Is there pizza slice etiquette?

Maybe you should do an experiment. Take the slice with the most toppings on purpose and see if anyone starts being mean to you. Next week, take the slice with the fewer toppings and see what happens.

haha I see and feel your pain… I usually try to grab the slice along with the one right beside it to alay any suspicions :0)

I take the slice that looks the tastiest, whether it be adjacent or on the opposite side of the pizza. Thinking about it now, it’s probably not correct “pizza ettiquitte.”
Also, a lot of the time my friends and I don’t want the same kind of pizza. When this happens we usually get a 1/2 and 1/2 and then there is no ettiquitte! =]

Face it, you are trying to take the one with most toppings, but so what? Where is it written that he who grabs the first slice is the only person allowed to get a good one?

I always take the adjacent slice. It is just easier to deal with one “crust bond” instead of two.

Yes, I would say that for the most part I pick up the slice next to it, sometimes I take which ever one I want though and then I might feel bad about it depending on who I’m dining with.

This wouldn’t be such a problem if the pizza goodness was more evenly distributed. Sometimes the next piece just doesn’t look as good as one across from it.

I go for a “middle” slice if the end slices aren’t the size I want. If you’re going for a similarly sized middle slice, that’s suspicious.

Oh, boo hoo. I thought I was going to hear about strings of mozarella hanging from lips, oil dripping onto clothes and table linen, and brocolli vs. pepperoni. (Or the people who use a knife and fork -probably the ones who iron their socks – vs. the “grab and cram” technique. Or crust eaters vs. crust leavers.)

gailcalled: Haha! “Or the people who use a knife and fork -probably the ones who iron their socks.” Thanks for the laugh. =D

kevbo aren’t all slices the middle slice

Not after the first slice has been taken (as stated above), no.

how do we feel about folding versus eating it flat?

ezraglenn: I fold the crust so it’s easier to hold, but try to keep the front corner flat. Does that make any sense?

as a new yorker, that makes sense to me (we are a city of folders)

Ok, let’s open this thread up. Feel free to comment ony any and all pizza etiquette.
@ezra: Before moving to the city, I had never seen, or myself folded.

Fork?

@breedmitch: I bought a $25 fancypants pizza for dinner one night and had one piece; boyfriend and roommate finished the rest of it. Lousy pizza etiquette.

Marina: Are you asking if people use a fork? If so, then no. For me, pizza is a finger food.

- I blot really greasy pizza with a napkin.
– Sometimes I pick the toppings off of the pieces I reject. (Bad, bad ettiquitte, I know..)
– I hardly ever leave the crust. Crusts are best when dipped in ranch dressing. It’s like a breadstick!

OK.. How do people break the “crust bond” when eating with others? I normally hold on to the other slice and pull if I am alone. But that is nasty if you are sharing with others.

It’s lousy when someone pitches the crust remanent into the box where there’s still uneaten pizza.

@Allie Yes, I wondered if people thought it was OK to eat pizza with a fork or dorky. I am no fork myself even if I burn the heck out of myself on the hot cheese.

Some of my other pizza quirks:
Hate it when a pepperoni is divided between two slices. (I want it the whole thing!)

Love cold pizza for breakfast.

Hate pineapple on pizza.

Marina: WHAT!?! You hate pineapple on pizza? That’s like one of my favorite toppings. Sometimes I even ask for extra. To each their own..

yeah, pineapple and NM green chile with garlic salt (powder? I forget) is hard to beat.

pineapple pizza is the greatest.

@mcbealer
I agree. The crust in the box pisses me off too. I might be OK with my girlfriend if she cheated on me. Tossing the crust back in will lead to having her stuff scattered on the lawn in an instant.

@Marina
I like pineapple if the pizza just came out of the oven. I hate it after it has been in the refrigerator for a while.

@kevbo I’ll take the green chile, just not the fruit! This inspires me to pose a different pizza question.

This may sound sick (I’ve actually had order-takers balk!) but it’s my favorite:

pineapples, mushrooms and black olives

@marina, yeah, I feel sorry for the rest of the non-green-chile-on-pizza eating U.S.

@kevbo There is not much in the food pantheon that cannot be improved by the judicious addition of green chiles.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…

Mehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhnnnnn

mcbealer: I’ve had that before. It is very good. I really want pizza now.

@ Allie ~ too funny. Well, someone should take note of all of these preferences and put them on a menu if we ever have a Flutherite Meet.

Genius!

@jp, the “crust bond” issue is easily settled with a quick tug and twist. If there’s still a tag-along, then it’s just meant to be. Two pieces it is! :) If not, you can always pin the other guy down with a fork.

… just like prom night.

Go for what you like. Kind of like picking players in grade school the best go first.

I eat my pizza with a sharp knife and fork. I just don’t like to get my hands messy with food. (Plaster dust? Paint? I’m fine with that.) For the record, I don’t iron anything if I can help it!