Foo - Should you use utensils to eat pizza?

where I grew up, pizza was finger food. discuss.

I operate a pizza slice joint, definitely finger food. I laugh when I see people grab fork or knife, if it's too hot then give it a sec.

you have to eat pizza as if you were a pirate! Let the melted cheese hang down your chin and the grease dribble down your arm...and say "Arrr" before each savage bite.
Ernest

yes.


wait...

no.

Depends on the pizza. Regular pizza, sure, finger food.

I'd like to see you eat one of these with your bare hands, though:

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/8562/gifts4ys9.jpg

I should make some chgo pizza.

I personally use chopsticks. Especially for brick oven.

I should make some chgo pizza.Don't forget to bring enough for the whole class.

Depends on the pizza. Regular pizza, sure, finger food.

I'd like to see you eat one of these with your bare hands, though:

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/8562/gifts4ys9.jpg

Gino's East has a hard crust, you can eat the slices with just your hands.

Finger food, no doubt. We were at a fancy shmancy place once and they had pizza on the menu, not only was it really, really bad, but they served it with silverware! :lol: We bagged it and went to OutBack :thumb: The dogs ate it though. :D

Depends on the pizza. Regular pizza, sure, finger food.

I'd like to see you eat one of these with your bare hands, though:

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/8562/gifts4ys9.jpg

what the hell is that stuff? sauce cake?

you must be new to the U.S.

this is pizza:

http://www.lifehacker.com/assets/resources/2006/09/pizza.png

and no, no utensils.

that is a chicago pizza...[which are sauce cakes]

Oh lord i love pizza...

Gino's East has a hard crust, you can eat the slices with just your hands.I've eaten there. Maybe I just wasn't brave enough to try. :lol:


you must be new to the U.S.Incorrect.

Besides, pizza has many different forms.

I've eaten there. Maybe I just wasn't brave enough to try. :lol:

Incorrect.

Besides, pizza has many different forms.

It was a joke. I know exactly what it is. ;)

It's a bad take on a great food!

"If it's too hot, give it a sec"?

That would require restraint, which I have none of when it comes to a proper Chicago pizza. I dig in immediately with a fork and knife.

Depends on the pizza. Regular pizza, sure, finger food.

I'd like to see you eat one of these with your bare hands, though:

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/8562/gifts4ys9.jpg

actually, given it's had a few minutes to cool down, I'd totally bob for that.

pizza, fried chicken and ribs are meant to be eaten with bare hands and cold beer.

I use a fork to lift the top layer of cheese a bit and let some steam out. Then I eat it with my hands.

everything is meant to be eaten with bare hands and cold beer.Fixed, Texas-style.

Finger food.

BTW, if you want to see me making pizza, click here (http://metachat.org/index.php/2006/01/09/in_this_thread_i_will_make_pizza).

Fold it NY style and get after it.

I was out with my boss today and we ordered some sliced pizza from the deli... he takes his half of the pizza (two slices) and makes a sandwich with it... messenger style.

I personally use chopsticks.

I've done that. I prefer using my fingers though since I am lazy.

I have used chopsticks for a lot of "finger" foods like McDonald's McNuggets before...

depends on the pizza...

if the toppings consist of: tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, pepperoni, mushrooms, real bacon slices, olives, cheese and the dough is crispy thin, then fork and knife is better since the pizza is too unstable to hold with the hand.

if on the other hand it's just a regular chain store pepperoni, cheese, bell pepper, mushroom with regular dough, aka: deluxe, then only hands should suffice.

Depends on the pizza. Regular pizza, sure, finger food.

I'd like to see you eat one of these with your bare hands, though:

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that's not pizza.

I always manhandle mines

if the toppings consist of: tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, pepperoni, mushrooms, real bacon slices, olives, cheese and the dough is crispy thin, then fork and knife is better since the pizza is too unstable to hold with the hand.


Use both.

:)

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Pizza must not be eaten with utensils else you are to be regarded as a clueless tourist, or just clueless.

However, in the privacy of my own home, I've taken to using a pizza knife on my slice cutting it into slivers to make the experience more interesting. This, however, is a novelty induced aberration. I'll lose or tire of the pizza knife and return to eating it in the traditional greasy full handed manner.

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Pizza must not be eaten with utensils else you are to be regarded as a clueless tourist, or just clueless.

However, in the privacy of my own home, I've taken to using a pizza knife on my slice cutting it into slivers to make the experience more interesting. This, however, is a novelty induced aberration. I'll lose or tire of the pizza knife and return to eating it in the traditional greasy full handed manner.

i'll pass that along to all of the italians i see eating pizza with a fork and knife.

It was a joke. I know exactly what it is. ;)

It's a bad take on a great food!

BOOOO.

If you guys are ever in Indianapolis, go to either Broad Ripple or Speedway and go to Union jack Pub. Order the 14" Chicago Style. When I worked there, we threw one on a scale once and it weighed 30 lbs. Check the image on the homepage:

http://www.unionjackspeedway.com/index.html

That said, if you eat a thin crust, or even a regular crust with fork and knife, you shall be regarded as a patsy. If you eat a Chicago style with your hands, you're either 3 years old, or the manliest of men.

i'll pass that along to all of the italians i see eating pizza with a fork and knife.

