Friday, January 10, 2014
ForkGate
Soon New York Mayor Bill de Blasio will issue a mandate requiring all New Yorkers to eat pizza with a knife and fork.
Hizzoner visited a Staten Island pizza place, and he went to Goodfella's (good choice) but the problem is, he ate his pizza with utensils.
Nothing could be less New York, and this is the guy running the city.
The Mayor tried to say this practice is common in his ancestral homeland and folding the pizza and eating with your hands is a strictly American thing.
He's a liar, a moron and a dictator. And now he has offended my ancestral homeland.
Good fellas is very VERY good stuff. I will say that, depending on the type of pizza you get, it can be super thin an saucy. I think most of the time, people just pick it up and eat it and get sloppy for the first bite or two. Perhaps he was trying to be neat since he was in a suit etc. But this is blown out of proportion, because it's not a normal 'new york' pizza. That shit can get messy. No hateration here.
ReplyDeleteNo Seinfeld reference about eating candy bars with a fork? I am suprised
ReplyDeleteI'm both Sicilian and from SI and I eat pizza with a knife and fork all the time. The key is whether it's messy and manageable as Ton mentioned. And DiBlasio is getting rid of the Central Park horse carriages which I've long wanted, so I'll cut him some extra slack here.
ReplyDeleteWas the store out of napkins?
ReplyDeleteI never like to get messy when I eat but I also don't like to be photographed looking like a pompous douche.
The "it's too messy" defense would have worked better if he used it. If he had said "I never eat pizza with a fork and knife but it was a very messy slice and I'm wearing a suit."
Instead he used a cock and bull story about his ancestral homeland. Honesty matters.
Damino, I am in agreement on the hansom cabs, but I oppose is use of a king's decree.
I don't want any politician make a decision without the public behind it, even a decision I happen to agree with.
I hear you Paul. I don't eat pizza with a fork and knife because I'm Sicilian; I do it because I'm a neat freak and very often eat meals at work where I especially don't want to mess up my clothing.
ReplyDeleteI also agree about king's decrees, but in the case of the hansom cabs I think there is massive public support for ending them, so I'll look the other way on procedure as long as it gets done.
A referendum or a vote in the city council even would be preferable to a new mayor coming in and saying "it's over."
ReplyDeleteI don't like smoking in public places but I do like large sodas. I don't like hansom cabs but I do like internet poker. In principle I don't want the government telling me what to do.
Jay, I didn't want to make light of such a serious issue by dragging Mr. Pitt into it.