To eat a burger with my hands?

[Happytobefree17]

In a gastro pub?

My friend is aghast that I didn't use cutlery. Thinks I'm some sort of Neanderthal for eating with my hands.

Who is right?

Well, I've had a burger today and your friend would no doubt love me. (Not.)
It was one of those stacked full burgers - bread bun, lettuce, huge slice of tomato, chunky beef burger, and a couple of onion rings on the top all kept in place with one of those flag things places tend to put in burgers to keep them together.
Totally too big to eat all in one bite so I had to disassemble (is that a word lol) it a little bit by taking the onion rings off the top, and the tomato out.
Then proceeded to pick it up with my hands and eat it like that.
Cutlery for a burger?! WTF, use your hands.

If you're being served a burger they know you are going to eat it with your hands as it's the preferred way

Silly argument. By that measure, if there is a wine glass provided you must have wine.....

No you don't but if you do you drink it out of the glass not the bottle

The cutlery is usually there before you order because it is generally required for everything except the burgers.

OP I think you need to choose your dining companion more wisely in future. They sound like a recipe for indigestion!

No-one appears to have mentioned the Seinfeld episode where one of the themes was eating a snickers with a

Sorry but I can't stand people eating with their hands in a restaurant or pub. I just don't like it. At all.
Have some manners and touch more class and use your cutlery.
Goodness me. No need for the ride comments..

The irony of saying there's no need for the rude comments only to tell people in the sentence before to 'have some class'.

I mean really. If you don't like watching people eat with their hands, don't fucking look at them then. Hardly rocket science.

Do any of you never-touch-food-with-your-hands-in-a-restaurant folks ever eat breakfast out? And if so do you use cutlery to eat toast?

It sounds so insufferably buttoned up to refuse to ever let one’s bare hands touch actual food!

If you're eating burgers and pizza with a knife and fork I think it's safe to say absolutely no-one looking at you will think it looks much better. They're probably thinking the exact opposite in fact

Totally agree.

Who the fuck eats a burger with a knife and fork? - now that's barbaric

I have a friend who can peel & eat an orange with cutlery - more for amusement than any aspiration of etiquette though!

Sorry but I can't stand people eating with their hands in a restaurant or pub Maybe you should stay at home to eat or maybe get some therapy for your issues.

It used to be that people would peel a peach and eat it with a knife. If you want class from about 100 years ago (my mum and dad did teach me how to do it 'properly' so I didn't shame them when eligible young men took me out to dinner). I can't really do it any more, far too clumsy, and prefer to just eat the bloody thing.

Sorry but I can't stand people eating with their hands in a restaurant or pub. I just don't like it. At all

Then don't stare at them while they are eating, problem solved.

It used to be that people would peel a peach and eat it with a knife. Didn't Terry Wogan suggest the only decent way to eat a mango was in the bath?

I can't stand getting food on my hands. The moment something with a smell or texture gets on my hands, it's all I can think about until I wash them - not a very relaxing restaurant experience. So I use a knife and fork and don't mind in the slightest if people think I'm pretentious.

I'm not sure if this is just a quirk or an autism thing. I've had food quirks since I was a child.

YANBU. Eating a burger with a knife and fork is laughable.

DailyMailReadersAreThick how do you manage to cook if getting food on your hands annoys you or is it only when you are eating? Dh can't stand getting his hands messy will eating but it's fine when he makes bread by hand but he couldn't care less if other people use their hands - the dcs do like to rib him for it, they find it funny!

Fook that. Eat it with your hands!

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