Is it ok to eat chicken with your fingers?

**Yoyoma1910** · 10-13-2011, 03:39

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.

**The Stranger** · 10-13-2011, 12:04

Originally Posted by 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.

-_- its all rather obsolete.

**Yoyoma1910** · 10-14-2011, 20:25

Originally Posted by The Stranger

-_- 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** · 10-15-2011, 01:18

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.

**Samurai Waki** · 10-15-2011, 01:29

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** · 10-15-2011, 01:36

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** · 10-15-2011, 07:18

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?

**Arjos** · 10-15-2011, 01:29

Originally Posted by Yoyoma1910

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...

**Subotan** · 10-15-2011, 08:53

Originally Posted by Yoyoma1910

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