Is it ok to eat chicken with your fingers?

**rajpoot** · 10-10-2011, 15:07

Order boneless chicken

**stratigos vasilios** · 10-10-2011, 15:10

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** · 10-10-2011, 16:03

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

**Rhyfelwyr** · 10-10-2011, 16:39

Originally Posted by stratigos vasilios

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** · 10-10-2011, 17:03

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** · 10-10-2011, 17:13

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

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is only fun if you use your hands.

**The Stranger** · 10-10-2011, 17:46

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** · 10-10-2011, 18:09

Originally Posted by rajpoot

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.

**Subotan** · 10-11-2011, 00:26

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

**Secura** · 10-11-2011, 09:52

Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump

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...

Originally Posted by stratigos vasilios

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.

Originally Posted by The Stranger

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

Won't somebody please think of the children?!

**Andres** · 10-11-2011, 10:24

Originally Posted by The Stranger

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.