Social acceptability of putting condiments on pizza

[lisalover1]

Pizzas are like tacos -- as long as the topping fits in the curve, you can eat i-- WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING
Forks?....

to be honest when i was visiting Germany,i found that pizza is almost always eaten with a fork and knife...one day my folks over there got a pizza (with salami on it which was really awesome). I at first used my hands (this was when i was quite young and only knew my way to live) only to be told that it was in some way or another "disrespectful"...so being one not to disrespect people, i picked up a fork and knife..and ate...very strange to do so though.

I hear that in most European countries, hamburgers are eaten with a knife and fork. Is that true?

[pepharytheworm]

We eat pizzas with knife and fork around here too. That's because we're not cave men.

Do you eat tocos with fork and knife too? How about Gyros, hotdogs, and hamburgers. As far as I have heard pizza history is similiar to all these types of food.

Starting for the poor and working class, it was a street vendor food, which is meant to be eaten with hands since they were bought on the street.

[jfrost]

I don't eat tacos or gyros (actually, I didn't even know what gyros were). As for hamburgers and hot dogs, we eat them with our hands. But if Jon Stewart goes berserk because people eat pizzas using cutlery, we are allowed to call you cave men.

As an aside, sometimes I really wish we'd use fork and knife to eat hot dogs. Type "Brazilian hot dog" on Google and you'll know what I mean.

[KillerJuan77]

I always put tabasco on it and no one complains about it so it's OK here in Mexico? I'm not sure.

As an aside, sometimes I really wish we'd use fork and knife to eat hot dogs. Type "Brazilian hot dog" on Google and you'll know what I mean.

There is no way you can eat that with just your hands, also, you would need Kakihara's mouth (From Ichi The Killer) to bite it .

[dedalusdedalus]

Type "Brazilian hot dog" on Google and you'll know what I mean.

It's...it's beautiful. It makes the Chicago dog look anemic.

[Luke]

Type "Brazilian hot dog" on Google and you'll know what I mean.

It's...it's beautiful. It makes the Chicago dog look anemic.

That is what some refer to as "Midwestern Blasphemy".

[Hatta]

Is that ketchup? On a hot dog?

[pakopako]

As an aside, sometimes I really wish we'd use fork and knife to eat hot dogs. Type "Brazilian hot dog" on Google and you'll know what I mean.

Ah yes, the various South American hot dogs. (I grew up with Colombian style myself.)

Much like eating bratwurst or sausage, you really need to set the things down. (Unless, for whatever reason, you're nuking them in a sandwich.)

[the King]

But yeah, that Detroit pizza looks like a gimped Chicago style pie. I know other pizzas from other regions can be passable to good, but I really doubt anyone who has had authentic NYC or Chicago pizza would argue that there's better pizza anywhere else.

Yeah, it's nothing like a Chicago style pie, but if someone's pizza experience was limited enough to make that assumption I could see why they would only think NYC or Chicago makes good pizza. I've had both and they are both really good, but you are talking about two styles at the opposite ends of the pizza spectrum and there is so much great pizza in-between.

On a side note, did individual pizza's on the grill tonight. The kids love putting together their own pies. They always tend to eat better when I let them help make their dinner actually. Here is my wife's with onions and shrooms I sauted first on the the cast iron skillet I use on my grill. It's just store bought frozen dough, so Luke might not approve but the cheese is homemade using extra breast milk.

[o.pwuaioc]

It's just store bought frozen dough, so Luke might not approve but the cheese is homemade using extra breast milk.

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