To think DH could just pick up a chicken drum stick and eat it.

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Honestly, is my DH the only one who messes about with a knife and fork and makes a toddler grade fuss about any meat with bones.

Why can't he just pick them up and eat them!

Just when I think there is no more weirdness to be revealed, MN comes up trumps again.

BohemianGirl that isn't very, er, bohemian to refuse to eat even a sandwich with your fingers! How do you eat a sandwich then? With a knife and fork?

How do you eat a sandwich without using your fingers then?

I'm imagining hoovering it up with your mouth straight from the plate.

That is weird.

Doesn't it depend what sort of meal it is? Roast chicken with gravy etc needs a knife & fork. BBQ chicken leg is a pick up and munch meal.

Are you married to my husband? He's a real fuss pot too!! No ribs when order Chinese!!

Food ate with fingers tastes twice as yummy!!

I can strip a chicken carcass, but can't eat drumsticks or wings. The very thought makes me . Something about sinews and bones near my teeth.

I don't eat ribs either, unless DH has them and strips the meat off for me.

Nice to know I'm not the only one

I love meat with bones, and lamb chops with that marrow bit Mmm.

How do you eat a sandwich without using your fingers?!!!

A knife & fork? To eat a chicken drumstick? Ive not done that, or even heard of it really. I dont cook greasy chicken, anyway...! but in any event if you dont want meat on your fingers its easy enough to just use a napkin or piece of kitchen roll wrapped around the bottom of it. Wouldnt it be really messy eating a drumstick with a knife & fork? Or wasteful, ie lots of meat left on the bone?

You hold it in a napkin?

That's just me isn't it?

Actually, they laugh at me at work because I won't eat cake unless it's on a plate and I'm using a fork .

BBQs and buffets are my idea of culinary hell; all those people touching food and shoving it in their gobs.

silently screaming

My DH uses a knife and fork to eat pizza!
I blame his mother! He also wipes sugar off
donuts and holds them with a tissue

What about crisps and sweets?

Dh is like this too, he refuses to eat ribs, eats chicken legs with knife and fork, fajitas are fun too - he can't stand mess...we all laugh at him while scoffing our meat

Yes dh eats pizza with a knife and fork, burgers too, it's embarrassing!

I'm guessing none of you bone/sinew/skin haters would eat a sausage then? Or a chicken nugget?

Because that's pretty much what they're made of.

Dh won't eat sugary donuts. He just about coped with Eritrean food, because the bread kept his fingers dry. Could blame his mother....she's lovely but she is the fussiest eat I have ever encountered! I don't want Dh's food issues to rub off on the kids...eating food with your hands is very natural and normal....it's not always the way to do it

I eat them, but I wouldn't eat them with my fingers either (unless it was a hot dog of course)

I just don't like getting my hands messy when eating, and when there is perfectly good cutlery available don't see the point!

Is this where I tell anyone that doesn't know that the "correct" way to eat asparagus is with the fingers?

One hand, I have no problems with sausages (or faggots or haggis, or liver). It's the feel of bone/sinew etc against my teeth that makes me gag, not the content

I wouldn't eat a chicken nugget, no. Sausages are OK though, tend to buy the higher meat content. It's more the feel of the bone and sinew against my teeth, as LtEveDallas says - but then cotton wool, peach skin, pear skin and various other things against my teeth also makes me gag

I was taught that it was OK to hold chicken drumsticks/wings with hands, but I don't like getting my fingers sticky, so these days always use knife and fork. It's perfectly easy, doesn't take any longer, and believe me I don't leave any meat behind.

In fact I use knife and fork even when eating Asian cooking that involves one or two inch cubes of chopped up chicken covered in sauce/curry, where you can't even tell if it's a piece of breast or contains bone/cartilage until your knife/tooth hits same. Again, have no difficulty cutting the meat off with a knife.

but then cotton wool, peach skin, pear skin and various other things against my teeth also makes me gag

Aha...so it's NOT just chicken then. Sirchenjin . I knew it!!! Look could you do me a hypnosis tape, I could really do with some of what you've got

But why are you eating cotton wool?

Oh bloody heel - cartilage [shudder] [vomit] [shudder] [retch]

hell, not hell obv.

Cotton wool - when the dentist puts these horrid cotton wool rolls in your mouth? I'm trying to think of other occasions when it's been in my mouth - I know it has, but I think I've blanked it.