I love ranch dressing with chicken wings. But I do eat pizza with my hands. Using a knife and fork is just being too dainty.
I’ve always wished there was a female equivalent of guy, which to me sounds like the normal casual word. Gal sounds like a word from the 40s.
My parents met for the very first time at the original Shakey’s. Without that place, I don’t get born. Either of your parents still around, Nitro? If they are, thank them for me.
How’s that for wistful?
Moving this to Cafe Society.
Knife and fork. I despise getting anything even a little bit greasy on my hands if I can possibly avoid it, and almost every pizza winds up with at least some oil/grease on the bottom. Indeed, I avoid eating almost any kind of food with my hands, with only a very few exceptions.
This really depends where I’m eating the pizza. When I eat out, it’s normally at Italian pizzerias (either in London or Italy), where pizzas are not served ready-sliced and proper knives and forks are present and correct.
At home, in front of the telly, it’s hands all the way…
Depends.
If I’m served it on a plate in a restaurant, it gets the knife and fork treatment. If it’s delivered to my home in a box, it’s hands.
99.9% of the time, with my hands. If I’m eating Chicago Deep Dish, there’s really no way to eat that gracefully with hands, unless you want to burn the snot out of yourself, so I use fork and knife for that…or in Europe (since they don’t slice it).
I have never in my life seen anyone eat pizza using a knife and fork. I’m gone for one week and everything goes to hell.
How about a Snickers bar? Have you ever seen anyone eat a Snickers bar with a knife and fork?
I hate messy hands as well but pizza is definitely a hands-on food. Don’t think I’ve ever eaten one messy enough to consider otherwise.
And I like pizza cut into squares!
My (non-Sicilian) homemade pizzas are not greasy at all. I bake them naked on a stone dusted with cornmeal, and I also coat the bottom of the crust with durum flour, which is an even better release agent. No grease enters into it. Since I’m vegetarian, they stay free of animal grease too. Therefore I can even include a modest amount of olive oil in the topping without making it greasy. My stone pizzas are neat, sweet, and ready to eat.
Non-greasy eggplant parmesan, however, is a goal I’m still striving for. I’m not at all sure that’s possible, though.
The current score is Men: 8 to 1 in favor of hands, and Women: 10 to 1. Hands down, you might say.
In every single pizzeria I have seen it in here in NJ it is exactly as I described it. Yesterday when I was responding I had just gotten back from lunch and I was staring at the Grandma pizza and debating if I should have a slice with my salad (went with a slice with pepperoni instead). Square pizza much thinner than Sicilian, light on the tomato sauce, fresh mozerella melted on top, a fresh basil leaf or two. The pizza Johanna’s Nonna made sounds really good but it is not like how they make Grandma pizza anywhere that I have seen it in NJ.
Most often I use my hands, unless you just can’t. Pizza is more of a fast food thing.
Right! You’re on the list!
I’ll do either, but I picked ‘knife and fork’ because I think I do that more often, when they’re available. 
And that’s cool. Pizza terms obviously speciated on either side of the river. OTOH, it does seem that what I get in Queens is more like that served by one actual Sicillian grandmother.
Mmmm, might be time to run out for a slice.
Some of those pizzas at CPK that are heaped with salad greens or tostada fixings or whatever demand to be eaten with a knife and fork if I want to get more of it in my mouth than in my lap. But I still feel funny eating a pizza that way. Normal pizza is always finger food.
Same here.