“... and confirm in my mind that a white man who is eager to play his guitar in public belongs in one of the deepest circles of Hell.”

I could not care less if you blot, but so help me if you pick up a knife and fork....

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

I was joking around about the bacon sandwich.

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…

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.

I call horseshit. The best option is to suck on other people’s greasy napkins and pitch your self-respect into the nearest rubbish bin.

I only bother if the pizza looks greasier than usual. Most pizza doesn’t require the blot, in my experience of eating a lot.

It’s rude to tell me how to eat my pizza.

I’m with you.

When I was a child and my parents would leave me and my sister alone on a weekend night, they would buy us soda and a Tony’s pepperoni pizza. I have vivid memories of sitting in front of the oven and watching the pizza cook, the pepperonis turning from salmon colored flat disks into dark red cups, brimming full of hot…

EXACTLY...

But, like, what if what she really wants is that exact slice of pizza, post-blotting? The sort of cheap slice that generally gets that treatment isn’t typically served by someone who really gives a fuck, so I don’t see what harm it does.

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…

Yes, you could. But sometimes you want pizza. And sometimes there’s just a tiny bit too much grease. Nothing wrong with blotting. Just like nothing wrong with taking out the 8 slices of tomato that come with a burger. One is enough!

Or prevent it from running off the slice and onto your shirt, pants, hands, etc.

What?!?!! You don’t want awesome little grease pimples surrounding your mouth and nose! Blasphemy

It’s not even about calories...it’s just better to end up on the cardboard than my hands, around my mouth, on my clothes..etc.

seconded.