Stuck in Auckland

like noodles i eat with spoon and chop sticks.

Pulaski

Next you'll be telling me that eating ribs with a knife and fork is weird too!

Mercury39

and chicken wings? They fit in the "things that can be eaten in one's hands" in my book.

Pulaski

Are they a bread product?

Mrs P "doesn't like wings", so little Miss P is rarely, if ever, exposed to them.

Personally, I would eat wings with a knife and form if cutlery was available and I was sitting down.

caretaker

Did you have some sort of childhood trauma or something? Nuns with rulers or the like? Get you down to Bubba's or Bobbee-O's and get in there, Pulaski, look around and take a lesson from the locals on how to eat ribs. If you were in Louisiana how would you eat a pail of crawfish? It doesn't take a genius to figure out what you should eat with a knife and fork and what you can eat with your fingers, but one indicator is does it look stupid, and eating wings with a knife and fork, well, it will certainly stand out. The drumstick has far too convenient a handle to ignore as well.

Pulaski

Obviously if I was sitting at a camp table with family and friends, and with a pile of shrimp in the middle of the table on sheets of newspaper, I wouldn't break out the knife and fork!

I can strip ribs to clean and dry bones using a knife and fork, cleaner than if I held them in my fingers. But the most important reason is that I don't like getting my fingers greasy.

I sat at the bar in the Cheesecake Factory in Chicago in 1999 and ate a rack of ribs. The waitress behind the bar looked at me out if the corner of her I every time she walked past, and at the end, as she took my plate, with a pile of dry rib bones on it, said she had never seen anyone eat ribs with a knife and fork before.

steveq

Yep. I do the same.

dc koop

I used to eat fish and chips smothered in vinegar, wrapped in a page of the News of the World with my fingers. Was I behaving uncouthly ?

Signed: Extremely worried (formerly of Sheffield)

Stuck in Auckland

my wife can suck/lick a hole through an oddfellows (thick mint)

A bit uncouth but i live with it.

scot47

I suspect Pulaski may have learned this culinary skill at Eton or in the OTC.

dc koop

My golfing buddy says his girl friend could suck the chrome from a car bumper but he's not complaining

Pulaski

My upbringing was closer to that of DC Koop (post #83 above) than toffs in public schools. My father worked in a steel foundry, and he was more particular about cutlery usage than I am. He didn't really enjoy meals that didn't require use of a knife, such as pasta or rice dishes, and didn't eat corn on the cob at all. He was also a life-long stabber of peas, even after Debrett's said that shoveling was OK.

moneypenny20

My husband can't eat anything without a knife and fork and that includes chicken dumpling soup. What irritates me more (but I've stuck with him for 40 years so nothing major) is how he holds his knife. He holds it like a pen. It's so wrong I can't get my head around it.

carcajou

Oh my goodness. I know I am late to this conversation but having spent most of my growing-up years in the US, I eat like an American. There is nothing wrong with it.

When I was in the Middle East I had a South African have a go at me over it - the first time that had ever happened - and it really, really irritated me and I gave as good as I got in that encounter.

I would definitely not look kindly on it if a European offered to help me become "more polite" by correcting how I hold my utensils.

Keep your mouth shut about it. I am guessing you have no idea how much it is going to grate on your significant other if you bring this up.

SultanOfSwing

Oh, bollocks. You don't expect us to believe you're that much of a dick that you'd send your wife to whatever fresh hell that place is supposed to be just because she eats a bit differently to you.

Oh, man, don't you ever change

Well, that's a novel way to look at it

I only keep my knife in my right hand through force of habit but I think it's a small bit more efficient that switching hands too. That being said IDGAF if someone else wants to switch hands, unless they're trying to steal my food while they do it ...

They are breaded, so I think they qualify

How much of a pain in the arse would it be to eat wings with a knife and fork, holy shit

There's **** all meat on them anyway, but it's much easier to just get stuck in with your hands. You don't eat a chicken drumstick with a knife and fork, do you?