As the title suggests, when did this happen? How?

In my humble opinion, chicken wings should be eaten with your hands. Almost, as savagely, as ribs. But when the hell did people start eating them with utensils? It just, seems wrong on so many levels.

  • @Letstakealook@lemm.ee
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    248 months ago

    My ex did this because she didn’t like getting her hands dirty. If we were at a food truck or something without utensils, she’d eat them with her hands without complaint, it was just her preference.

    • ME5SENGER_24OP
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      28 months ago

      My aunt, wife and I were at dinner. My aunt ordered ribs and ate them with a fork and knife. I judged her… Until 2 guys sat next to us and ate their chicken wings with a fork and knife. Now tonight was about 5th time I’ve seen it this month. I feel like I’m being Punk’d.

      Maybe i’m a thick skulled caveman but certain foods need to be eaten by hand.

          • Maeve
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            38 months ago

            I’m asking why certain foods must be eaten the way you prefer to eat them. It doesn’t affect you or me in any kind of way, like lgbtq relationships don’t affect my cishet relationship. Unless my partner is secretly gay or bi, but that’s on my partner for not being ethically non-monogamous, eg, not having my consent to a non-monog relationship, and a whole other topic.

        • ME5SENGER_24OP
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          08 months ago

          I’ve been seeing it at pubs primarily. Not talking about somewhere posh or expensive. Which is maybe why it stood out to me. I felt like I was in that episode of Seinfeld where George eats his Snickers with a fork and knife. Then I just started seeing it more and more and was like ok, what did I miss?

          • @rdyoung@lemmy.world
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            18 months ago

            That doesn’t answer the question. Where are you located on the planet? I’ve never seen it around here (NC USA) and I’ve never seen anyone talking about it online (before you) and I’ve never had anyone talk about it irl.

            • ME5SENGER_24OP
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              18 months ago

              New York City, so far in 3 different boroughs: Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan.

      • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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        18 months ago

        This reminds me of the controversy when the last NYC mayor ate pizza with a knife and fork. I’m surprised he survived that one

  • nocturne
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    68 months ago

    When did people become so obsessed with how other people eat?

  • @wjrii@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Were they boneless? I’ve done it with the overgrown nuggets that are boneless wings. It works well. They cut cleanly and they’re 1-4 bites of purely edible material. No sauce on your hands and efficient eatin’.

    Regular bone-in wings? That’s nuts. Holding them is the only way to get anything like the proper angle of attack. Mess is inevitable and accepted.

    • ME5SENGER_24OP
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      28 months ago

      Bone-in, nuts! I accept that when I eat them my face will be covered in sauce; too close to the eyes and i’m crying. But generally a sloppy mess and happier than a pig in shit as I’m doing it

  • Admiral Patrick
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    8 months ago

    I understand why they might, but I’ve never seen people eat chicken wings with a knife and fork. That sounds crazy to me, too.

    I have seen people eat them with both chopsticks, and also with tongs. Somehow even the latter seems less bizarre than knife/fork lol.

    • anon6789
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      38 months ago

      A guy I worked with ate them with our nitrile work gloves, and while that makes sense in a way, it just always looked wrong to me. Too medical or something.

  • @ninjaturtle@lemmy.today
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    38 months ago

    When we became fancy individuals. Pinkies up! 🎩

    Jk, never seen anyone eat them with a fork and knife. Seem like extra work but less messy, so thats a plus.

  • livus
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    38 months ago

    Idk, some people eat anything with a knife and fork. I’ve seen someone eat chips (fries) with a fork - and they were from a culture that only holds the fork in the left hand, so it was “hard mode”.

    • @EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee
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      28 months ago

      I do this. I’m British and my American acquaintances laugh at me for doing so, but why does the hand you hold the fork in make any difference? It’s not like there are left-handed and right-handed chips.

      • livus
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        18 months ago

        No, but chips are narrow and require some dexterity.

        Those right-handed people who grow up habitually switching their fork to their right hand never develop decent left-hand fork-handling skills.

        Why do you do it, out of interest? Do you just not like the feeling of chips in your hand, or is it a hygeine thing?

        • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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          38 months ago

          But if a culture always eats with the fork in the left hand, then they do not switch the fork to the right hand, because using the fork with the right hand is the opposite of using the fork with the left hand.

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            @intensely_human yeah I realize now that for them eating chips with a fork tines-down in your left hand is probably easy because they are used to it - they even balance peas on the backs of forks.

            Hmm I wonder if it gives them more dextrousity in their left hands in general.

        • @EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee
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          28 months ago

          I was taught that it’s rude to touch food with your hands. Most dishes that come with chips need the use of a knife and fork for the other items anyway, why put them down and grab one part of the food? Also, chips are supposed to be really hot.

          • livus
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            18 months ago

            That reasoning makes sense. We (kiwis) all use our fingers to eat battered fish, crabsticks, squid rings, battered sausage on a stick, etc etc but if you need a knife and fork for those anyway then putting it down for chips would be annoying.

            That explains why a couple of the UK people in my life want plates for their fish, too. They probably want to use a knife on it, and doing that on newsprint is not a good idea.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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    8 months ago

    As a person with a lot of touch-sense based triggers, I could see many people these days with similar ND traits simply finding the feel of touching either the chicken or the sauce upon it as far more than simply “icky” or unpleasant that they can mentally force themselves through.

    Personally, I hate having sticky sauces touching me. But I can power through it because ribs and chicken wings are so delicious. I just keep napkins (or better; wet wipes) nearby to get it off me immediately.

  • Maeve
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    28 months ago

    People eat however they want, usually how they were taught as children. I’ve seen pizza, spring rolls and bacon eaten with cutlery. It’s probably common in genteel society.

    • @otp@sh.itjust.works
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      I’m far from genteel society, but the only way I eat bacon is with cutlery unless it’s overdone or otherwise brittle. If I’m picking up my own bacon with my own hands, it’s part of my resignation and acceptance that I’ve overcooked it.

      • Maeve
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        18 months ago

        See? That’s the beauty of diversity! I like my bacon crispy (breaks at a touch), but not black, even in places. So while I can scoop it up with a fork to place on a sandwich, if it’s on a plate with eggs, it becomes finger food. Which is weird, on my part, because I used to prefer it softer and chewy. My tastes continue to evolve, apparently, and that’s fine. I try not to eat too much of it anyway because 1. pork is not the healthiest choice (and not a white meat, despite the lying marketing ads), 2. American standards are very low/cafos are garbage, 3. Nitrates/BHA etc