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Pizza & Cutlery?

July 24 2011

Am I the only one that finds this a little strange? I mean there I was in what could loosely be called a sports bar, and I head there almost religiously every friday or saturday because I know the owner and apparently I'm like a son to him... but long story short, I order pizza there maybe once a month. For all the time I've been going there, its been fine but then, the other night, the waitress who took my order asked me if I wanted cutlery? I don't get that. Was she being polite or am I just overanalysing nothing at all? Thanks Team!

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  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    had just been in to deliver a course in Quirky Pizza Handling 101..If Pizzas were meant to be eaten with a knife and fork.....they would put them inthe home delivery box with the pizza..Yes Andrew, eating pizza with utensils is definately a quirk.

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    I use a knife and fork in a restaurant, fingers when I'm at home

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    Maybe she just knows that not all guys wash their hands after using the toilet and thought you looked a bit feral :PI do use a knife and fork on pies but not pizza. xx Sarah

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    ...very funny Nick :P

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    It sorta takes away from the pleasure of all that ooey gooey cheese being twirled around your finger and eaten doesnt it? Fingers were invented before forkin' knives.

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    She definately wanted you. She just wanted to know if you like to play with toys or if you're more of a vanilla kinda guy.

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    just reminds me of seinfeld and the episode where everyone starts eating snickerswith their forks

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    I eat pizza with my hands...period. But it is nice to have fork handy just in case, you know...if someone reachs for the last piece and I want it, it's a subtle way of reminding them that I paid for the damn thing in the first place. | I am a lot of fun when sharing a meal served "banquet style".

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    I never once saw a pizza sliced in Italy with the exception of those sold by the slice. And I was there for almost a week, which means my sample size was... well... 7. . This led me to conclude that either pizza was meant to be eaten as one giant piece with cutlery, or that I met 7 lazy Italians. . You be the judge...

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    Quoting 'Jean_Girard' I never once saw a pizza sliced in Italy with the exception of those sold by the slice. And I was there for almost a week, which means my sample size was... well... 7. . This led me to conclude that either pizza was meant to be eaten as one giant piece with cutlery, or that I met 7 lazy Italians. . You be the judge... Are we judging the amount of pizza you ate, the sample size of your observation, or your possible poor judgement of pizza venues that perhaps resulted in a clouding of your judgement of etiquette? . . Pizza should not, in my opinion, be eaten with cutlery, unless everyone around you is doing so in a fancy restaurant (that probably shouldn't be serving pizza anyway!) . Flirty x

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    Every Italian I know ( which is quite a bloody few!!) eats pizza with a knife and fork.......even when I asked on girlfriends mother she said she had never seen any of her (very large) Italian family of friends eat a pizza with bare hands........

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    This silly trend was started by girls with false nails not wanting to have to clean the mozzarella out from underneath afterwards.

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    you misheard when she asked "So, would you like a fork with that?"baha!

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    I usually ask for cutlery.....I never really know where those fingers have been.HugsStalky

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    After a few weeks there in a non tourist town and all the pizza I had served was with cutlery, and all he old Italian folk I saw eating it used them. (The exception being boxed up takeaway stuff). It was the same experience the year before last. I'm not really a huge fan of Italian pizza anyway, I prefer the way ours are with plenty of topping and less focus on cheese.

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    knives and forks when eating out is just good manners..........we were taught that as children........and i still eat hot chips with a fork, lol.

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    The home of Pizza there are two little Pizza shops. Both almost across the road from each other. You need to search for them they are down the pack of some very dimly lit alleys way down the back of Naples. They both argue about being the birthplace of pizza ie where pizza was invented. Complete with dodgy looking guys with ear peices who are "looking after" well dressed men inside....... as well as Pizza Naples is a marfia town. . Now in my time there, a few days, I ate Pizza every night. Agree always served with knives and forks, NEVER cut for you and very little cheese. I spent a couple of weeks in Italy wandering about Milan , Rome ra ra ra ra. More pizza ..... all not cut ,all knives and forks. What we eat here is really not pizza it feels to me a little like what the americans did to chinese ........ So perhaps your in fact in the right place when you hit a knife and fork ...... . Brae ......... Just a little wander in and out.

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    Quoting 'curiousnewgirl78' Maybe she just knows that not all guys wash their hands after using the toilet and thought you looked a bit feral :PI do use a knife and fork on pies but not pizza. xx SarahVery Funny Sarah (-:

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    Think of it like the barman who offers you a glass with your bottle of beer, or the waiter who waves cracked pepper at your pasta. An option which saves you the embarrassment of asking later on.

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    Quoting 'looking2try3' The home of Pizza there are two little Pizza shops. Both almost across the road from each other. You need to search for them they are down the pack of some very dimly lit alleys way down the back of Naples. They both argue about being the birthplace of pizza ie where pizza was invented. Complete with dodgy looking guys with ear peices who are "looking after" well dressed men inside....... as well as Pizza Naples is a marfia town. . Now in my time there, a few days, I ate Pizza every night. Agree always served with knives and forks, NEVER cut for you and very little cheese. I spent a couple of weeks in Italy wandering about Milan , Rome ra ra ra ra. More pizza ..... all not cut ,all knives and forks. What we eat here is really not pizza it feels to me a little like what the americans did to chinese ........ So perhaps your in fact in the right place when you hit a knife and fork ...... . Brae ......... Just a little wander in and out. There's Italian Pizza and American Pizza, and they're quite different. But I reckon the Americans made their own version of pizza a legitimate cuisine in its own right. What we get in Sydney is largely a bastardisation of American pizza (sort of like what the Americans did to Chinese, maybe), unless you get tandoori chicken on it, in which case its a bastardisation of Indian food as well.Melbournians fare better on the pizza front. I don't remember ever getting cabanossi masquerading as pepperoni on a Melbourne pizza...But please, no cutlery...

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    It was all part of the master plot, MT...the cheese is too messy for a lady to eat with her hands. | Quoting 'MistressT'This silly trend was started by girls with false nails not wanting to have to clean the mozzarella out from underneath afterwards. | And damn if it doesn't slide right off on to the floor under the table when you are eating it like a man. Of course, a gentleman would always reach down to clean up his mess... | ...and take time to look up your dress. | | Lingerie, nice shoes and melted mozzarella...so what, it's haute cuisine.

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    Quoting 'ChasingMidnight' It was all part of the master plot, MT...the cheese is too messy for a lady to eat with her hands. And damn if it doesn't slide right off on to the floor under the table when you are eating it like a man. Of course, a gentleman would always reach down to clean up his mess... | ...and take time to look up your dress. | | Lingerie, nice shoes and melted mozzarella...so what, it's haute cuisine. I always thought that was so he could play with his pepperoni and peccorino!Oh well, when in rome.......(....do as the Roman ladies do and wear nice Italian shoes and hosiery.)

  • XtremGuy

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    14 years ago

    Is it wrong im sitting at desk as work eating leftover pizza with knife and fork?

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    Sorry Nick, I also use a knife and fork mostly. It's because my teeth don't meet exactly so some things are a little harder to eat. I blame it on sucking dummies for too long as a baby.... so really whats changed? lolxxMeeks

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    Thats some funny shit. All this fuss over melted cheese and cabanossi... I can't help but laugh my tits off at this.

  • RHP

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    14 years ago

    Glad you are laughing your tits off Nick because too much Pizza will make those puppies grow. xxMeeka