Anyone else get ridiculed for eating a pizza with a knife and fork?

Don't see a problem with it mi sen.

 

might as well use a spoon!!

has to be eaten with ya mits! just has to be!

 

Only if you are a nonce

 

Knife and fork if I'm in a restaurant, hands the rest of the time.

 

Pizza in a restaurant - knife and fork, unless you're an uncouth, rabid mongrel.

Pizza at home - shovel it in with your hands

 

Used to get bullied at school for eating Ravioli with a toothpick, if that helps.

 

Chopsticks and a blow torch.

Latter only used if someone nicks any of my olives.

 

I asked for a knife and fork in an artisan burger bar the other week, and the owner looked as if I'd just defecated on the table. It's run by a load of burger geeks who reckon it's sacrilege not to use your hands. Personally, I was far happier to commit sacrilege than end up covered in relish and coleslaw.

 

Agree, maybe it's from eating meals as a child where I was (rightly) taught to eat with my mouth closed and not make annoying noises, something I find the average pizza "fan" feels the opposite is appropriate, where's the fun in having your hands covered in sauce?

 

Knife and fork every time.

 

When did the word Pizza and restaurant go together?

 

Definitely not summat I'd specifically go out for, just summat to have in fridge for the odd night I can't be arsed to cook

 

Agree. Its just a cooked/baked sandwich for me.

 

What on earth are you doing to get yours hands covered in sauce? Very carefully lift the pizza by the crust and slide a couple of fingers under the slice to pick it up - no sauce contact at all. Saying that, I am a very careful, unmessy eater. I can't stand people who make noises when they eat either!

I normally ask for a knife when eating a burger to cut it in half, picking up a whole burger to eat seems excessive!

 

In Italian restaurants it's pretty much a staple!

 

My uncle uses a knife and fork to eat a Bacon sarnie, i'm like "wtf??"

 

Pizza Hut is a restaurant ain't it?

Never been myself but the one in Tarn seems popular.

I always go to Pizza Zone takeaway on Summer lane after a night out

 

As long as he doesnt use a knife n fork for soup, hes laughing.
By the way, who has ever ordered a Calzone, which apparently is a 'folded' pizza ?

 

As a full time resident in Italy who built his own wood fired Pizza oven and has Italians around regularly (as well as eating in Italian Pizzerias and Trattorias regularly) I have to say, there are no hard and fast rules, moral, social or otherwise, in respect of pizza eating. I have seen it all, and no usage strikes me as strange. I myself sometimes use my hands and sometimes I don't. The perception of rudeness is more asociated with the general attitude (slurping, technique of insertion in the mouth) than with the use of cutlery. That said crisp thin neapolitan type pizzas are hard going with a knife so pick up is fine (after cutting into triangles with a knife first when too hot to pick up). Folding the triangle before picking up is also common. Oh and some toppings make picking up difficult so then - use a knife and fork!
Now spaghetti etiquette is a different thing altogether........!