Eating with fingers, etc.

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When I was little I had problems eating with cutlery. I didn't like cutting up my food with a knife; my fork was my main eating tool, and because I'm right-handed I held it in my right hand, even though you're supposed to hold it in your left. I got into trouble for spilling food all down my front, and once for spearing a whole sausage on my fork and biting chunks out of it. "It's not a lollipop!" said my exasperated father.

Nowadays I can manage cutlery just fine, although when I sit down to a place that's laid with the knife on the right and the fork on the left I still switch them around. When I'm by myself, however, I abandon cutlery and eat with my fingers. If I'm eating, say, pasta with sauce I'll eat the pasta with my fingers and sop up the sauce with bread. If I'm eating something that's difficult to eat like this, like lentils or rice, I'll just scoop it in with a spoon.

I find that I much prefer to eat with my fingers. Does anyone else?

No.

But I also hold my fork in the right hand, and knife in left.

It depends what it is. For example, I find the idea of eating burgers, pizza, fish platters containing lobster, crab and/or prawns with their heads still on and skinny fries with a knife and fork absolutely ludacris. For most things I do use cutlery though.

i hated cutlery when i was a kid, was always getting told off for eating with my fingers! i use cutlery most the time now, but sometimes when i'm at home alone or at my parents- i do revert to eating with my fingers. I just prefer it!

When I eat burgers, I take them apart and eat it like that.
I have disgusted some people while doing this and I've tried to stop, but I can't help myself. It's just the way I eat them. When I was going out with GalileoAce for one of the first times and we had burgers, I let him know in advance that this is what I do. He was...kind of amused.

I can eat in a civilized manner. I do it as an act in public, to see how "proper" I can be.

Alone, I schnarf (not Thundercats) stuff down utensiless half the time. Food goes all over. It's great!

Usually, I'll use cutlery. However, sometimes I just feel like using my fingers! For example, yesterday I ate a piece of chocolate cake with my fingers. It was great fun. ^_^ Spaghetti sounds rather difficult to eat with your fingers, though...

I never heard you have to hold forks in your left hand.

There's a difference between the way Europe and North America is taught use utensils.

i am knack handed (apprently the name fo someone who holds cutlury backwards). I took ages to get use to cutlury. but when i did... well i hated it. and i still can't do it quite right. i often end up chasing stuff around my plate.

jammie

I prefer to bite into and tear chunks out of my dead cow.

I never really learned any formal, correct way to hold eating utensils. I am left handed and hold them however feels right to me. My mom always got on to me about eating so sloppily as a kid, but she had a difficult time getting me not to because I just never saw the point. I usually eat more carefully in public, though.

I have no problems with a fork unless I don't think it's clean enough, but knives are a different story. I don't know why I can never cut meat correctly so I usually just get an appetizer. Or like another poster said, I eat it like a lollipop. It annoys my mother a lot when I do that.

I find some cutlery uncomfortable to hold, as I can't stand cutlery that isn't rounded as the edges are really horrible. Also, I can't stand the taste of metal, so I actually prefer using chopsticks to anything else. I don't really use my fingers for food that isn't normally used with hands though, as I hate getting any kind of mess on my hands.

I love eating with my fingers, Chicken legs, chips and ribs all get eaten with my fingers. The only cutlery I don't mind useing is a fork or spoon, so I also prefer to hold my sausage like a lolipop and bite off chunks of it. I also wrap things in my cold meat and eat it with my fingers. Forget the bread.

Ben never has got the hang of using a knife and fork properly and will tear his food and not cut it. He also holds his knife and fork strangely. None of my family like touching their food with their hands, even to the point of cutting meat of the bone, and using a fork with their cake.