Psst! What do the Italians know about eating pizza!

Psst! What do the Italians know about eating pizza!

More than New Yorkers, less than New Haveners.

if you want to.

There are finger foods (celery, cookies, nuts) and fork foods (roast beef, broiled fish) and foods that can be considered either, depending on the formality of the setting (fried chicken, ribs, pizza.) Let the host/hostess be your guide.

This is the traditional approach. A more modern approach, popularized by the A&S and SSFG communities, liberalizes the definition of finger foods to include mashed potatoes, puddings, and hallucinogenic mushrooms.

More than New Yorkers, less than New Haveners.

Oh I remember now this old argument! Let me see... Grimaldi's, Totono's, Di Fara's, Lucali's, John's, J&V ... I feel the emergence of CTS, so I must stop.

I like shovel foods.

I've done both...depends on my mood.

I think that utencils for pizza is going out of your way to be civilized or prove a point or something.

I'll eat almost anything solid by hand if I'm eating alone. Cereal out of the box by hand and rice milk straight from the jug. Chicken, fish, or once in a blue moon steak, by hand, no plate, right off the grill or pan. Same goes for potato slices. In my fatter days I would fold up 3 pieces of pizza and eat them at the same time.

Of course I don't do things like that when I'm eating with others, it's kind of gross, but it's not exactly something immoral or dysfunctional. If you try to keep things sanitary, a lot of table manners type rules are quite unnecessary.

everything is meant to be FRIED, then eaten with bare hands and cold beer..


Fixed, Texas-style.


Fixed it for both of y'all

The only people I saw eating pizza with their hands when I was in Milano were the N.Y.tourists.
nuff said.

I think that utencils for pizza is going out of your way to be civilized or prove a point or something.
You're absolutely right. It couldn't possibly be that I don't want to get grease and sauce on my hands. That would be ridiculous.

You're absolutely right. It couldn't possibly be that I don't want to get grease and sauce on my hands. That would be ridiculous.

That's what your expensive shirt is for. After all, you don't wear a sport coat for style, youw ear it to cover the grease stains!

Fixed it for both of y'all
I don't like people frying my bbq ribs.

If I catch any of youse guys trying to fry my bbq ribs,..... I'll kill ya.

You're absolutely right. It couldn't possibly be that I don't want to get grease and sauce on my hands. That would be ridiculous.

I honestly feel sorry for anyone who is so disconnected from reality that they can't stand the idea of food slightly dirtying their hands. Someone who this describes is probably a white collar worker who has the dirty work done for them, start to finish. Miners, farmers, oil workers, construction workers, manufacturers, all these people get dirty, and sometimes hurt, so that white collar people can think that buildings just grown from the ground, cars come from dealers, and food, clothes, and electronics just come from a box. This type of thinking defines ridiculous, not some fear of having to wash your hands in place of a bunch of dishes.

I find lack of pizza ingestion can lead to stereotyping, regardless of whether it is eaten with or without fingers.

I honestly feel sorry for anyone who is so disconnected from reality that they can't stand the idea of food slightly dirtying their hands. Someone who this describes is probably a white collar worker who has the dirty work done for them, start to finish. Miners, farmers, oil workers, construction workers, manufacturers, all these people get dirty, and sometimes hurt, so that white collar people can think that buildings just grown from the ground, cars come from dealers, and food, clothes, and electronics just come from a box. This type of thinking defines ridiculous, not some fear of having to wash your hands in place of a bunch of dishes.

OH SNAP!!

'ʇsod sıɥʇ ɹǝʇɟɐ ʇnq ɔıɹɐqɹɐq ƃuıǝq ɹoɟ noʎ ɯɐls oʇ ƃuıoƃ sɐʍ ı ʇsɹıɟ ʇɐ

You must use your hands. The same thing goes for wings and ribs. The messier the better.
Though I do not eat either anymore.

Oh I remember now this old argument! Let me see... Grimaldi's, Totono's, Di Fara's, Lucali's, John's, J&V ... I feel the emergence of CTS, so I must stop.

there is no argument. new york pizza is inferior. the end.

I honestly feel sorry for anyone who is so disconnected from reality that they can't stand the idea of food slightly dirtying their hands. Someone who this describes is probably a white collar worker who has the dirty work done for them, start to finish. Miners, farmers, oil workers, construction workers, manufacturers, all these people get dirty, and sometimes hurt, so that white collar people can think that buildings just grown from the ground, cars come from dealers, and food, clothes, and electronics just come from a box. This type of thinking defines ridiculous, not some fear of having to wash your hands in place of a bunch of dishes.
You want to talk ridiculous? I honestly feel sorry for anyone who is so disconnected from reality that they infer some kind of cartoonish social commentary from how someone eats pizza.