# Idiots who Think Eating Pizza with a Fork and Knife is Gay **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 24, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250 "2013-01-24T20:03:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250/161 "2013-01-26T08:57:40Z")
Hmm…I live with this guy, and this thread has got me thinking. He eats pizza _and_ hamburgers _and even french fries_ (which he calls by the suspect word ‘chips’) with a knife and fork.\* He’s also a vegetarian. He carries a manbag and likes to go clothes shopping when I do. He also insists on packing a huge bag of carrots to take with him when he works away during the week. Don’t even get me started on the fruity stripey and patterned socks he wears. :eek: 😛 \*As do I…and come to think of it most of the people I’ve met here in the UK, including the guys. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250/162 "2013-01-26T13:02:26Z")
What else would be expected from the nation that created fruitcake? ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250/163 "2013-01-26T14:26:09Z")
I could call you a genius, doesn’t make it so! Don’t worry about being called gay, by the time you graduate 8th grade you’ll be mature enough to understand that they are just words, and letting it upset you speaks to your immaturity more than any thing else! Oh, and consider a bog for your junior high dramas, you keep on posting them here and you’re likely to get these same results repeated. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250/164 "2013-01-26T14:39:32Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > I am kind of “thick skilled”. If ‘thick skilled’ is gay code for ‘spelling challenged’ then yes, yes you are. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250/165 "2013-01-26T14:42:32Z")
> [@White SIFL](#): > > If ‘thick skilled’ is gay code for ‘spelling challenged’ then yes, yes you are. I meant to say “thick skinned”. Anyways, I’m a freshman in high school - 15 years old. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250/166 "2013-01-26T14:45:49Z")
I was 13 when I was a high school freshman. Are you some sort of slacker? ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250/167 "2013-01-26T14:48:46Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > I was 13 when I was a high school freshman. Are you some sort of slacker? No, that’s the standard age for a high school freshman. Usually, high school freshmen are 14 years old turning 15. I turned 15 just several weeks ago around New Years. This means that when I’m a senior, I’ll be 18 years old. Although there are some young freshmen who start out as 13 years old, and then turn 14 in fall. But I’m not one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250/168 "2013-01-26T15:14:47Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > When someone calls you gay say, “what’s wrong with being gay? What do you have against gay people? Do you hate blacks and Jews too?” or just tell them to bend over so you can show them how gay you are. Laugh it off, shrug it off, play it off with a joke of your own. Because that TOTALLY works with 15-year-olds. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250/169 "2013-01-26T15:45:15Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Oh, and consider a bog for your junior high dramas I think you meant “blog”, but a bog would be a fine place for them too. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250/170 "2013-01-26T16:57:40Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > I think you meant “blog”, but a bog would be a fine place for them too. If it’s a peat bog, they can later by recycled as fire lighters. ---
**Author:** ![applebetty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@applebetty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/applebetty)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250/171 "2013-01-26T17:02:48Z")
> [@Ms\_Boods](#): > > Hmm..I live with this guy, and this thread has got me thinking. He eats pizza _and_ hamburgers _and even french fries_ (which he calls by the suspect word ‘chips’) with a knife and fork.\* He’s also a vegetarian. Does using a knife and fork turn a hamburger vegetarian? :dubious: Or is the hamburger gay? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250/172 "2013-01-26T17:09:44Z")
How are you supposed to eat a hamburger if it’s not with a knife and fork, with a spoon? Grabbing it with your hand seems kind of sloppy when it’s bun-less. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250/173 "2013-01-26T17:28:10Z")
Couldn’t get past the first page. Some kid running through the board yelling “look at me!” has gotten tiresome. If it is a kid. First person I’m thinking about putting on ignore. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250/174 "2013-01-26T19:17:14Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > How are you supposed to eat a hamburger if it’s not with a knife and fork, with a spoon? Grabbing it with your hand seems kind of sloppy when it’s bun-less. In Spain, there is no mental concept of a hamburger bun, or “pan de hamburguesa.” When explorers first brought sandwiches to Spain, the native Spaniards _couldn’t see them_. When presented with sandwich filling alone, however, the Spaniards opened their arms to the newcomers. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250/175 "2013-01-26T19:38:49Z")
> [@applebetty](#): > > Does using a knife and fork turn a hamburger vegetarian? :dubious: > > Or is the hamburger gay? Heh – no, apologies for that; Quornburgers. (He also eats stuff he calls ‘cheatin’ chicken’ and ‘sham’ which is also made from Quorn.) [QUOTE=ElvisL1ves] What else would be expected from the nation that created fruitcake? [/quote] I’m more concerned that he might actually be French. ---
**Author:** ![applebetty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@applebetty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/applebetty)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250/176 "2013-01-27T02:19:46Z")
I had to look that up, thanks for the lead. I recently had to give up cow products and that looks like a good replacement. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250/177 "2013-01-27T03:51:10Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > How are you supposed to eat a hamburger if it’s not with a knife and fork, with a spoon? Grabbing it with your hand seems kind of sloppy when it’s bun-less. In America, the term “hamburger” is a contraction of “Hamburg steak sandwich,” so unless you specify, it is assumed that a hamburger has a bun. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250/178 "2013-01-27T04:33:05Z")
I eat pizza with a spoon and a melon baller. I think I might be bi. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250/179 "2013-01-27T04:36:37Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > In America, the term “hamburger” is a contraction of “Hamburg steak sandwich,” so unless you specify, it is assumed that a hamburger has a bun. The uncontracted form is seldom used. I daresay never, except possibly by Paul F. Tompkins in character as Andrew Lloyd Webber… ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250/180 "2013-01-27T05:21:38Z")
Well, life handed me a real life opportunity to test this out. I currently have 7 15 year old freshmen in my basement (they are there voluntarily… one is my son). They wanted pizza and I asked what kind and they ordered two cheese and one supreme. Not a veggie pizza in the bunch. After I picked it up and called them up to “come and get it” I actually asked if anyone wanted a knife and fork… they looked at me like I had a third eye. Nobody took me up on it. The sample consisted of four boys and three girls… the boys specifically invited these girls over so I’m pretty sure at least 6 of the 7 are not gay. So, straight guys and girls don’t eat veggie pizza nor use a knife and fork. Even one who is questionable doesn’t do it either. So, based on this, eating veggie pizza with a knife and fork is not typical straight 15 year old behavior. Science doesn’t lie… sorry, but you better let your Dad know you are gay. Oh, and as I’m typing this, my son and one of the girls just came up and got a can of whipped cream from the fridge. Definitely not gay. (and yes, I’ll be heading down to check on things in a minute or two). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-think-eating-pizza-with-a-fork-and-knife-is-gay/648250.md?page=10)