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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2016 13:59:45 GMT -5
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Post by Invisible Goat on Aug 16, 2016 14:01:14 GMT -5
VERY Rarely. Last week I got pizza at an Italian restaurant and it was piping hot and trying to lift it separated the cheese from the crust instantly. That is the only acceptable scenario.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Aug 16, 2016 14:03:09 GMT -5
The only acceptable reason to use a knife and fork with pizza is if it's Chicago-style.
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Post by LazBro on Aug 16, 2016 14:05:05 GMT -5
Rarely but sometimes necessary. Super thick deep dish is much easier to eat knife-and-fork, and is intended to be eaten that way most times. Plus, you get super greasy picking it up by the hand, which I don't like.
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Post by Gumbercules on Aug 16, 2016 14:15:11 GMT -5
What about when pizza's on a bagel?
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Post by Ben Grimm on Aug 16, 2016 15:19:05 GMT -5
Generally, I'd say no, but we go to Momo's sometimes here, which serves slices that are like the equivalent of being from a 30" pizza, and there's no way to avoid it with those. Generally, I'll have to eat the first quarter or so with a knife and fork before it can be picked up without falling apart.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Aug 16, 2016 17:49:26 GMT -5
Only if it's deep dish.
Fun fact, Chicago style thin crust is also a thing, and is much more commonly eaten than deep dish.
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Post by moimoi on Aug 16, 2016 19:25:14 GMT -5
On three conditions:
1. you're somehow at a formal gathering where pizza is being served and you're in formal attire
2. the pizza is so greasy/watery that it would fall apart in your hand
3. you're eating deep dish for some reason
In all three cases, my advice would be to eat something else.
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Sept 16, 2016 8:39:37 GMT -5
I'd say never with a knife and only rarely with a fork. And even then only if it's a messy over hot/over cheesed situation where a classic hand fold won't work for a bit.
It makes sense for deep-dish, but that is not pizza.
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Post by Pastafarian on Sept 16, 2016 8:44:05 GMT -5
The only acceptable reason to use a knife and fork with pizza is if it's Chicago-style. Yeah, but is that really pizza? *ducks* |
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Sept 16, 2016 9:07:52 GMT -5
The only acceptable reason to use a knife and fork with pizza is if it's Chicago-style. Yeah, but is that really pizza? *ducks* I'm not from Chicago so I don't have a personal stake in the matter, but having consumed it, I'd consider it pizza. Or, at least, it more closely resembles pizza than a calzone or stromboli does. |
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Post by Pastafarian on Sept 16, 2016 10:13:06 GMT -5
Yeah, but is that really pizza? *ducks* I'm not from Chicago so I don't have a personal stake in the matter, but having consumed it, I'd consider it pizza. Or, at least, it more closely resembles pizza than a calzone or stromboli does. I see it as pizza in the same way one of those hamburgers made with two grilled sandwiches instead of buns is a burger. It's not technically a different thing, but it's not something I want to be involved in. Anyway, I'm more of a pasta guy. |
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Sept 16, 2016 10:40:51 GMT -5
If Mitt Romney can do it, so can you!
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Post by Smacks on Sept 16, 2016 11:34:10 GMT -5
I like to use utensils because I dip my pizza in condiments and it's easier to do that rather than pouring something over top of the slice. Also it makes me eat slower and not inhale half a pizza before I even realize it. Also, I don't eat crusts.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Sept 16, 2016 11:55:59 GMT -5
Also, I don't eat crusts. You monster. |
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Post by Smacks on Sept 16, 2016 12:01:54 GMT -5
Also, I don't eat crusts. You monster. I knew these confessions would elicit strong reactions.  |
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Post by Logoboros on Sept 16, 2016 13:21:43 GMT -5
When I was in Britain on a summer study program as an undergrad (sadly, I haven't had the resources to go back since), I took a trip up from Oxford to Inverness one weekend. Being three weeks into the program, I was feeling a bit homesick, so getting off the train I opted for comfort food for dinner. Found a pizzeria. Went in, ordered a small pizza, and was happily chomping away, when, taking in my surroundings, I realized I was the only person in the whole place eating the pizza with my hands. Everyone else was fork-and-knifing it.
For a moment I felt like a total barbarian. And I put my slice down and finished the pizza with a knife and fork. But, I did ultimately decided that, no, they were the Philistines, and I should not have caved to the pressure to conform. I am an American, and I eat my pizza with my hands (unless it's Chicago deep dish or uneatably floppy, as some have already pointed out).
I don't know if the knife-and-fork thing was just a fluke or an Inverness phenomenon, or a Scottish phenomenon, or a more widespread British norm. I assumed, at the time, the latter, and lumped it in with the British perversity of not serving water with ice.
ETA: Also, I think my willingness to believe that most Brits ate pizza with a knife and fork was reinforced by a detail in Douglas Adams' The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul when he has an American character complaining about the fact that there was no pizza delivery in London, which infuriated her. So I was primed already to believe that there was some fundamental failure to comprehend the essential nature of pizza in the British cultural psyche.
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Post by Pastafarian on Sept 16, 2016 16:47:14 GMT -5
When I was in Britain on a summer study program as an undergrad (sadly, I haven't had the resources to go back since), I took a trip up from Oxford to Inverness one weekend. Being three weeks into the program, I was feeling a bit homesick, so getting off the train I opted for comfort food for dinner. Found a pizzeria. Went in, ordered a small pizza, and was happily chomping away, when, taking in my surroundings, I realized I was the only person in the whole place eating the pizza with my hands. Everyone else was fork-and-knifing it. For a moment I felt like a total barbarian. And I put my slice down and finished the pizza with a knife and fork. But, I did ultimately decided that, no, they were the Philistines, and I should not have caved to the pressure to conform. I am an American, and I eat my pizza with my hands (unless it's Chicago deep dish or uneatably floppy, as some have already pointed out). I don't know if the knife-and-fork thing was just a fluke or an Inverness phenomenon, or a Scottish phenomenon, or a more widespread British norm. I assumed, at the time, the latter, and lumped it in with the British perversity of not serving water with ice. ETA: Also, I think my willingness to believe that most Brits ate pizza with a knife and fork was reinforced by a detail in Douglas Adams' The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul when he has an American character complaining about the fact that there was no pizza delivery in London, which infuriated her. So I was primed already to believe that there was some fundamental failure to comprehend the essential nature of pizza in the British cultural psyche. That's part of the reason the Declaration of Independence was signed, or so I hear. |
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Sept 16, 2016 17:12:10 GMT -5
I usually eat the doughy part first, then the crust, then eat the cheese and toppings with a fork. People who have seen me do this say I am the only one.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2016 20:40:34 GMT -5
I mean, they eat pizza with a knife and fork in Naples where it was invented, so... Most of the restaurants I ate pizza at in Europe they didn't slice it for you, come to think of it. That was mostly France (which has underrated pizza by the way!) but I think it was a knife-and-fork-situation in most sit-down restaurants elsewhere too, including most of Italy excluding Rome. |
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Post by nowimnothing on Sept 17, 2016 7:38:31 GMT -5
There is no way to eat the tip of this thing without a knife and fork, so yeah, sometimes it is necessary  |
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