Is it ok to eat chicken with your fingers?

[The Stranger]

im fingering a chicken right now.

in my defense, the entire thread was thus determined by its geist trhat it could not but culminate in this reply

[classical_hero]

Was it finger licking good?

[The Stranger]

no it was rather shallow and pedantic.

[Andres]

So, you were at a restaurant, pecked a chicken and tried to make it eggstatic? That's awfowl.

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Was it finger licking good?

KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN!!!!!

[Fragony]

Was it finger licking good?

That's just wrong, sniffing is ok though

[Vladimir]

That's just wrong, sniffing is ok though

This from the man who eats chicken with paws. Which Chinese restaurant were you at?

[Togakure]

In my experience here in the States, eating chicken with fingers is usually normal, particularly with fried, baked, broiled, BBQ chicken, etc.. If the chicken is integrated with other things (like in a casserole dish or the like) then not. That said, licking your fingers while you do would be fine at Kentucky Fried Chicken, but not in a more "upstanding" restaurant. Really though, I move freely between heathen and debutant when it comes to manners depending on where I am and who I'm with, so I'm probably not the best source of manners info. That's my take though, in any case.

[Yoyoma1910]

I was always taught that it is proper etiquette to eat chicken with your hands, so I don't fully understand the question. Granted, there is a protocol as to which portions and at which point one switches from utensil to digits. But mainly it's common sense.

[Fragony]

This from the man who eats chicken with paws. Which Chinese restaurant were you at?

!!!!!!!! ohnoes

[The Stranger]

I was always taught that it is proper etiquette to eat chicken with your hands, so I don't fully understand the question. Granted, there is a protocol as to which portions and at which point one switches from utensil to digits. But mainly it's common sense.

-_- its all rather obsolete.

[Yoyoma1910]

-_- its all rather obsolete.

I have to completely disagree with you. Table manners are still very important, just as it's important not to be picking your nose while you talk to people. If you cannot maintain at least a modicum of decent table behavior, it shows that you have little respect for those around you.

[The Stranger]

perhaps, but a minimum of respect for your surroundings has nothing to do with order in which you use your cutlery and the way you hold your cup.

[Arjos]

I have to completely disagree with you. Table manners are still very important, just as it's important not to be picking your nose while you talk to people. If you cannot maintain at least a modicum of decent table behavior, it shows that you have little respect for those around you.

Gah, 2.000 years ago was etiquette to vomit etc, while eating laying down and using your fingers...

Customs come and go, I agree that what matters is to respect one another, but some of the rules are just silly and made to create elitism...

[Samurai Waki]

It depends on the kind of chicken usually... Grilled or baked chicken I tend to eat with knife and fork; fried chicken tends to be with fingers... though it's more a personal preference.

[Montmorency]

Remember: it is good manners to barp and fart while eating and to leave some food on the plate when one is done. One must be polite to the chef, after all.

[a completely inoffensive name]

Who the hell eats chicken wings with their hand? You scrap off everything off the bone with a knife and fork into a food processor and you make chicken slop by adding in salt and BBQ sauce.

Does nobody here drink their meat like a normal person?

[Subotan]

I have to completely disagree with you. Table manners are still very important, just as it's important not to be picking your nose while you talk to people. If you cannot maintain at least a modicum of decent table behavior, it shows that you have little respect for those around you.

Pretty much. Saying manners don't matter is like saying it doesn't matter to use correct English when on the internet and tHt iTs oK tO sPk lYk dIs aL dA tIme

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Who the hell eats chicken wings with their hand? You scrap off everything off the bone with a knife and fork into a food processor and you make chicken slop by adding in salt and BBQ sauce.

Does nobody here drink their meat like a normal person?

That's sick bro.

[frogbeastegg]

If the chicken is properly cooked it should easily peel off the bones with a knife and fork, like undoing a coat. A couple of motions and all of the bones lift away to the side of the plate. If the meat is still fighting to remain attached then it's not been cooked long enough to become tender, and the cook should be ashamed. That's how I eat roast chicken, or other 'proper' chicken-on-bone dishes. It's possible to eat wings this way with a little practice; as long as they are not crispy to the point if being rock solid the point of a knife will pop open the wing joint and voila, exposed meat. Easier than swapping back to a knife and fork to tackle the accompanying vegetables.

Fried chicken, BBQ chicken, and all of the finger-food varieties should be eaten with the fingers. Otherwise you are missing the point.

[Ibrahim]

crud!

I put no, when I meant yes.

that is to say, yes, it is ok to eat chicken with your fingers. I don't see the problem with it.

[A Nerd]

I like to take leftover chicken that I ate with a fork and knife and make a salad out of it and put it on bread then eat it with my hands in sandwich form.