Bill de Blasio sprinkles coconut on pizza and eats it crust first – a stunt to promote Kamala Harris

What a strange dough!

Former Mayor Bill de Blasio ate a slice of coconut-sprinkled pizza — crust first — on Thursday in a hard-to-digest video stunt to promote Kamala Harris's presidential candidacy on social media.

In a cheesy nod to the viral ridicule he received for eating pizza with a fork in 2014, de Blasio can be seen, frowning, pouring a bag of dried shredded coconut onto a slice of cheese pizza, according to footage he posted to X.

The 63-year-old politician and now academic then turns the piece over and eats it backwards – in what appears to be a completely insane attempt to attract the internet's attention – while sitting in a restaurant.

“I'm hungry. I'm going to eat pizza today,” he captioned the post – which was created to promote “Paisans for Kamala,” a virtual event featuring Italian-American celebrities and politicians this weekend.

“Join us virtually for Sunday dinner!” he tweeted. “RSVP at All of our special guests will talk about what their heritage means to them, why they passionately support @KamalaHarris, and what their favorite dish is.”

De Blasio hopes the cheeky retrospective will draw attention to the event, which features actors Steve Buscemi, Marisa Tomei, Lorraine Bracco, John Turturro and others.

Politicians such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congressman John Garamendi and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro will also appear at the virtual dinner.

“[It] brings together Italian-American celebrities, political leaders and community members for an evening of stories, recipes and conversation about the stakes in the 2024 election,” a press release said.

In January 2014, de Blasio was widely ridiculed for stabbing a smoked mozzarella and sausage pizza with a knife and fork at the Staten Island pizzeria Goodfellas.

For many true New Yorkers, this move was a culinary abomination, as they confess to only touching the city's specialty dish with their hands – and thus led to the hashtag #forkgate.

One food writer called the incident a “disaster,” others called it De Blasio's first mistake as mayor – and the Post joked: “A New Yorker.”

De Blasio defended himself at the time by saying that he had acquired the habit of eating pizza with a fork in his “ancestral homeland” of Italy, where most people use cutlery when eating pizza.