I swear I looked like a bum when I grabbed a slice of pizza with my hands because everyone was using a knife and fork, one of my worst moments

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    You do not need to impress the clods who eat pizza with flatware. These people would eat a sandwich with flatware if someone “more important” did it.

  • Starya67@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Rich people don’t care how you eat your pizza. Stuck up people do, but you get plenty of those without money.

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      5 months ago

      And I don’t care if dead rich people’s family are sad; there’s still a right way to eat a pizza and it doesn’t involve a goddamn fork.

  • T156@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The trick is to not care, and to confidently do it like it was the most natural thing in the world, and it clearly was.

    The world of the wealthy runs on appearances. The worst thing you can do there is to be ashamed. Arguably better is to look at them with confident disdain for using a knife and fork to eat a pizza, in much the same way that they might for someone using a soup spoon for dessert.


    For the pizza, it’s arguably more regional than wealth related. In a few countries, like parts of Italy and Sweden, it’s more common to eat pizza using cutlery rather than using your hands.

    Whereas for other places, like other parts of Italy, it may be more common to use your hands for it instead. It very much depends on where, and the local culture more than anything else. But using your hands is as valid as using a knife and fork.

    • ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I don’t know if all do, but the few French people I had pizza with, all of them used knife and fork.

      In a nice Italian restaurant in Berlin, all the people I saw used knife and fork, I did too not to fit but those pizzas had a crazy thin base and a lot of sauce and things on top, trying to pick a slice with the hand would end very badly, so maybe in other places the people would have used the hand.

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    5 months ago

    When you’re sufficiently rich, you don’t even have to care about what the regular rich people think.

    You can probably adopt the habit even before you manage to reach that level of wealth

  • howsetheraven@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Next time, laugh in their fucking face while you scarf down a whole pie. They aren’t better than you, in any way. 99.99% chance they’re just luckier (which could always change).

  • je_skirata@lemmy.today
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    5 months ago

    Knife and fork for pizza?! Did they not wash their hands or something? That sounds like something only the insane would do

    • Steve@communick.news
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      5 months ago

      I do it when possible, so I don’t get my hands dirty.
      But I know I’m the werid one.
      And I’m comfortable with that.

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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      5 months ago

      IMO, it depends on how bendy the pizza is, how big the crust (i.e. handle) is and wether it’s a sit-down restaurant or not. I’ve had some pizzas that tasted great, but would have been really messy to eat with my hands.

  • Steve@communick.news
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    5 months ago

    Care about their opinions of your personal habits.

    They look at you funny:
    “Fuck off werido. This is how normal people eat pizza.”

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
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    5 months ago

    In front of rich people you shouldn’t blow your nose without a tissue and then simply throw the snot down on the ground.