Fork? Fuggedaboutit
Worse than birthers: Jon Stewart mocks Donald Trump for pathetic pizza form inPalin pow-wow
Donald Trump has done some crazy things lately: Pretend to run for president, embrace the birthers, put Gary Busey back on television.
But none of his shenanigans has been as outrageous as his actions over the weekend, according to Jon Stewart on The Daily Show on Wednesday night. No, not his paparazzi-flanked meeting with Sarah Palin. The way he ate his "real New York" pizza.
First there was the location: Famous Famiglia's, an Albanian(!) chain smattered all across New York and the country. In my brief life as a New Yorker, on my block there were two pizza-by-the-slice places across the street from each other, Famiglia and Koronet. Locals never went to Famiglia. Ever. And while Stewart suggested a handful of New York's most famous pizza places — Lombardi's, Grimaldi's, John's of Bleecker, Totonno's on Coney Island, Arturo's — I'm going to need to add Di Fara in Brooklyn to the list.
But Stewart really went full Italian when Trump was pictured both stacking his pizza slices and eating them with a fork. Stacking is never OK, but I'll give Trump the benefit of a doubt on the fork. There's a time and a place for eating pizza with utensils, and those places are usually in Chicago and at nice restaurants where European-style, super-thin-crust pizza comes on a real plate. Never with a pizza by the slice or on a paper plate.
It looks to me like Trump hasn't eaten at many humble pizza joints in a while — talk about out of touch. For anyone who needs a primer on the proper way to eat a slice of Manhattan's finest, let Stewart be your guide. When in doubt, fold that pizza like the Jets at the end of the season.
Would Stewart approve your pizza form? What New York pizza place would you take Sarah Palin to?
