What a strange fabric!
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday posted a nasty video on social media promoting Kamala Harris' presidential bid and eating a coconut-crusted pizza right off the crust.
In a tongue-in-cheek nod to the online backlash he received in 2014 for eating pizza with a fork, Mayor de Blasio frowns as he sprinkles desiccated coconut shavings on a cheese pizza. Posted in X.
While sitting in a restaurant, the 63-year-old politician-turned-academic flips his slice and eats it upside down, clearly in a ridiculous attempt to grab internet attention.
“I'm hungry. I'm eating pizza today,” he wrote underneath the post, which was created to promote “Paisans for Kamala,” a virtual event featuring Italian-American stars and politicians this weekend.
“Join us virtually for Sunday Dinner!” he tweeted. translation: All our special guests share what their roots mean to them, why they're huge fans of @KamalaHarris and their favorite dishes.”
Mayor de Blasio hopes the sexy reminiscence will help generate buzz for the event, which also features actors Steve Buscemi, Marisa Tomei and Lorraine Bracco. John Turturro and others.
Politicians including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Rep. John Garamendi and Rep. Rosa DeLauro will also appear at the virtual dinner.
“[It] “The event will bring together Italian-American celebrities, political leaders and community members for an evening of storytelling, recipes and discussion of the importance of the 2024 election,” according to a press release.
In January 2014, Mayor de Blasio was widely ridiculed for eating a smoked mozzarella and sausage pie with a knife and fork at Goodfellas pizzeria in Staten Island.
The move was culinary anathema to many die-hard New Yorkers who profess to cook only homemade versions of New York's signature dishes, and gave birth to the hashtag “#forkgate.”
One food writer called the incident a “disaster,” another called it Mayor de Blasio's first blunder, and The Washington Post mocked it, saying, “New Yorkers are right.”
At the time, Mayor de Blasio defended himself by saying he picked up the habit of using a fork in Italy, his “ancestral homeland,” where most people use utensils to eat pizza.
