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I swear I looked like a bum when I grabbed a slice of pizza with my hands because everyone was using a knife and fork, one of my worst moments

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[-] Steve@communick.news 73 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You shouldn't care about their opinions of your personal habits.

They look at you funny:
"Fuck off werido. This is how normal people eat pizza."

[-] ada 61 points 1 week ago

What should I NOT do in front of rich people?

Diminish yourself or your self worth

[-] hesh@quokk.au 48 points 1 week ago

Don't envy them. They can't even hold pizza

[-] cabbage@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

For real. Whenever I eat (Italian) pizza normally around a bunch of freaks using knife and fork I just silently rejoice about my superior cultural capital.

And if OP is American, chances are those people don't even know how to use a knife and fork properly.

[-] starlinguk@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

Rich people don't care how you eat your pizza. Stuck up people do, but you get plenty of those without money.

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 week ago

Rich people don't like it when you believe in socialism or progressive tax rates.

[-] je_skirata@lemmy.today 19 points 1 week ago

Knife and fork for pizza?! Did they not wash their hands or something? That sounds like something only the insane would do

[-] Steve@communick.news 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I do it when possible, so I don't get my hands dirty.
But I know I'm the werid one.
And I'm comfortable with that.

[-] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

You're not alone, I don't like getting my hands dirty

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

IMO, it depends on how bendy the pizza is, how big the crust (i.e. handle) is and wether it's a sit-down restaurant or not. I've had some pizzas that tasted great, but would have been really messy to eat with my hands.

[-] sparkles@piefed.zip 6 points 1 week ago

You gotta fold the big floppy ones in half, silly.

Really that’s how we eat it .

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[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

pizza is usually a finger food, unless it's something like a chicago deep dish.

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[-] T156@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

The trick is to not care, and to confidently do it like it was the most natural thing in the world, and it clearly was.

The world of the wealthy runs on appearances. The worst thing you can do there is to be ashamed. Arguably better is to look at them with confident disdain for using a knife and fork to eat a pizza, in much the same way that they might for someone using a soup spoon for dessert.


For the pizza, it's arguably more regional than wealth related. In a few countries, like parts of Italy and Sweden, it's more common to eat pizza using cutlery rather than using your hands.

Whereas for other places, like other parts of Italy, it may be more common to use your hands for it instead. It very much depends on where, and the local culture more than anything else. But using your hands is as valid as using a knife and fork.

[-] ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I don’t know if all do, but the few French people I had pizza with, all of them used knife and fork.

In a nice Italian restaurant in Berlin, all the people I saw used knife and fork, I did too not to fit but those pizzas had a crazy thin base and a lot of sauce and things on top, trying to pick a slice with the hand would end very badly, so maybe in other places the people would have used the hand.

[-] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Don't worry about it. Anyone that eats pizza with a knife and fork is a fucking idiot.

[-] starlinguk@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Some people hate getting dirty hands, they just don't like the feeling of it. Just eat pizza as you please.

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Why worry about the opinions of people who eat pizza with a fork‽

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

IDK, be poor probably. And I bet they hate it if you talk about seizing the means of production and eating the rich.

[-] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago

When you're sufficiently rich, you don't even have to care about what the regular rich people think.

You can probably adopt the habit even before you manage to reach that level of wealth

Yeah should just grab it with your mouth, don’t use your hands

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

you should probably not hock-up a nice big loogie, then swish it around your mouth for a minute like you're at a fine wine tasting event, then swallow it in one big, noisy GULP.

[-] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Act like they’re your superiors. They bleed and die just like poor people

[-] Klear@quokk.au 9 points 1 week ago

Have your gazpacho warmed.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Peel your calzones

[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago
[-] Jmsnwbrd@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Zerosophisto. . . Sophistication robs the world of culture. There is no "supposed to be like" in an adult world where you are not harming others with the choices you make. There is (and should not be) just one way to "be". Some rich people feel like they have it all figured out because they have money. Money does not equal happiness. Do what makes you happy and move through the world with grace.

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago

One of the ballinest moves I ever saw was the hired band at the high-end corporate executive event where I was the cocktail waitress playing "Sixteen Tons". And not just playing it, singing it.

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't think rich people would bat an eye ~~bat and I~~ at that unless it was targeted at them specifically.

The internationale though, I think, might get you removed from the stage.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

"bat an eye" ( blinking rapidly in confusion and stress, flinching)

The Internationale (written in French, so we leave the e on even though we translate the rest)

Perhaps you were using voice-to-type?

I agree with both your points

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you, I did not know how to spell the Internationale. Any my keyboard often breaks things, whether I voice to type or physically type. 

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[-] ptolemai@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Don't be embarrassed or insecure. They probably envy you, getting to dig in with your hands.

[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

People who still live in caves, they eat with their bare hands.

(and Us americans, of course)

[-] Zorsith 6 points 1 week ago

The decorative nooses the men have around their necks are not for pulling. Usually.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Play your cards right and one of them might pay you to pull on it.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 1 week ago

Fried chicken, too. Don't gulp, slurp. Chew with your mouth closed. Napkin in lap, elbows off table. Walk slowly and not hunched over. Look at military posture of head and shoulders. Two sentences, then a question. Cutlery use starts outside and works inward. Don't saw to cut food, don't cut more than two bites at a time, no more than a couple of cm (half inch) in size. Don't cross your legs unless it's at the ankle. No more than two glasses of wine, beer, one mixed drink.

[-] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Shit like this makes me happy I'm not part of some pretentious rich family

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 1 week ago

It comes in handy for certain work situations.

[-] remon@ani.social 5 points 1 week ago

Giving a fuck about how you eat pizza.

[-] howsetheraven@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Next time, laugh in their fucking face while you scarf down a whole pie. They aren't better than you, in any way. 99.99% chance they're just luckier (which could always change).

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

I swear I looked like a bum when I grabbed a slice of pizza with my hands

I used to eat pizza with chopsticks lmfao.

I remember eating pizza with the spork thingy in school and I feel like a fucking weirdo lmfao.


As for the question: Make sure you DO NOT FORGET TO

🎵 SHIT ON THE FLOOR 🎵

RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM

THEN THROW THE SHIT AT THEIR FACE

And make sure it get it on livestream, it'll become the most famous video of the 21st century

[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

In front of rich people you shouldn't blow your nose without a tissue and then simply throw the snot down on the ground.

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[-] veggay@kbin.earth 4 points 1 week ago

not care about their opinion

[-] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

I've spent time with two billionaires and neither of them would care about stuff like that.

[-] dumbass@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

you been hanging out with Epstein's friends?

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