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In keeping with the sober, somber, issues-oriented presidential campaign that we’ve seen so far this year, our very own Ohio Gov. John Kasich made headlines in New York City for how he ate his pizza.
Apparently, there is a right way and a wrong way to eat pizza in the Big Apple, as Bill de Blasio and Donald Trump have discovered when they, too, committed the ultimate faux pas of cutting their slices of pizza with a knife and then eating the pieces with their fork rather than folding it in half. And all three now-politicians had the audacity to commit their sin in the presence of NYC media, the ultimate arbiters of class and decorum.
The journalists/paparazzi pounced. "WTF is wrong with John Kasich?" squealed the New York Post, which mocked Kasich as "Mr. Midwestern Manners" and noted that the Ohio governor "didn't score many points" with New York City voters with his actions. Jezebel.com mused that such a colossal error could be made by an "irritable and apparently disturbed man from Ohio."
Kasich needs to come back to Dayton, where we pioneered the cut-it-up-into-tiny-squares school of pizza-pie slicery. No knife and fork needed.
Just please don’t try to fold it in half.
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