Last Thursday, So Good polled readers about hot dogs. This week, we’re sticking with the junk food thing to ask: how do you eat your pizza?
The above picture portrays our first pizza-eating style, commonly known as “New York style.” This basically means you fold your pizza in half to eat it (for the purposes of an even playing field, you can assume the shape of your pizza slice is also New York style). Although this style classically connotes New York street cred and badassery, most people who eat pizza the “regular way” are really eating it the New York way, since the floppiness of the pizza slice usually necessitates some sort of folding technique.
Eating your pizza with a knife and fork is a second option.
Popular with those trying to cut calories (because it forces you to slow down and savor), the benefits of this style also include not getting your hands greasy and the ability to formulate The Perfect Bite. Drawbacks: decreased mobility, dependence on more eating equipment, occasional scorn.
I’m not sure what the formal name for this style would be, a third option is raising your pizza to your mouth on a paper plate and edging it off gradually, taking bites as you go. It seems like this style would be useful for those insanely large pizza slices.
Some rebels eat their pizza backwards, which I think may be related to the introduction of stuffed-crust pizza.
If you adhere to a pizza-eating style other than these main four, make sure to check “other” and explain in the comments. Do you eat your pizza backwards? Scrape that gooey pizza junk out of the middle of the pizza box with your fork? Soak up the scary orange top-layer grease with a napkin? Dip it in ranch? There are literally tons of ways to eat a slice of pizza, so tell us about your quirks. I promise we won’t judge.*
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16 responses so far ↓
1 Kat // Apr 7, 2011 at 10:30 am
modified new york style – hand held without the folding. I don’t like how when you fold a pizza you get a mush of cheese and toppings so I hold it, praying for crust integrity, flat and nibble from side to side. Now if I have dipping cups of sauces i either ask for the pizza to be cut in strips or i rip the pizza slice in half to maximize sauce immersion. There you have it! Judge Away!
2 Dave // Apr 7, 2011 at 12:22 pm
There’s a bad way to eat pizza??
3 Jennifer // Apr 7, 2011 at 1:29 pm
I hate getting messy, so that’s why I eat mine with a knife and fork.
Actually I eat the toppings off the pizza with a knife and fork, then I suck the sauce off, and then I eat the crust.
4 Scott // Apr 7, 2011 at 6:50 pm
Ha ha! Until I read Jennifer’s post I thought that I was alone in the world.
The only exception being that I eat the soft part of the crust with the sauce. I have the dry crust on the side which I eat New York style, if it’s even possible to call it that at that point.
5 Geena Stepp // Apr 7, 2011 at 10:16 pm
fork and knife until it cools enough to go ny style
6 Brenda // Apr 8, 2011 at 8:54 am
Love the square-cut pieces of pizza and I take the pieces along the edges with the browned cheese.
7 Melissa // Apr 8, 2011 at 9:49 am
So, FYI, in New York they actually call folding pizza eating it “Jersey style.” Everyone knows that
8 Kath // Apr 8, 2011 at 10:22 am
I save the best for last. Therefore the crust gets eaten first.
9 matt // Apr 8, 2011 at 10:50 am
If I am buying the pizza – New York Style – but more if it’s a work, or social pizza event – gotta maximize on trips to the pizza boxes so I take 1 slice, then slap another on top of it, cheese to cheese and eat it like a pizza sammich. 2x the pizza, half the trips to the pizza boxes.
10 Sam // Apr 8, 2011 at 7:05 pm
Melissa – thanks for enlightening a naive Wisconsinite!
matt – genius.
11 sam's amazing little sis // Apr 13, 2011 at 8:57 pm
i eat it normally with out the folding..
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