Picking up pizza with your hands in Pizza Express

[FridgeMagnet]

pretentious prick

cutlery really isn't that complicated you know - give it a shot some time

 

[Herbsman.]

neither is eating pizza with ones hands

 

[moose]

I used my knife and fork to cut the pizza into tiny 16ths tonight, then ate them with my fingers. No one died.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Is this in any way acceptable? It's bloody hard to get though a whole pizza of theirs with a knife and fork, so I tend to grudgingly eat the middle with a knife and fork, but pick up the crusts to eat them. Does this make me a repulsive slattern?

Where does the line lie with eating pizza out and whether you use cutlery or your hands? Does anyone even pay attention to whether other people eat with their hands in Pizza Express?

I don't think I've ever seen anyone eat pizza with a knife and fork.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

whether it was true that people ate hamburgers with a knife and fork in Wimpy. I had to admit it was.

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[Johnny Canuck3]

Otherwise you just end up with your fingers covered in grease.

 

[Herbsman.]

I used my knife and fork to cut the pizza into tiny 16ths tonight, then ate them with my fingers. No one died.

Someone always dies.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Although there's a tendency for burger places now to charge around £10 a go and then justify it by giving you an absurdly tall burger, stacked with all manner of stuff like a Scooby Doo sandwich, which only stays together because a stake has been driven through its heart. And eating those buggers with hands alone is tricky.

A burger is a type of sandwich. Do you eat a ham sandwich with a knife and fork?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I dunno. The pizza comes unsliced,

The term 'people unclear on the concept' springs to mind...

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Have your restaurants not heard of these?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

One of the things I love about being on this board with a lot of UK people: no matter how long I've been here, you retain the ability to totally stun me with something that comes straight out of left field.

 

[cliche guevara]

Yes, Britain is leagues ahead of Canada...

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Yes, Britain is leagues ahead of Canada...

The country where the term 'Victorian' originated.

 

[Bassism]

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[Bassism]

even my parents eat pizza with their hands

next: how to eat a banana with knife & fork

na na ...next how to open your eyes

 

[Hocus Eye.]

This is nonsense. Everybody knows that you should eat pizza with a soup spoon tilting the plate away from you.

Spaghetti however should be eaten with a knife and fork. Obviously a cake fork and a fruit knife. Don't they teach these basics at school anymore?

 

[cesare]

Pizza Express pizzas have a really thin crust so they're next to impossible to easily eat with your hands. They are the best pizzas mmmmmmm a forkful of mostly topping with some of that salad with that tasty dressing

 

[ymu]

Yeah, Pixxa Express is closer to proper Italian pizza, not the deep-crust abomination invented by North America.

It's standard to eat them with a knife and fork in Italy too.

 

[cesare]

Yeah, Pixxa Express is closer to proper Italian pizza, not the deep-crust abomination invented by North America.

It's standard to eat them with a knife and fork in Italy too.

I've had some brilliant pizzas in Italy where the pizza crust was cracker thin, really crisp. And not too heavy on the cheese either.

Calzone are good for hand held eatings.

 

[ymu]

Yeah - calzones are designed for it. Same idea as the Cornish pastie.

 

[mentalchik]

I have never eaten pizza or a burger with a knife and fork................

 

[Herbsman.]

Really now? dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot

 

[Orang Utan]

Have your restaurants not heard of these?

when an american friend arrived in this country he was annoyed cos he couldn't find anywhere that sold those

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I don't think I have ever used my hands to touch food in pizza express. The very idea!

 

[sheothebudworths]

when an american friend arrived in this country he was annoyed cos he couldn't find anywhere that sold those

They're easy to find!!!

I met an Israeli girl in India once who based a whole lenghty anti-India rant on the fact that her and her friend had been unable to find a western style toilet brush for sale anywhere....

 

[Orang Utan]

They're easy to find!!!

not in supermarkets - you have to go somewhere like robert dyas

 

[sheothebudworths]

Rubbish! You can get 'em in Tesco/Asda etc!

 

[sheothebudworths]

Maybe he was looking in a Tesco Metro or something?

 

[Herbsman.]

pizza... toilet brushes.... i dont see the connection

 

[Orang Utan]

well he's foreign - pretty sure he looked in tesco as that was his local when he moved here