What should I NOT do in front of rich people?

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 · 74 pts · 189d

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."

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 64 pts · 189d

What should I NOT do in front of rich people?

Care what out of touch rich fucks think.

ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 61 pts · 189d

What should I NOT do in front of rich people?

Diminish yourself or your self worth

hesh@quokk.au · 50 pts · 189d (1 reply)

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

cabbage@piefed.social · 3 pts · 188d

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 · 35 pts · 189d (2 replies)

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

Etterra@discuss.online · 5 pts · 188d (1 reply)

And I don't care if dead rich people's family are sad; there's still a right way to eat a pizza and it doesn't involve a goddamn fork.

Aeao@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 188d

Don’t tell me how to eat my food. Im not making demands of you.

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 26 pts · 189d

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

T156@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 188d (1 reply)

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 · 5 pts · 188d

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.

je_skirata@lemmy.today · 18 pts · 189d (8 replies)

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 pts · 189d (1 reply)

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 pts · 189d

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

rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 7 pts · 189d (4 replies)

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 · 5 pts · 189d (1 reply)
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starlinguk@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d

I had one with an entire burrata in the middle last Saturday. It required surgery with a knife.

adarza@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 189d (1 reply)

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

rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 188d

I'm talking about very flat pizza made by Italians who immigrated post WW2 and probably visit Italy almost every year, because that's actually really easy to do when you're in Europe.

Some pizza is just very bendy, it's fingerfood the same way that tortelloni are finger food - you could, but it's just more practical to use cutlery.

Cromer4ever@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d

If they're crazy, it's even worse if they're family members.

rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 17 pts · 189d

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

Etterra@discuss.online · 16 pts · 189d (2 replies)

If you see people eating pizza with a fork you mock them. I didn't care if its your best friend, mother, or the goddamn Pope. Although the current Pope is from Chicago so he knows better than to eat pizza with a fork like some kind of filthy degenerate.

treadful@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 189d (1 reply)

Although the current Pope is from Chicago so he knows better than to eat pizza with a fork like some kind of filthy degenerate.

They have that knife & fork deep dish out there, don't they?

Etterra@discuss.online · 4 pts · 188d

Not if you eat it correctly.

VibeSurgeon@piefed.social · 15 pts · 188d

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

CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 188d

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

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 188d (3 replies)

You do not need to impress the clods who eat pizza with flatware. These people would eat a sandwich with flatware if someone "more important" did it.

pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 188d (2 replies)

Reminds me of some show or movie I watched when at a wine tasting, some guy started listening to the wine with his ear and everybody copied him

funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 188d (1 reply)

I think it's just this meme you're remembering

pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 188d

I swear it was a tv show. I shall investigate and get back

K1nsey6@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 189d (1 reply)

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

starlinguk@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 189d

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

TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website · 11 pts · 189d (2 replies)

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

Asafum@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 189d

Cromer4ever@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 189d

bro ._.

ieatpwns@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 188d

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

Klear@quokk.au · 10 pts · 189d (5 replies)

Have your gazpacho warmed.

ReiRose@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 188d (2 replies)

Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 188d

Piping hot!

Klear@quokk.au · 3 pts · 188d

o/´/'/´/'7

yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 188d

Souper

Witchfire@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 188d

Peel your calzones

adarza@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 189d

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.

Jmsnwbrd@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 189d
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Nemo@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 189d (4 replies)

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 pts · 189d (3 replies)

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.

bluesheep@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 188d

Hell they'd probably not even recognise what the lyrics are about. Kind of like people playing "Hey Ya" at a wedding

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 189d (1 reply)

"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 pts · 188d

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. 

ptolemai@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 189d

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

Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 189d (1 reply)

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

howrar@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 189d

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

remon@ani.social · 5 pts · 189d

Giving a fuck about how you eat pizza.

Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 5 pts · 189d

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

(and Us americans, of course)

Maeve@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 189d (2 replies)

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 pts · 188d (1 reply)

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

Maeve@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 188d

It comes in handy for certain work situations.

just_another_person@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 189d (2 replies)

WTF?!?! Were you hanging out at Mar-a-lago or something?

PEOPLE WHO EAT PIZZA WITH A KNIFE AND FORK ARE ACTUAL ALIENS

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 189d (1 reply)

did you see how trump eats a pizza, he eats crust first.

just_another_person@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d

First off, no.

Second, GFY: https://www.newsweek.com/john-kasich-pizza-knife-fork-donald-trump-bill-de-blasio-448338

Search for Trump like you would in the Epstein docs. You're clearly shilling here.

veggay@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 189d

not care about their opinion

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 189d

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

howsetheraven@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 189d

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).

blarghly@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 189d

Honestly, just take a moment to feel whatever embarassment you feel about this event and accept that it happened. You can't do anything about it now, except learn from it.

I would say, in general, when you are in unfamiliar company you should just keep an eye on whatever everyone else is doing and follow their lead.

Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 3 pts · 189d (1 reply)

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

trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d

In front of any people really

DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 188d

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

rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 189d (1 reply)

I was in the Denver Art Museum riding the elevator down and shared the car with a guy who looked like he made $200k a year and his bitchy wife. She gave me the stinkeye while glaring at me while I chatted with her husband. I just squared up and gave her mid handbag and shoes a quick once over before shaking my head.

Shit, my boots cost more than her handbag and my watch probably costs as much as her shoes. Who cares if I'm in hiking boots and some old Polo long sleeve.

Bitch, art is for everyone. I know I'm working class but at least I buy shit that will last and is actually useful.

So I definitely recommend you do stuff like that.

Oh, he was definitely wearing a Rolex, but her handbag wasn't even CC

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 189d

Wat

dumbass@piefed.social · 2 pts · 189d (1 reply)

you been hanging out with Epstein's friends?

Cromer4ever@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 189d

idk