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?