Do you eat your roasted chicken using any tools or by using your hands only?
By pierone
@pierone (1894)
Italy
March 12, 2010 5:01am CST
I guess the most important when we have our meals is eat the food eat the food in a comfortable way.
Lot of times when I'm in a lunch or a dinner with some "official guests", I've the problem of how to eat the roasted chicken. Is really uncomfortable eat it with knife and fork, and also with chopstick is not the max. I really feel comfortable eating chicken with hands only, but seems is not considered so "polite.
So I'm really curious of in wich way people prefer eat the roasted chicken.
Is it by using knife and fork or simply using hands only?
And do you guess is polite eat the roasted chicken using hands only, if you have some "official guests" at your table?
I'll really appreciate your point of view about this.
Have a nice time!
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32 responses
@arreolabryan (856)
• Philippines
12 Mar 10
It depends where am I. If I am in a place where I can get sloppy I love to eat it with my hands. But if I need to be civilized and act properly I know how to use my spoon and fork.
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@nunoasl (166)
• Portugal
13 Mar 10
i try to use always the tools but depends. i am a polite person.
@pierone (1894)
• Italy
13 Mar 10
To be frank, in Italy we says, also the Queen eat the chicken with hands ;) Should she supposed to be enough polite? :)
But yes, of course, if we are eating with guest, and we want be polite, we must use the tools. Wishing our polite guest starts to use the hands, giving us the freedom to better appreciate our meal ;)
@faridmadeabillion (1127)
• Bangladesh
11 Apr 10
Hey friend,
As a lover of nature, I use my own hands while eating. Sometimes I tried to use fork and knife but couldn't help any better.
Have a nice eating.
@cerebellum (3863)
• United States
13 Mar 10
If I am alone I use my fingers. Sometimes I do with friends also. It depends on who I am eating with and where we are. I have a friend from Puerto Rico and she eats almost everything with her fingers, she also likes the bones. She says that's how they do it there. I hate to eat it with a fork, you can't get all the meat off. If I eat it with a fork, when I am done sometimes I will use my fingers to get the rest of the meat off the bone.
@cowboyofhell (3063)
• Philippines
13 Mar 10
sure I would use knife and fork when eating in public. but if im only alone either I use my hand or still prefer to eat as though there are people around. I should be respectful for the ghosts. I do not want to be haunted when I sleep.
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@umit_umit (1984)
• India
13 Mar 10
I eat sometimes with my hand and sometimes by folk!depends upon the mood!
@dpk262006 (58678)
• Delhi, India
12 Mar 10
Hello pie!
I have not tried to eat roasted chicken with knife etc. I just feel like eating it with my hands and I like this way. I can take the bite, as per my choice, if am eating it with my hands. I do not bother, what others are going to think about me, while am finishing the chicken........lol!
@coffeegurl (1467)
• United States
13 Mar 10
I prefer using a good knife and a fork. I like the crispy sound it makes when I slice the chicken. Also, I usually share a roast chicken with my bf and it's easier to divide it with a knife. Plus, I hate getting my hands dirty.
@kquiming (2997)
• Philippines
13 Mar 10
You know the feeling when you're really hungry and craving for lots of roast chicken but you have to be polite and all that? I hate that feeling..LoL. I enjoy my chicken using my clean hands alone, I can get by with a knife and a fork but there isn't much fun with that. The best way for me is still eating with my fingers. I guess if I really have to be polite in front of "official guests" and VIP's I'd rather not order chicken, or lobsters, or anything that's difficult to eat.
@shello (964)
• United Arab Emirates
13 Mar 10
If I were to eat a roasted chicken with some official guest in the table, of course I would eat it with the tools for the sake of being polite. But if I'm going to eat it in front my friends or relatives then I will love to have it done with my bare hands. I think the roasted chicken will be more delicious and awesome when done in a very comfortable way.
@mjcookie (2271)
• Philippines
12 Mar 10
Hello. 
I think it depends on where I am. For example, if it is dinner or lunch in some fine restaurant, I definitely will use the knife and fork, even though I am not used to eating it that way. I so love using my hands to eat chicken! If it is in some place where I am comfy, say my own home or a friend's home where nobody is watching, I would feel free to use my mighty hands.
I think it depends on where I am. For example, if it is dinner or lunch in some fine restaurant, I definitely will use the knife and fork, even though I am not used to eating it that way. I so love using my hands to eat chicken! If it is in some place where I am comfy, say my own home or a friend's home where nobody is watching, I would feel free to use my mighty hands.@pierone (1894)
• Italy
12 Mar 10
Well, some fine restaurants, expecially french ones, give you a small cup with some water and a lemon slice, the purpose of wich is to wash your finger after eated the roasted chicken, as well as some other food that usually requires your fingers help to be eated. This is what I really love of these "class one" restaurants; the implicit authorization to use fingers! ;)
@mjcookie (2271)
• Philippines
12 Mar 10
Oh really? I have never heard of that kind of restaurant. But that is really cool! Well, sometimes I still find myself eating with my hands even in a fine restaurant, but it's not like I am messing my face and all that. Haha. Sometimes you just really have to use hands to eat all that is in there. 
