Is it ok to eat chicken with your fingers?

[Andres]

The soup thread made me wonder : how do you guys eat chicken?

I find it really hard to eat chicken with knife and fork. It just takes ages to remove the flesh of those bones and I usually simply don't bother and use my fingers to pick the flesh of them.

I know it's frowned upon by a lot of people, but I even do it at restaurants (allthough I tend to avoid to ask chicken for exactly that reason; I chicken out of ordering chicken so to speak).

I feel that etiquette on eating chicken should just be rewritten. It's just way too annoying having to eat it with knife and fork.

So, how do you eat chicken and how do you feel about current etiquette demanding you eat it with knife and fork?

[Arjos]

I actually just finished some chicken, and I used two forks :P
Greasy fingers won't cut it with work and writing...
As for the etiquette I think that eating with the fingers is out of the question, but I don't really care about it, at BBQs I demand that cutlery gets thrown away XD

[Major Robert Dump]

I can stick an entire piece of chicken in my mouth and just pull out the bone, tied in a knot

[Andres]

Greasy fingers won't cut it with work and writing...

Soap was invented for a reason.

I can stick an entire piece of chicken in my mouth and just pull out the bone, tied in a knot

Pics or it didn't happen.

[rajpoot]

Order boneless chicken

[stratigos vasilios]

Depends where the chicken is from or what parts of the chicken your eating (and I guess your company).

If I ordered KFC, it'd tackle that bad boy with my hands! If I ordered a chicken breast at a restaurant it'd be knife and fork, and if I was eating around familiar company at home it'd be hands all the way!

[InsaneApache]

Use hands then wipe them on a passing peasant when finished.

[Rhyfelwyr]

If I ordered KFC, it'd tackle that bad boy with my hands! If I ordered a chicken breast at a restaurant it'd be knife and fork, and if I was eating around familiar company at home it'd be hands all the way!

We don't even have knives and forks at KFC.

As for me, if I buy drumsticks or thighs I eat them with my fingers because a fork would be impossible. But I use the knife/fork for breast pieces.

[Tuuvi]

Here in the US, chicken with the bones in is considered finger food. You only see it in delis and fast food places such as KFC.

[rajpoot]

This talk of chicken made me crave so I went out and had tandoori chicken for dinner. And I realised that eating something like this

is only fun if you use your hands.

[The Stranger]

chicken can be eaten with your hands.

anyhow... etiquettes are so victorian and only hysterical women still care about that. Are you a hysterical woman, Andres?

Rice is eaten with spoon and fork, the fork will be held in the left hand and is used to shove the rice onto the spoon, the spoon is held in the right hand. It is not proper to switch the spoon and fork.

etiquettes dont take the individual into account and are therefor not from this time. I am a left handed person and i eat with my spoon in my left hand and fork in the right. my right to be an individual allows me to whipe my arse with victorian etiquettes.

[TheLastDays]

Order boneless chicken

I wouldn't want to see a boneless chicken

Anyway, we're talking about chicken in a whole, or thighs (no idea what the correct english term for that is), right?

I just eat it with my fingers but I also tend to not order it when I'm in nice restaurants.

[Beskar]

The more difficult one would be BBQ ribs.

[Peasant Phill]

The more difficult one would be BBQ ribs.

Ah, but it's permitted to eat those with your hands.

[Veho Nex]

The more difficult one would be BBQ ribs.

I just had BBQ pork ribs last night. My dad and I were talking about how if you boil them, like most noob chefs do, they lose what makes them great. You tear into those badboys with toof and nail

[Hosakawa Tito]

Chicken wings is finger food. Elegant no? And for those who wish for a less messy experience, click here. I prefer my wings less sloppy so I pop them on the grill for a few minutes to sear the sauce onto them.

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Why would it be a problem?

