Italians do everything better, including cutting pizza with scissors . Yes, scissors.

In Rome, chefs use scissors, or shears, for pizza al taglio , or by the cut pizza. In America, where we favor the pizza wheel, slicing pizza with scissors seems strange to pizzeria customers, but its actually quite utilitarian .

At Italian eatery Nostrana , in Portland, Oregon, James Beard-nominated chef and co-owner Cathy Whims has been using shears to cut her Neapolitan pizzas since a few months after the restaurant opened, in 2005. When we opened, it was important to me that wed be as much like a real Italian restaurant as we could, Whims told HuffPost. I didnt want to cut the pizza, because in Italy, the pizzas arent cut.

She found a special pizza knife from Italy that had a serrated tip and put it on the table for customers to use some of them stole the knives. But one day, a happy accident occurred when a server got fed up trying to explain to a customer that the restaurant didnt cut the pizza before presenting it.

[The server] grabbed a pair of office scissors, and it took off from there, Whims said. So all the servers started serving pizza with scissors. Even though it wasnt how I traditionally envisioned our pizza being eaten, Im really happy with them now.