Sometimes you just really have to use hands to eat all that is in there. 
@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
13 Mar 10
i use spoon and fork when im eating with guests. but if those guests are like me where we call here as cowboy or so to say that is open to all that could ease things up then i'll eat it using my hands only.
if it's a family dinner or lunch with friends then i always use my hands only.
@binagupta (627)
• India
12 Mar 10
Hello dear, it depend on the place where i am if i am at home i like to eat with my hands but if i am at party or some where else i like to use me tools
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@pierone (1894)
• Italy
12 Mar 10
Yes, infact it depends primary on where are you eating, and also on who's your company.
Anyway I still guess that for certain kind of foods like chicken, should be MANDATORY use the hands.
Roasted chicken have another taste when you can freely eat it with hands ;)
@mohondang (46)
• India
13 Mar 10
ya....v want to b comfortable when we eat..but i should say it depends on the place n people or the occasion....sometymz v need care others feelings....
@pierone (1894)
• Italy
13 Mar 10
Sorry friend, I'm just curious, do you have some problem on your keyboard, or you just forgot how to write something understable because you overused the txt function of mobile phones? Here you don't have any limitation on characters you can type, so you can freely write in human language. Thanks a lot ;)
@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
12 Mar 10
That depends on the company you're eating with. In school we had to learn all this stuff about manners and proper table setting. My teacher explained to us once that if we go to a very expensive place to eat that you would be expected to eat everything you usually eat with your hands like frech fries or chicken with knife and fork so I have to assume its mostly people of rich society that expect this. I hate how chicken makes my hands so greasy but its much easier to eat it with hands. Its just not easy to cut like a steak is because the bones always getting in the way and you have to kind of pick through to find the edible parts becuase some meat has gristle and what not on it.
@pierone (1894)
• Italy
12 Mar 10
Yes, probably in a restaurant that prepare the table like in the picture I've attached here, they expect you don't eat with the hands.
The good is that usually, in that kind of restaurant nobody order roasted chicken or french fries.
Anyway is a question of culture. In China, where they use the chopsticks for quite anything, if they serve something that can't be handled with the chopsticks they give you a plastic glove to handle it with hands.
So you could eat the chicken with your hands without make them greasy ;)
@MrKennedy (1978)
•
12 Mar 10
It really depends on where I am and how messy the chicken is. If I'm alone then yes, I will eat with my hands. Or if I am with friends and there are no knives or forks available, then I will go for it. But if I am having a formal meal or in front of people I don't really know, I will be polite and eat with cutlery
@MagicalBubbles (5103)
• Canada
12 Mar 10
Im a bit anal about getting my hands dirty so I eat it with a fork and knife. I dont care how others eat their chicken....official or not!
I enjoy a meal with others for their company and not how they eat their foods. Its nice to be surrounded while sharing a meal.
So, if you were my guest, Id tell you to feel at ease and eat your chicken with your fingers..... "finger licking good"!!
@myzire72 (1154)
• Singapore
12 Mar 10
In my humble opinion, I think the best tool for eating roasted chicken is nothing but our bare hands. Who ever seen people eating fried chicken in KFC with knife and fork? I've never. Colonel Sanders' fried chicken are meant to be eaten by hand, that's why the slogan - finger lickin' good. I have no qualms about using my hands to eat fried chicken in public places like restaurants, as long as I don't overdo it. If there are VIPs at my table, I will probably tell the guests that my hands are the best cutlery for fried or roasted chicken and that they have to excuse me.
@pierone (1894)
• Italy
12 Mar 10
Oh, I guess when we are talking about "restaurant" we referr to true restaurants. The ones where you sit on a table, with true dishes, a waitres that come to ask you what you wanna eat and so on.
KFC, as well as McDonald and the other in the same kind are not restaurants. They claim to call themselves restaurants, but they are just fast food sellers, just a bit over the hot dog kart. ;)
@phoenix8606 (4942)
•
12 Mar 10
hell0 Piero! well, it really depends on that where I am, but in the most cases I only use my hands. it is more comfortable, faster and delicious :) at least for me.
well, if i am at some restaurant I will probably use some furniture, but when i eat some roasted chicken at the university's canteen I never use the fork or knife to help myself!
@pierone (1894)
• Italy
13 Mar 10
I'm really curious to see someone eating roasted chicken with spoon. I really can't figure how to do, but I suppose is really much more difficult than do the same with chopsticks, and I can assure that is virtually impossible eat the chicken with chopsticks if you haven't years and years of training ;)
