@roger,
My italian teacher and later pal took the class out for lunch in LA as a class outing. Of course we went to a place that had, among other good food, pizza.
She used a knife and fork to eat it. She was born in Bologna and went to university in Padova, or maybe it was the opposite. She came to the US for more studies, and married a creepy guy, which she figured out later. I don't remember the details, but I remember it hitting the papers. Interesting woman, good teacher.