When it comes to foods like burgers or fried chicken, most people will tell you that there is no right or wrong way to eat them.

When it comes to pizza, however, it's a completely different story—people seem to have very strong opinions about the proper way to eat a slice.

Too many people – celebrities, public figures, and the rest of us regular folks – have all been given disapproving looks and comments while eating a slice of pizza, even though we didn't know we were doing it wrong.

Here, an etiquette expert shows us how to properly eat a pizza using cutlery in a formal dining setting, maybe even fixing our bad pizza-eating habits for good (or not).

An etiquette expert explained how to eat pizza with cutlery. Credit: TikTok/@lucychallengerofficial. ​

Lucy Challenger from London posted a video on TikTok demonstrating the fancy technique for eating a slice of pizza, and it has left thousands of her viewers in shock.

According to her many Italian friends, it is perfectly acceptable for people to eat a pizza using a knife and a fork. However, they should cut the bread first into smaller triangular pieces before eating.

"Firstly, you’d cut a triangle within the pizza," Lucy said in the now-viral clip.

"Start from the centre, and then with a zigzag motion, cut through the pizza, and repeat to create a neat size triangle," she added that you need to work from the smallest point of the triangle to the crust.

"I would cut a small bite-sized portion from the centre of the triangle, spear it with my fork, and then place it into my mouth. I repeat this process, working up the triangle to the largest section of the crust."

"Of course, you can pick up pizza whenever you want," she laughed. "In a formal setting, however, I recommend using a knife and fork."

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Lucy uploaded the clip on proper dining etiquette after she was asked for clarification by several of her followers who expressed an interest in learning how to eat pizza in a more formal situation.

Her video has been seen more than 300,000 times, and opinions among viewers regarding the pizza-eating method are mixed.

"Nope, no way is this even an option," one woman wrote in the comments, laughing. Another user followed with: "Seems too complicated. I'm too hungry to do this, put pizza in front of me and it's being eaten with my hands."

A third user quipped at her Italian friends, saying that if they are okay with this method, then they are not 'true' Italians.

What are your thoughts, folks? Do you eat pizza with your hands, or do you also do it the 'Italian' way? Let us know in the comments below!

 

[Ian Crane-Luff]

REVEALED: How to eat pizza in a formal dining setting​

When it comes to foods like burgers or fried chicken, most people will tell you that there is no right or wrong way to eat them.

When it comes to pizza, however, it's a completely different story—people seem to have very strong opinions about the proper way to eat a slice.

​

Too many people – celebrities, public figures, and the rest of us regular folks – have all been given disapproving looks and comments while eating a slice of pizza, even though we didn't know we were doing it wrong.

Here, an etiquette expert shows us how to properly eat a pizza using cutlery in a formal dining setting, maybe even fixing our bad pizza-eating habits for good (or not).

An etiquette expert explained how to eat pizza with cutlery. Credit: TikTok/@lucychallengerofficial. ​

Lucy Challenger from London posted a video on TikTok demonstrating the fancy technique for eating a slice of pizza, and it has left thousands of her viewers in shock.

According to her many Italian friends, it is perfectly acceptable for people to eat a pizza using a knife and a fork. However, they should cut the bread first into smaller triangular pieces before eating.

​

"Firstly, you’d cut a triangle within the pizza," Lucy said in the now-viral clip.

"Start from the centre, and then with a zigzag motion, cut through the pizza, and repeat to create a neat size triangle," she added that you need to work from the smallest point of the triangle to the crust.

"I would cut a small bite-sized portion from the centre of the triangle, spear it with my fork, and then place it into my mouth. I repeat this process, working up the triangle to the largest section of the crust."

"Of course, you can pick up pizza whenever you want," she laughed. "In a formal setting, however, I recommend using a knife and fork."

​

Lucy uploaded the clip on proper dining etiquette after she was asked for clarification by several of her followers who expressed an interest in learning how to eat pizza in a more formal situation.

Her video has been seen more than 300,000 times, and opinions among viewers regarding the pizza-eating method are mixed.

"Nope, no way is this even an option," one woman wrote in the comments, laughing. Another user followed with: "Seems too complicated. I'm too hungry to do this, put pizza in front of me and it's being eaten with my hands."

A third user quipped at her Italian friends, saying that if they are okay with this method, then they are not 'true' Italians.

​

What are your thoughts, folks? Do you eat pizza with your hands, or do you also do it the 'Italian' way? Let us know in the comments below!

Formal or otherwise I prefer to use a knife and fork always have done I'll occasionally use fingers if no alternatve available.

 

[Robbo128]

No doubt about the Poms......

In a formal setting, this is how you eat your slice of pizza ..........

Spear it with your fork and place it in your MOUTH...........

WOW.....

Silly bloody POM...... where else would you place it ?????

And WHY ISN"T this given HACK STATUS?

 

[Glo72]

Never have and never will I eat pizza with a knife and fork.

 

[thinkbeforedecide]

Both ways are not right or wrong depending on where you have your pizza. However, one useful image is she holds and use knife and fork properly unlike new generation of people who hold them like garden tools and some of them shove food in their mouths like pigs.

 

[thinkbeforedecide]

Never have and never will I eat pizza with a knife and fork.

Should try it, pizza from Italian restaurants is nice, don't start your first one from the chain pizza shops which may make you never ever have pizza again.

