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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    4 hours 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.

  • VibeSurgeon@piefed.social
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    13 hours 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

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    16 hours 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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      14 hours 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.

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    15 hours 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.

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      13 hours 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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    19 hours ago

    Rich people don’t like it when you believe in socialism or progressive tax rates.

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      13 hours ago

      For real. Whenever I eat (Italian) pizza normally around a bunch of freaks using knife and fork I just silently rejoice about my superior cultural capital.

      And if OP is American, chances are those people don’t even know how to use a knife and fork properly.

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    23 hours ago

    You shouldn’t care about their opinions of your personal habits.

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

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    17 hours ago

    Zerosophisto. . . Sophistication robs the world of culture. There is no “supposed to be like” in an adult world where you are not harming others with the choices you make. There is (and should not be) just one way to “be”. Some rich people feel like they have it all figured out because they have money. Money does not equal happiness. Do what makes you happy and move through the world with grace.