Use your hands! New Yorkers respond to Sarah Palin/Donald Trump pizza-eating faux pas

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Use your hands! New Yorkers respond to Sarah Palin, Donald Trump pizza-eating faux pas


Potential GOP presidential candidate Sarah Palin shares a pie with Donald Trump on Tuesday at Famiglia Pizzera in Times Square.


Sarah Palin, New Yorkers have a message for you: You're doing it wrong!

The Tea Party favorite and fellow GOP media-monger, Donald Trump, committed the cardinal sin of pizza-eating on Tuesday when they shared a pie at Famiglia Pizzeria in Times Square during a stop on her "One Nation" bus tour.

They used forks.

"She doesn't know any better," Darrell Carter, 50, an exterminator from the Bronx says. "Only Sarah Palin would eat pizza with a fork in New York."

Adama Tourray, 25, a clothing store employee from the Bronx, says he has never seen anyone eat pizza with a fork in the Big Apple before.

"It's not New York style," he says. "You got to grab it."

Others have a bigger problem with the potential presidential candidate's political views than her eating style.

"I can't even get past the picture of her with Donald Trump to comment on the food," Dolly Williams, a 38-year-old from midtown says.

But if she could instruct Palin on how to eat a slice of pizza, she would tell her to use her hands.

"Fold it length-wise and eat it from the narrow end up," Williams says.


Palin and Trump were joined by the "Celebrity Apprentice" host's wife, Melania. (Andrew Savulich/News)


Salvatore Olivella, 33, owner of Merilu Pizza Al Metro at Ninth Ave. and 52nd St., says that Trump and Palin were eating pizza the right way - if they were in Italy.

"I'm from Italy. In Italy, everybody eats with forks and knives," Olivella says. "But being that [Trump] is in New York, he looks so cheesy."

Dominic Accette, 57, co-owner of Sacco Pizza at 54th and Ninth, agrees.

"If [Palin] wants to impress people, she should be doing it the New York way," Accette says. "Just grab the bottom and double it up."

At least one New Yorker wasn't offended by Palin's pizza faux pas.

"I always eat pizza with a fork," Ivelisse Henriquez, a 19-year-old employee at Abitino's Pizza and Café at Eighth Ave. and 56th St. said. "It's fancy. That way the sauce won't get into your nails."

[Brookie]

Pizza with a fork? Seriously? Isn't that a plastic fork and knife she's sporting? Klassay.

[yoyoma]

Jon Stewart did a whole segment on this! Hilarious.

[AliceInWonderland]

[Brah]

I love the person that says eating pizza with a fork is fancy. It's about as fancy as eating hot wings with corn skewers.

[BBDSP]

I bet Sarah saw The Donald eating it with a fork and decided to do it that way, too.

Kind of like that Seinfeld episode with the Snickers bar.

[Chalet]

I use a knife and fork to cut the point off the pizza. You know how many times I've burned my tongue if I've picked it up? So now I cut and let it cool off. Then I fold it and eat it. NY pizza is the only fast food I eat.

[AliceInWonderland]

i hate sarah palin i really do

[MrsDark]

I could give a shit how she eats her fucking pizza. She's still an asshole.

[A*O]

At least she's holding her knife/fork correctly in the top pic. Then she ruins it by holding them like a tard in pic #2.

[Daphne]

Hey I eat pizza with a fork! It's the only way I can eat pizza without it getting stuck in my braces.

[Ravenna]

i hate sarah palin i really do

LOL. There are more legitimate reasons to hate Palin, such as her stupid hair. This? Naw, pizza can be messy and I prefer to err on the side of fussy manners too. I usually use a knife and fork when eating pizza in public.

Folding pizza seems a little odd to me.

[Honey]

Who fucking cares?

[Geest]

In a restaurant I use a fork. At home I don't.
But that Trump guy is seriously disgusting, I wouldn't be able to eat ANYTHING sitting next to him, with or without a fork.

[Brookie]

Had pizza last night. Nary a utensil in sight.