Clearly bored, and with nothing better to do on this snow day, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio apparently decided to just drop a kind-of-weird tweet and see what would happen:

I have deemed the pizza at Lee's Tavern on Staten Island structurally sound enough to eat without a fork and knife. pic.twitter.com/yddVW8aGpt — Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) February 9, 2017

De Blasio, of course, is a New Yorker who not only sometimes eats pizza with a knife and fork but who defends the practice, so he was already on thin ice with city residents. And New Yorkers, predictably, were not having any of this nonsense either.

I have never liked you less than this very moment. — JCH (@crossland68) February 9, 2017

@NYCMayor all pizzas are structurally sound enough to eat without a fork and knife, ya dingus — Jacob Shamsian (@JayShams) February 9, 2017

you're such a Boston putz. hard to believe you were born in NY — Ron Bruning (@bruning_ron) February 9, 2017

@RyanGirdusky Bill de Blasio, man of the people — jason meek (@jasonmeek1) February 9, 2017

Some, however, took it a little too far: