How do you feel about eating with your hands?

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I love eating everything I can with my fingers, unless it's terribly messy. (and even then, sometimes I indulge ^_^) Do you?

(also, is this common?)

I generally don't like it. Because then my hands get oily/sticky, and I have to wash them afterwards, or I have to figure out some awkward way to like, get my hands clean, and usually I forget napkins and have to wipe my hands on like the bottom inside corner of my pants. Especially if it's Cheetos, or Doritos or something. Yeah.

I'll even eat rice or pasta forkless

I like useing my fingers because sometimes I get mad when the food doesnt get on the fork the right way. So I get mad and give up on the thought of a fork.

I like some finger foods that are accepted as unavoidably messy such as Wings or Ribs. Or pizza I suppose.

Oddly enough I don't like things like Cheetos or Doritos on my fingers. Maybe it's because Wings or Ribs always come with preparations like a pile of napkins for the inevitable mess. While Doritos are rarely accompanied with a napkin.

It's easier when I want to use the utensil to pick something else up and then the other thing with my hand/fingers.

I like utensils, I have a love/hate thing with knives so I'll just leave it at that, but I love eating finger friendly foods.

Taco, burrito, fajita.... I usually don't go for mixed up foods, but these 3 get the thumbs up from me. The ingredients are layered, I can live with that, the combination of flavours makes the whole better. It's a true finger food. Plus is one of the few dishes I can prepare with a modicum of aplomb.

Submarine sandwiches: I love them, not the bread though, just the filling and the sauce, close enough to finger food for me. Subway still refuses to sell me a sub without the bread, I'm considering complaining to Jerod about this. It's NOT a salad!

Bacon!! ! Fruit of the Gods. Finger Food! Hate cooking it because it covers my glasses in grease spatters...


Chicken strips and dip, all finger, all the time. I do not like chicken wings though, too messy and sticky... Yuck.

I eat pizza with a knife and fork, I also cover my pizza slices with jalapeno ranch dressing. It's odd I know, but it tastes good and I can't see the cheese. Pizza without the dressing on it looks like a gore movie to me. The dressing makes it tolerable and tasty.

I'm hungry now.


I nibble on dry roasted almonds all day long. I keep a stockpile of them in the pantry and a full bowl of them on my desk at all times. I'll pop four of them into my mouth, let them soak for a bit, then I will peel the skins off of every one of them (they upset my stomach) disposing the skins, then I will grind up each skinned almond into basically a paste with my teeth. Then I get the toothpick going, pick pick pick. Start over with four more almonds. It's a stim, keeps me from chewing on stuff from my desk, I've given myself a dose of TMJ from chewing on stuff for 36 years. Pop cans, bits of tin foil, pencils and pens, erasers, plastic wire insulators, cuticles and fingernails, etc, My fingernails and cuticles are better now.. When I was younger I thought getting a tongue piercing would keep me from chewing other objects, I just managed to ruin my teeth instead....

*EDIT*
I also really groove on party platters, you know with all the finger foods separated into little dishes, usually with some kind of dip in the middle (which I never use). Most people usually make a snack stack by layering a cracker, cheese, meat and a pickle and eating it in one go... I eat the same items, but I eat them individually.. One at a time. Sooo good.

With candies, I'll separate and match all the different colors, then I will eat each color from least favorite to most favorite. With cashews I'll eat all the broken bits first before eating the full and complete ones.

Heh, I'm weird. Never really thought about all this till I typed it out..

Certain foods like pizza and sandwiches require you to grab it with your hands. hen I was a kid I was introduced to my East Indian relatives. I was shocked to see them eat everything with their hands. No utensils whatsoever. Not only that, but the fact they sat eating on the floor was also a bit shocking. Obviously I got used to it, but since then I generally use chopsticks (I'm part Chinese).

Fast forward to today. I went into a Somali restaurant. Four men are sitting at a table eating from a huge pot of food. With their bare hands, they'd casually dip into the large pot, grab a handful of food, and eat it from their fingers. Kinda interesting to watch. At my job the Ethiopians eat the same way - no utensils. A few of them did admit that their children, the ones slowly becoming Americanized, have dropped their ancestor's ways and are using utensils. You see East Indians eating with their hands in East Indian restaurants a lot. I guess that's the culture.

Anyone ever heard of roti? It's the national food of Trinidad Tobago. It's kinda like a burrito. Here in America people use a knife and fork to eat it. Traditionally, though, it's eaten with bare hands. Oh, yes. Cultures are fascinating, aren't they?

I use my hands with food that is usually intended to be eaten by hand. I hate getting stuff on my hands, however, and most messy foods I use a fork for. Except buffalo wings. I tolerate the sauce because the reward is worth it.

It grosses me out unless its a finger food or something that's not messy. I'm very peculiar but such things and in kindergarten threw up when someone was eating spaghetti with his fingers.

Hmm, I can't really think of many foods where there is a real choice to make without being declared legally insane. Maybe I'm just not very adventurous.

I guess the obvious example is takeaway fish and chips. I don't mind eating it with my hands out of the newspaper, but if I can eat it with cutlery on a plate I'm even happier. Getting grease on my fingers is annoying unless I can wash it off soon afterwards.

On the other hand, when it comes to Indian food, I quite like to use my hands to mop up the curry with naan bread.

One of my brothers likes to eat microwaved pies with cutlery. I think he is defeating the entire point of pies, but whatever.
(NOTE: If this seems strange to you, you are probably American and don't know what a pie is. )

Plastic cup, plastic plate, metal fork with a plastic handle. No exceptions.

This thread reminded me of one of my favourite dumb things that fashionable white people do: they always eat sushi with chopsticks, even if they're just in a food court or something. What do you think the seaweed is for, genius?