Spoon or fork for curry and rice

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Just curious to know if most people in UK would use a spoon or a fork to eat their curry and rice. I know traditional it would be eaten with a chapati/ roti and fingers( which is how I was brought up to eat it) but how would you eat it at home. We went to a Bengali restaurant last week, and the table was only laid with knife and fork, no spoon. My family use a fork, but at friend's house the other day they only offered us a spoon.

I use a fork, but a spoon for next-day leftovers as then they're in a smaller bowl.
DH and DS always use a spoon.

Spoon.

It's so much more enjoyable to eat sauced dishes with a spoon according to 4 out of 5 members of this household. You get a pleasing mouthful every time. The youngest (10 y/o) is the opposite and uses a fork for everything.

Saucy dishes includes all pasta except spaghetti and lasagne. All rice and cous cous dishes - curry, chili, jambalaya, etc. And many mashed potato dishes when served with stew/casserole.

Fingers.

Spoon

Northern Indian here and always a spoon. In fact my Grandmother could never use a knife and fork. Always spoons!

Wow rude.
Spoon is very common in large parts of the world.

@karmakameleon my DHs family are all from Sri Lanka and south India and they all eat with their hands, rice or roti or both. I did not think this was unusual in south Asian cultures from what I have seen when there.

Flat bread. But I'm a pretentious git.

In my experience, Indians would definitely eat roti and curry with hands. Rice and curry depends on preference, so some would use hands and some would use a spoon.

The one I’m confused about is the number of people saying that they would use bread to eat their curry and rice. Are they scooping their rice up with a piece of bread? I’ve never seen an Indian person do that so it seems strange to me.

Same 😂

Spoon of course! Can't get everything on otherwise or scrape plate clean.

Spork

How incredibly rude. I’m Pakistani and our whole family has always used a spoon for curry- that doesn’t make us ‘bloody animals’. A spoon is what everyone I know would use, so please try not to be so arrogantly disrespectful of other cultures.

Spoon.

Fork for Indian, spoon for Thai

I am genuinely so very sorry. I had absolutely no idea that this was rude, or disrespectful. Obviously a very small minded comment. I just have never met anyone who uses a spoon to eat, so I didn't expect it to be common in other cultures. Consider me educated. I have reported my awful comment.

Fork

Fork unless it's been made far too liquidy

Even my 3 year old eats it with a fork.

Spoon

I appreciate the apology and know no offence was intended- sorry for making you feel bad about it.

Spoon for me, same as with Chinese, depending on what it is.

Spoon! Thank goodness a few more people are saying this, I read the first page and wondered if I was the weirdo

Spoon

@Saschka - same. I was beginning to feel like some kind of stunted toddler, when I thought it was completely reasonable........