See Courteney Cox Eat Pizza In The Most Bizarre Way

Courteney Cox demonstrates how she eats pizza, which she claims is the New York method, but it involves a knife and fork, which is just not right.

By Mark McKee | Published 2 years ago

There are a few things that you have to do if you visit New York City; see the Empire State Building, marvel at the Statue of Liberty, or press yourself into the subway like a sardine. One of the most vital things you must do when you hit the Big Apple is to indulge in the world-class pizza the city offers. Of course, native New Yorkers have their own way of eating pizza, and Courteney Cox decided to take to Twitter to teach all of us nincompoops how it’s done with a very unusual technique. 

There are only so many actors in Hollywood with a deeper tie to New York than Courteney Cox, with her role as Monica Gellar on Freinds, and she uses her deep knowledge of the customs to teach us how we’re supposed to eat pizza. She sits at a diner and begins by using a knife and fork to cut off the end of the slice; you heard that right, a knife and a fork. She then advises that to be like a Sicilian, you should roll up the slice to eat it like a cannoli, getting a little confirmation from another patron of the establishment. 

The Friends actor then goes even further by showing how to triple up on the cheese by scraping it all up to the crust and then cutting the rest off. Courteney Cox then hands the scraps to the second patron and eats all of the cheese on the crust of the large New York slice. Finally, the actress issues the challenge that if you want to be a real New Yorker, you have to eat the entire crust in three bites or less. 

Courteney Cox had been working in the industry for about a decade, with roles in movies like Masters of the Universe with Dolph Lundgren and Frank Langella and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective with Jim Carrey. However, in 1994 she got her big break as one of the six iconic characters in perhaps the biggest sitcom in the history of the industry. Her character in Friends, Monica Gellar, is the neurotic member of the group with an OCD and overly competitive demeanor that causes the rest of them to avoid her wrath. 

Like the rest of her co-stars, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, and Jennifer Aniston, she appeared in all 235 episodes of the ten-season run of the series. She later got her next most significant role as an ambitious journalist, Gale Weathers, in the Scream franchise. Not only did she play the reporter who has so far survived every outing of Ghostface, but she also met her husband, David Arquette, on the production. 

Courteney Cox may have spent an entire decade as a New Yorker on the set of Friends, but her approach to pizza is a stark difference from the fold-and-run technique the city is known for. The post’s comment section seems to agree that her method is too time-consuming. No New Yorker has the time for that kind of pizza consumption; when you get to the city, grab a slice, fold it, and keep running to keep up.