 

[PepeLePew]

Yeah no, pizza is meant to being eaten by holding it in your hands. Having said that, when my son and then granddaughters were in Scouting the group took all the sections to McDonald's for a formal dinner once a year where the children had to dress in their best attire and eat their burgers, chips etc off a plate with a knife and fork. It was amazing how many children up to the age of 17yrs that had no idea how to hold and use cutlery correctly. Felt sorry for these older children as they had school formals coming up and were then moving towards adulthood without such an essential skill. Certainly hoped they weren't planning on a career that involved business lunches and/or dinners.

 

[Vinylted]

Fingers were invented before forks, I rest my case. Just pick it up and chomp!

 

[Singomate]

REVEALED: How to eat pizza in a formal dining setting​

When it comes to foods like burgers or fried chicken, most people will tell you that there is no right or wrong way to eat them.

When it comes to pizza, however, it's a completely different story—people seem to have very strong opinions about the proper way to eat a slice.

​

Too many people – celebrities, public figures, and the rest of us regular folks – have all been given disapproving looks and comments while eating a slice of pizza, even though we didn't know we were doing it wrong.

Here, an etiquette expert shows us how to properly eat a pizza using cutlery in a formal dining setting, maybe even fixing our bad pizza-eating habits for good (or not).

An etiquette expert explained how to eat pizza with cutlery. Credit: TikTok/@lucychallengerofficial. ​

Lucy Challenger from London posted a video on TikTok demonstrating the fancy technique for eating a slice of pizza, and it has left thousands of her viewers in shock.

According to her many Italian friends, it is perfectly acceptable for people to eat a pizza using a knife and a fork. However, they should cut the bread first into smaller triangular pieces before eating.

​

"Firstly, you’d cut a triangle within the pizza," Lucy said in the now-viral clip.

"Start from the centre, and then with a zigzag motion, cut through the pizza, and repeat to create a neat size triangle," she added that you need to work from the smallest point of the triangle to the crust.

"I would cut a small bite-sized portion from the centre of the triangle, spear it with my fork, and then place it into my mouth. I repeat this process, working up the triangle to the largest section of the crust."

"Of course, you can pick up pizza whenever you want," she laughed. "In a formal setting, however, I recommend using a knife and fork."

​

Lucy uploaded the clip on proper dining etiquette after she was asked for clarification by several of her followers who expressed an interest in learning how to eat pizza in a more formal situation.

Her video has been seen more than 300,000 times, and opinions among viewers regarding the pizza-eating method are mixed.

"Nope, no way is this even an option," one woman wrote in the comments, laughing. Another user followed with: "Seems too complicated. I'm too hungry to do this, put pizza in front of me and it's being eaten with my hands."

A third user quipped at her Italian friends, saying that if they are okay with this method, then they are not 'true' Italians.

​

What are your thoughts, folks? Do you eat pizza with your hands, or do you also do it the 'Italian' way? Let us know in the comments below!

What a load of bullocks, Pizza is made to eat with fingers, just ask an Italian from the vilage .

 

[WADuck]

Thanks God for giving me two hands which come in handy for these little tasks.

 

[Ricci]

I think I would be taking a long hard look at my life choices if a "formal" dinner included Pizza!!!

 

[Thecheesequeen]

I think I would be taking a long hard look at my life choices if a "formal" dinner included Pizza!!!

Agree with you, Ricci - pizza should never be a menu item in a formal meal!

 

[thinkbeforedecide]

Yeah no, pizza is meant to being eaten by holding it in your hands. Having said that, when my son and then granddaughters were in Scouting the group took all the sections to McDonald's for a formal dinner once a year where the children had to dress in their best attire and eat their burgers, chips etc off a plate with a knife and fork. It was amazing how many children up to the age of 17yrs that had no idea how to hold and use cutlery correctly. Felt sorry for these older children as they had school formals coming up and were then moving towards adulthood without such an essential skill. Certainly hoped they weren't planning on a career that involved business lunches and/or dinners.

Parenting is bad this day, many families do not have meal together at the table so no table manners are taught. Many adults some of them with high positions,successful business men or chefs on TV cooking shows do not know how to use knives and forks or soup spoons as well.

 

[thinkbeforedecide]

I think I would be taking a long hard look at my life choices if a "formal" dinner included Pizza!!!

Don't worry formal dinners are not common now except you work in certain jobs or in certain business or having friends who invite you proper sit in dinners/lunches (not BYO at the deck). In fine dining restaurants many customers wear sneakers, and draggy clothes, owner of some restaurants dare not put table cloths on because it will intimidate some customers. It is an era of bogans, heap of money but no taste.

 

[Groovy]

Would any one serve pizza as a formal dinner???
Pizza is to be eaten with your fingers, in a casual get together with family and friends, not posh people

 

[Pommyoz]

All I could do was watch her mis-aligned black eyebrows!!

 

[debjane]

Parenting is bad this day, many families do not have meal together at the table so no table manners are taught. Many adults some of them with high positions,successful business men or chefs on TV cooking shows do not know how to use knives and forks or soup spoons as well.

I agree with you and don't get me started on the TV chefs who eat with their mouths open as well as talking at the same time, it is a real turn off to me, I don't want to see food falling or dribbling out of their mouths while they are chatting away about how wonderful the food is.