[Subotan]

Don't use your hands to eat in a restaurant with a linen tablecloth

[Cute Wolf]

while it was permitted, I can eat chicken with mere spoon fork, or chopsticks, nope, not mere chicken meat, it's fried chicken. the key is eat some of the bones, it's not much a problem as long as you chew em throughtly

[rajpoot]

Chicken wings is finger food. Elegant no? And for those who wish for a less messy experience, click here.

Shh...That's supposed to be a secret!

[Secura]

I can stick an entire piece of chicken in my mouth and just pull out the bone, tied in a knot

Think of all the things you could do with such an amazing party trick...

If I ordered KFC, it'd tackle that bad boy with my hands! If I ordered a chicken breast at a restaurant it'd be knife and fork, and if I was eating around familiar company at home it'd be hands all the way!

I'm with stratigos on this one; KFC is supposed to be finger-lickin' good, it'd be complete heresy to eat the stuff with any form of cutlery! If I'm cooking chicken at home, it's usually breast meat and I'll use a knife and fork.

anyhow... etiquettes are so victorian and only hysterical women still care about that

Won't somebody please think of the children?!

[Andres]

anyhow... etiquettes are so victorian and only hysterical women still care about that. Are you a hysterical woman, Andres?

Only on Saturday evenings...

Anyway, eating chicken with your hands has the advantage that you can lick the tasty fat off your fingers too. It just tastes better if you eat it with your fingers

There used to be a time where I cared about what other people might think and that, perhaps, it may make them feel disgusted. Nowadays, I no longer really care because I find that if you go to a restaurant, you're not supposed to constantly look at the other people there. The people who don't like others eating their chicken with their fingers can only be disgusted, if they look at you. Staring is rude.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Only on Saturday evenings...

Anyway, eating chicken with your hands is the advantage, you can lick the tasty fat off your fingers too. It just tastes better if you eat it with your fingers

There used to be a time where I cared about what other people might think and that, perhaps, it may make them feel disgusted. Nowadays, I no longer really care because I find that if you go to a restaurant, you're not supposed to constantly look at the other people there. The people who don't like others eating their chicken with their fingers can only be disgusted, if they look at you. Staring is rude.

Disgusted people leaving the restaurant means more shicken for you.

[Sarmatian]

Disgusted people leaving the restaurant means more shicken for you.

One could say they chickened out.

[Fragony]

Breast can easily be cut of after you remove wings and paws. As for the wings and paws, never seen anybody use anything but their fingers

[InsaneApache]

I defy anyone to eat salt and pepper chicken wings with a knife and fork.

[Peasant Phill]

Breast can easily be cut of after you remove wings and paws. As for the wings and paws, never seen anybody use anything but their fingers

You can scrape of the meat with your knife. It's possible but far to much work for my taste.
That's the reason chicken leg/wing, rabbit, lobster, ... aren't my favourite food, there's far to much hassle to get to the good bits.

I once didn't mind peeling shrimp but that was because I caught them myself and it was 'part of the experience'.

[The Stranger]

Only on Saturday evenings...

Anyway, eating chicken with your hands has the advantage that you can lick the tasty fat off your fingers too. It just tastes better if you eat it with your fingers

There used to be a time where I cared about what other people might think and that, perhaps, it may make them feel disgusted. Nowadays, I no longer really care because I find that if you go to a restaurant, you're not supposed to constantly look at the other people there. The people who don't like others eating their chicken with their fingers can only be disgusted, if they look at you. Staring is rude.

yes and talking to Strangers is forbidden, so neither can they ever say something about it. gotta love this world!

[Zim]

I'm with stratigos on this one; KFC is supposed to be finger-lickin' good, it'd be complete heresy to eat the stuff with any form of cutlery! If I'm cooking chicken at home, it's usually breast meat and I'll use a knife and fork.

I don't get to eat at KFC much anymore but I agree that a knife and fork are heresy. Sporks are ok but only for the side dishes.

[Fisherking]

yes and talking to Strangers is forbidden, so neither can they ever say something about it. gotta love this world!

It isn’t eating the chicken with his fingers that makes them stare…its eating his mashed potatoes with his toes.