Patrick Stewart Sparks International Twitter Debate on Pizza Crust
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With just one Tweet, Patrick Stewart launched a global discussion on an issue that has been feverishly contested for hundreds of years: If you didn’t eat the crusts of your pizza, did you really eat the pizza?
Stewart asked this question and posted a photo of the leftover, nibbled-at crusts remaining on his plate after a pizza lunch in Rome, the capital of the country that invented pizza, imbuing his question with historic significance.
Have you actually eaten pizza if you don’t eat the crust? Discuss. pic.twitter.com/thKoTpIP2i
— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) May 28, 2015
The Internet had a lot of thoughts. (When has the Internet ever not had a lot of thoughts?)
@SirPatStew Get that crust eaten, young man.
— Phil Sherry (@nonswearyphil) May 28, 2015
@SirPatStew course you have eaten it, you just haven’t finished it 😃 — StockothePiercer (@MickStocko) May 28, 2015
@SirPatStew My friends and I call them the “pizza bones”
— Ian Gifford (@LeGiff) May 28, 2015
@SirPatStew If one eats the crusts oneself, what is there to share with the canine family members?
— Broken (@kev_martin) May 28, 2015
@SirPatStew of course! I never eat the crust. Unless it’s filled with cheese. But then is it really crust?
— Mike Paul (@mikepaul) May 28, 2015
@SirPatStew I think the crust is probably the best bit, all that golden brown cheese, toasty dough, it’s heaven!
— Eden Apocalypse (@Apocalypse_End) May 28, 2015
@SirPatStew Those are just the handles.
— David Dennis (@The_Wolfster) May 28, 2015
@SirPatStew the crust is just a pizza handle, it is to be discarded like the shells of a lobster or used as stock for pizza soup
— Rei_ (@Random_Factor) May 28, 2015
@SirPatStew This is cheating.
— Lilah Vandenburgh (@lilahv) May 28, 2015
@SirPatStew pizza and crusts is like the pope and nuns can’t have one without the other
— Sky News Engineer (@andymyatt) May 28, 2015
Twenty minutes after his original post, Stewart penned another pizza Tweet, this time to clear the air about whether or not he used a fork and knife to eat the pizza, which is considered sacrilege in America. (Though we will point out that Italians widely use cutlery to eat pizza.)
Knife and fork were for cutting slices. Finger nails just don’t work. Unobservant please note teeth marks in crust remnants. Mine, anyway.
— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) May 28, 2015
What do you think? Is the crust essential to the pizza? Would you dream of using cutlery to eat a pizza? Do you believe that Stewart really ate the pizza like a true American? Discuss.
—Maria Yagoda, @MariaYagoda
