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Who's right?

Bob English

18 votes

Camelia Canepa-Zipprich

2 votes

Benjamin Grimm Jun 04 2011 05:50 AM

From the Daily News' letters page: Way off Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: To this Brooklyn native, the footage of Sarah Palin and Donald Trump eating pizza in New York City tells me all I need to know about these two phonies. Nobody eats pizza with a knife and fork! Totally unqualified for national office. Fuhgeddaboudit! Bob English A matter of decor Bellerose: The correct way to eat pizza and sandwiches is with a fork and knife - that is how I was brought up by my parents, anyway. Eating in this way is not messy. At least Donald Trump and Sarah Palin were also educated correctly on eating manners. Camelia Canepa-Zipprich

metirish Jun 04 2011 06:41 AM Re: Who's right?

Bob English couldn't be more right on this.

themetfairy Jun 04 2011 06:50 AM Re: Who's right?

Bob English, completely. Jon Stewart went to town on this the other day.

MFS62 Jun 04 2011 07:50 AM Re: Who's right?

Showing the Libra that I am, I'll say "both right". If you're grabbing a slice on the go, fingers. If you're eating it in a restaurant, knife and fork. But since I don't like pizza, this is a moot discussion for me. Later

Edgy DC Jun 04 2011 07:54 AM Re: Who's right?

Bob English is correct about how to eat pizza, not about what qualifies (or disqualifies) one for national office.

Fman99 Jun 04 2011 09:03 AM Re: Who's right?

Duh.

metsguyinmichigan Jun 04 2011 12:34 PM Re: Who's right?

No way, guys. These folks are politicians. Val can back me up here. As a pol you do NOT want to get caught with a photo of you eating awkwardly, and will eat anything in the most careful way possible -- or not eat at all, even at a food photo op. Look at the way the media brutally -- and unfairly -- attacks Palin as it is. Now imagine a photo of her trying to eat a slice of fine New York pizza, cheese and pepperoni oozing down the sides or down her chin. Taste great? You bet! Horrible image for the pol? It would be on every website making fun of her. These people are incredibly image and photo conscious. You don't want this: or this:

themetfairy Jun 04 2011 12:48 PM Re: Who's right?

Then don't eat pizza. It's like not eating the hard rolls during an interview - avoid things that are awkward when looks matter. But if you're going to eat pizza, do it right. You fold it, and you eat it. And really, it isn't all that difficult.

Frayed Knot Jun 04 2011 01:09 PM Re: Who's right?

Edgy DC wrote: Bob English is correct about how to eat pizza, not about what qualifies (or disqualifies) one for national office. Yeah, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Bobby E here probably didn't like the Donald or the Sarah before seeing them eat pizza and is simply using this as a jumping off point to make a crack about their unfitness for national office.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 04 2011 01:23 PM Re: Who's right?

She also wasn't eating "New York pizza." She was eating somewhat-passable chain pizza in New York. BIG difference. (Jon Stewart semi-seriously took that apart on TDS too.) Is it proper? No. But it's fine that these two ate it with a knife and fork. It's almost definitely the least galling thing either probably did that day.

Willets Point Jun 04 2011 06:32 PM Re: Who's right?

When Palin comes to power in 2013 and installs the Small Government authority, eating pizza with one's hands will be expressly forbidden. People who refuse to comply will obviously be socialists who hate America.

cooby Jun 04 2011 07:21 PM Re: Who's right?

Ya eat pizza with your hands unless it's too freaking hot then you can cut off the first two or three or four bites off with a steak knife and eat it with a fork. Then pick it up and eat it right, point to crust.

metsmarathon Jun 04 2011 10:13 PM Re: Who's right?

fwiw, minimm eats his pizza from the middle

Ashie62 Jun 05 2011 09:27 AM Re: Who's right?

Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Bob English is correct about how to eat pizza, not about what qualifies (or disqualifies) one for national office. Yeah, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Bobby E here probably didn't like the Donald or the Sarah before seeing them eat pizza and is simply using this as a jumping off point to make a crack about their unfitness for national office. Correct Sir!

RealityChuck Jun 05 2011 10:32 AM Re: Who's right?

The entire incident reminds me of another person getting a New York slice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaKuT3dIwfc Really, there's one rule about pizza places: the smaller the chain the better the pizza (as the video shows).

batmagadanleadoff Jun 05 2011 01:15 PM Re: Who's right?

John Travolta as Tony Manero, stacked his slices: [youtube:2zddvyjd]_QSeSnQAco4[/youtube:2zddvyjd] (scroll to the 1:39-1:56 portion of the video. Lenny's Pizza is still there, some 35 years later.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 05 2011 11:53 PM Re: Who's right?

Tony Manero is no role model for any other sort of behavior; why should he be so for something as essential as proper pizza eating. Stacking ruins the crust of your top slice; anyone who actually likes pizza, as opposed to scarfing it, would never do this to a slice they liked. And sorry, Cooby, but if your pizza's too hot to eat, you don't eat your pizza. There's a reason that nobody you'd want to buy a pizza from hands you a knife and fork with your pizza slice, and it isn't cost.

themetfairy Jun 06 2011 05:40 AM Re: Who's right?

RealityChuck wrote: The entire incident reminds me of another person getting a New York slice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaKuT3dIwfc I love that clip :)

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 06 2011 08:11 AM Re: Who's right?

John Travolta as Tony Manero, stacked his slices: [youtube]_QSeSnQAco4[/youtube] (scroll to the 1:39-1:56 portion of the video. Lenny's Pizza is still there, some 35 years later. Apropos of nothing but I saw an interview with Travolta one time where he remarked that the scene at :35ish when he lifts up his foot at the shoestore window was done by a stand-in and not Travolta who was adamant that Tony Manero would never walk like that. I thought that was a great testament to how much JT inhabited TM.