sauce and adhere to the crust.

that is good pizza and it will cool just enough before eating it.

what you are experiencing is really poorly made pizza.

when you have the cheese floating on the sauce it keeps the heat from the sauce from venting properly and what you get when you bite into it, is the equivalent of eating lava.

any pizza maker worth their sauce would never ever allow that to happen.

it's a delicate balance of sauce to cheese ratio that allows them to compliment each other (along with any toppings) to give the best possible flavor and mouth feel.

[Trailrider1951]

48. Ha! If I serve you my deep dish special, made in the cast iron skillet

you better bring a spoon, too, along with plenty of napkins. The Gov may be an ass, but there are better republican food faux pas:

[pintobean]

51. That's like eating fried chicken with nunchucks

[LiberalFighter]

52. Under those circumstances... yes.

[Taitertots]

54. All the people complaining don't understand b/c they eat New York style pizza

Eat a real pizza


J/k

[Brother Buzz]

56. Hunter Pence never leaves home without his pizza fork

[seanjoycek476]

57. Interesting

I know a friend who eats his pizza that way too. Never tried it myself.

[JonathanRackham]

60. Pizza is the world.

Full of diversity, a million combinations.

Personally, I like mine day old, the next morning for breakfast, cold.

Yes to anchovies.

[islandmkl]

61. Jebus Cristina Aguilera, Trumad...what is this...some kind of exorcising of your demons session?

please don't start telling us any more of your twisted personal habits and peccadilloes...

i don't even want to know HOW you eat BBQ'd ribs...

[Capt. Obvious]

62. There goes your nomination

[monmouth4]

63. I always carry a knife, you know, in case of cheesecake..n/t

[NBachers]

65. I eat it with a knife & fork 'till it's not too hot. Down with militant pizza fundamentalists.

Are we knocking the props out from under your poorly-supported pizza construct?

Is this causing security issues for y'all?

[MoonRiver]

68. Same here, or wait until it cools off.

But talking about pizza faux pas, my 8 y/o grandson dips his pizza piece, which he cuts with a knife and fork, into ranch dressing!

[frogmarch]

70. I do when it's sloppy pizza I made at home bc I suck at it.

Years ago in Wyoming of all places, there was a sign in a restaurant with pizza on the menu that read:

Please remember:
Pizza Is Not A Finger Food

Mr. froggy and I thought wtf, what is this the Waldorf Freaking Astoria, for crying out loud? And we ordered pizza (which wasn't too bad, really) and ate it with our fingers.

[wheniwasincongress]

71. Pros of eating pizza with a fork

Keeps your hands clean

Doesn't transfer any unwanted germs from your hands to your mouth

Allows you to more thoughtfully chew your food (they say most people don't chew as much as they should, something about the saliva delivering more enzymes to better help digest food)

Cons:

People make fun of you... I think that's the only con.

[rug]

72. You probably eat hot dogs with a knfe and fork too

after unfolding a napkin on your lap.

[trumad]

73. Well if the hotdog didn't have a bun maybe..

Wouldn't you?

[rug]

74. Never!

[trumad]

75. how about a Kielbasa?

[rug]

79. I'd need a pole.

[Warpy]

76. Especially if it's deep dish and really, really sloppy

I've been known to use a spoon in that case.

[struggle4progress]

77. If the slice is too hot to touch, put it between two doughnuts

[NBachers]

83. One of our local In 'N' Out Burgers has a Krispy Kreme sharing the same lot.

And, yes, I've been known to foray into the Krispy Kreme after loading up over at In 'N' Out. I like the chocolate covered with white cream inside. This is probably a huge no-n0.

[struggle4progress]

84. I tell myself the white cream is loaded with vitamins and minerals

[So Far From Heaven]

80. Go ahead. Call me an idiot.

Everyone else does occasionally.

[gollygee]

81. It depends on the pizza for me

Some pizza is easier to eat with a knife and fork.

[Bucky]

82. Because you're too uncivilized to use chop sticks