Clean Hands

"I eat donuts with whatever I can pierce them with, whether that be a fork, knife, chopsticks, or whatever. I just hate getting my fingers dirty."

"Pizza barely gets a pass because you can hold the crust."

"But if grease drips onto my hand somehow, it's irritating."

- Bjorn2Fall

Protect That Keyboard

"Typically I'd do it because I'm working at my PC and don't want to have to wipe my hands off every time I need to type something."

- Hrekires

Mindful Eating

"I use a fork and knife to slow me down."

- NairobiMuzungu

No More Overeating

"Using the fork and knife slows me down, it gives me more time to realize I'm filling up, and I end up stopping before I overeat."

- whomp1970

Depends on the Pizza

"Depends on the pizza, if it's thick and unwieldy absolutely laden with toppings, I might reach for a fork. But if it's a standard slice, I'm picking it up."

- StanYelnats3

Beating the Heat

"I'll use a knife and a fork when I want it right now, but if I bite into it when it’s too hot, the cheese will slap itself onto my chin, and I’ll scream."

- senorbane

Dental Issues

"I don't have a single freaking tooth left in my head. Just about anything I eat requires a sharp knife."

- Pitiful-Signal8063

"I've got plenty of teeth, but the ones in the front don't do a good job of meeting. So if I try to eat pizza without a fork and knife, my first bite doesn't go completely through the toppings, I pull the pizza away from my mouth... and all the toppings on the slice fall in my lap."

- the_quark

Good Point

"You ever tried to lift a slab of deep dish to your face?"

- Wazula23

Because, Italy

"That's the normal way of eating a traditional Italian pizza."

- ViridianKumquat

"I just watched an Anthony Bourdain episode, and everyone at this Naples pizza place was eating with a knife and fork."

- WiseTree710

"It's a perfectly valid and convenient way to consume pizza."

"Source: I'm Italian."

- Colosso95

Listen to Seinfeld

"How do you eat it? With your hands? (scoffs)."

- kofed62181

Preferences Matter

"Maybe because they want to?"

- Mentalfloss1

Social Perspective

"It looks neater, if you are in a setting with people you want to impress and want to come across as super tidy then a knife and fork would look okay."

- Usual-Constant-3744

Messy Situations

"Sometimes I have a little too many (inconvenient) ingredients on my pizza that make it hard to eat it with just my hands."

- UnicornPopPile

Signs of Aging

"Because I instinctively take unmanageable bites if I'm manhandling food. That was okay before I hit 40 and my metabolism lost its sense of adventure."

- Automatic-Choice-794

Enjoy the Food

"Mainly, it forces me to slow down and appreciate the pizza instead of just shoving it in."

"Also, it makes eating pizza more of a sensory experience. I can feel and hear how crunchy or thick the crust is by cutting into it. I can tell how much sauce is on it by how much I have to spoon it up after cutting. I can also see how stringy the cheese is by having to twirl it around my fork."

- Ok-Resource-7640

This just goes to show that we all have our preferences, even when it comes to how we want to eat our pizza.

Now, the most important thing is to respect everyone's choices here... and maybe go grab a slice of pizza for lunch.