The social media platform formerly known as Twitter blew up Monday evening in response to a tweet from Emmy-award winning TV anchor Brian Pope.

Dorsia, the modern Italian restaurant at 1307 E. Brady St., sells anywhere between 400-500 pounds of its housemade pasta every weekend. 

But it seems there are scads of people across the nation who are appalled by the notion of eating pasta off of a wooden board, including Matt Stopera, the author of this Buzzfeed article covering the viral post, who states: "Regardless of what anyone says, I think it's safe to say that nobody should show this to an Italian person."

Ahem, Matt: The food geek in me would like to point out that you – and most of the respondents to Mr. Pope's post – are apparently ignorant of the Italian tradition of "Pasta Alla Tavola" the art of eating hand-made pasta from a wooden board. 

Meanwhile, the Milwaukeean in me would like to point out that Dorsia is not a place that geeked out food people should get all worked up about.

I mean, come on.  The restaurant is named for the scene in the movie "American Psycho" in which protagonist Patrick Bateman was plagued by his inability to get reservation at the fictional restaurant of the same name.

But, I digress. 

These are funny

When you read through the comments (and the comments on the comments), most of them are pretty hilarious.

“Please serve things on plates.”  – @blagojevism

“surely there was another way to serve this” – @imbobswaget

“we have to liberate the midwest” – @youwouldntpost

“Why in the name of Chef Boyardee would a restaurant serve pasta on a plank” – @LCommentariat

“TF IS A PASTA FLIGHT AND WHY IS IT ON A CHEESE BOARD” – @khepra99

And - maybe the best one of all: 

“I cannot respect a restaurant that would serve me spaghetti on a two-by-four.” – @alifwst

But this is even funnier

When we called Jeno Cataldo, owner of Dorsia, he answered the phone with: 

“I’ll need to call you back. I’m at the hardware store picking up some two-by-fours for dinner service.”