Update, Oct. 28: Yep, it’s a look-alike.

Justin Bieber has committed several crimes: assaulting paparazzi, driving under the influence, vandalism, not to mention all of his crimes against fashion. But the Canadian pop star’s most heinous offense, in the eyes of social media, took place during a recent lunch on a West Hollywood park bench. Bieber has a burrito. It is fully unwrapped. He is holding it by both ends, like an ear of corn, and biting down into its fleshy middle, like some kind of sociopath.

does....justin bieber not know how... burritos work ? pic.twitter.com/WWKP2ttARe — ryan bassil (@ryanbassil) October 25, 2018

A great wailing and gnashing of teeth commenced: “Who eats a burrito this way?” “What kind of monster is Justin Bieber?” “What happens when the fillings pour out onto his ripped jeans?” “Is this a Canadian thing?”

Someone tell Justin Bieber that a burrito is not a harmonica. pic.twitter.com/yIqnSjqWMA — Eden Dranger (@Eden_Eats) October 26, 2018

If you switch the way Justin Bieber eats burritos and how Michael Bublé eats corn, you have a normal human person pic.twitter.com/I7N5XW7NKO — E’Twaun Paramoore (@Marco_Romo) October 25, 2018

The thing is, it might not even be Justin Bieber. A Reddit user snapped the photo that he claims is of Bieber, but the star has not come forth to plead guilty to his food crimes. Vanity Fair seems to believe it is the star, because he’s been photographed before in those items of clothing. A BuzzFeed analysis thinks it is just a look-alike, citing the bushiness of Bieber’s eyebrows and the width of his knuckles as evidence. The world may never truly know how Bieber eats his burritos.

But it did kick off yet another food-police conversation about how things Should and Should Not be eaten. Pizza should not be eaten with a fork, unless you are in Italy. McDonald’s hamburgers should not be eaten with a knife and fork, unless you are in France. Kit Kats should be broken off individually, not bitten into like a chocolate bar. String cheese should not be bitten into before it is peeled.

But some people came to maybe-Bieber’s defense. There are, in fact, other ways to eat a burrito. A “wet” or smothered burrito, which is served on a plate covered with sauce, is eaten with a knife and fork, and presumably from either end. As for a handheld burrito — well, this method seems awfully impractical and messy, but it does allow him to get straight to the good stuff and avoid the dense and bland tortilla folds at the end.

Even Chrissy Teigen, model and author of recipe books, agrees:

the only way they should be eaten tbh, ends are just carb factories https://t.co/wH7ipCQuNC — chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) October 26, 2018

Should we make fun of public figures for the way they eat? My colleague Zachary Pincus-Roth thinks that people should be free to eat food however they like.

Customs and preferences can differ not only from person to person but across geography and time. Helen Zoe Veit, an associate professor at Michigan State University who focuses on the history of food and nutrition, notes that in the early 20th century, wealthy Americans ate bananas with forks and knives and asparagus with their fingers. “The idea that some ways of eating are more ‘authentic’ than others relies on a very static idea about culture, as something that does not change,” says Jennifer Jensen Wallach, a history professor at the University of North Texas who wrote the book “How America Eats.”

On the other hand: Making fun of Justin Bieber is something that unites us all in these troubled times, so I say go forth. Honor this poor burrito’s memory by making jokes about how Bieber looks like a raccoon that has pawed something out of the trash.

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