And 100% of men in all professions have been told the same.

This.

I’d make a face if someone whacked me in the arm too - no idea why this was such a big deal.

:| Please read. I’m working very hard with her to get her talking and shitty adults only make it take longer.

This. I don’t really care about blotting greasy food, but if it’s dripping, I gotta make some of it go away or I’m going to end up tracking grease stains everywhere.

Exactly! I don’t want grease dropping everywhere/on me/on the table. I’ll eat a whole pizza by myself so this isn’t about giving off an air of being a delicate flower. I like my food the way I like it.

If my fries, chicken or burger has the amount of grease on top as some of the pizza I have blotted, I will blot those suckers too. Bacon in my house anyways is placed on paper towel before serving to sop up some of that bacon so that’s that. I’m not a small woman by any means and don’t give a hoot about saving…

Young enough to be out at 3am, old enough to get acid reflux from overly greasy pizza #thisis30

Seriously, fuck this article. If I get a slice appropriately-sized for folding, that fold is gonna create a grease funnel and drip that shit all over everything. Maybe they should “clean” the damn thing before they sell it to me - or at least serve it in something that would absorb the excess grease.

Exactly...I’d rather blot the goddam pizza than blot my chin as the grease is dribbling down it.

Or, if you wanted pizza without a mouthful of oil, you could just blot the too-greasy pizza. There’s a lot that’s good about pizza that isn’t the additional teaspoon of oil that collects on top, and different pizzas produce varying amounts of grease that may or may not necessitate blotting for maximal enjoyment. WTF…

I really do not get how this is impolite?

Same here! I love pizza, but sometimes pizza is super greasy and I just don’t like the extra oil, so I blot it. This is actually the first time I have ever heard that it is supposed to save you calories. I feel like this is kind of the equivalent of getting dressing on the side - I just don’t like that much of it, so…

There are some who would disagree with you on this!

I love pizza and I don’t mind grease, but I’m also honest about my limitations when it comes to eating hand-held foods without making a complete mess of myself and looking like a toddler. If the grease isn’t mopped, it’s 100% going to be on my shirt and jeans within seconds.

Woah now, you’re dangerously close to the idea that the way you eat your food is no one’s business but yours.

Yeah, I get if you were at some nice and mom and pop place and the Italian grandma who personally made your pizza brought it over, but otherwise? Blot away I say.

Okay, it’s usually 2 or 3 slices. Which is too many. And I don’t want to say hold the tomato because sometimes I want a little bit. And it’s easier to pick it out than to say “Can I get just ONE piece of tomato, thinly sliced?”. I’m trying to be easy here.

I’m with you.

I really do not get how this is impolite? At the cheese slice places I used to frequent in college, the lines were half a block long. Nobody was looking to see what one did with one’s slice. By this line of thinking, adding chili flakes would be impolite; adding extra parmesan would be impolite; adding salt/pepper…