Breaking pasta and other food-related faux pas that annoy culinary experts and purists

When you travel around you may notice that the people in the location where you are visiting have particular habits or customs with how they serve or consume food and drinks. If you miss out on them and don’t follow suit, you are likely to get some stares from those around you.

Take for example eating pizza. Are you one that uses cutlery or just grab it in your hands and chow it down? The former is the proper way to eat it in Chicago, and the old country, while in New York the latter is the custom.

To get an idea of what some of these food-related faux pas may be, the question “What is your country’s equivalent of breaking spaghetti?” has been put to social media users. Here are some of the responses.

Food-related faux pas that annoy culinary experts and purists

One common response from people is that you should never put ketchup on a hot dog, the only exception to that rule is for kids. No where is this rule more heavily enforced than in the Windy City, where some famous local restaurants refuse to serve the red sauce.

That led Heinz’s to launch a campaign, installing ketchup dispensers in front of them that drew the ridicule of former Chicago resident Stephen Colbert.

Putting ketchup on your steak is also a no-no, especially in Texas. And social media users pleaded not to order them well-done.

As a matter of fact, putting ketchup on a number of different inappropriate foods seems to be one of the main complaints across the comments online.

In Canada, you’d be ill-advised to put shredded cheese on poutine, the nation’s beloved comfort food. The French fries should only be topped with brown gravy and cheese curds.

If you are in Italy and Parmesan cheese is not served with the dish you ordered, don’t ask for it. That is unless you want to truly insult your host, and potentially find yourself on the street.

If you don’t want to be uncouth while eating sushi, don’t mix the wasabi with soy sauce, especially if it is freshly grated. That’s just one of many transgressions that you can cause at a sushi restaurant according to Huffington Post.

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