I eat almost everything with a fork and a knife in public or around other people. At my friend's birthday party, while everyone was having a cupcake eating contest and digging their face and noses into the frosting, I asked the birthday girl for some silverware and starting cutting away delicately at my share of cupcake. Everyone seemed so shocked or amazed...some laughed. Sometimes I do the same at home to save myself the mess. When I eat chips, I tear a bit of napkin and hold it with my thumb and index finger and THEN I take a chip. If the oil from the chip starts dirtying the napkin, I discard it and tear another piece of napkin until I'm done with my chips. I just can't stand the thought of directly touching my food even if my hands are clean if I know the FOOD will dirty my hands o.o

Anyone else have weird methods of eating? =O

Btw, the "ladylike" and "ocd" portion of the title are what people who have observed me SAID about me, not what I think my behavior is like =)

Wow. Lol you are epic. ;D <3

I just bite into my cupcake and eat my chips without using tissue or whatever. It kind of kills the environment if we use tissue like that but that's just my thought, ^^~ Everyone has their own ways of eating! Yours is very hygienic!

I like picking my M&Ms with chopsticks. If you think that's weird.. o_O LOL.

I also eat everything with a fork and a knife. Chopsticks and spoons are also part of the set. Yes, I use utensils, why else are they invented?
I use a napkins to hold stuff unless wrappers are supplied. I wipe the area clean before I leave.

I eat chips with chopsticks.
I eat fries with chopsticks.
I cut watermelons into pieces before putting it in my mouth. What, am I suppose to act barbaric and just pick it up and start chewing it? Disgusting.

Soup? Use the spoon, don't pick up the damn bowl.
Meats? Cut it plz, don't slob in front of me. The bones are ok, even I don't have the fine motor skills to clean up a bone with a fork and knife (people that can have my respect).

Ladylike? OCD? No. It is called being civilized. But that's only me; I cannot accept myself for behaving ill-mannered when eating.

Depends on the environment.

if i eat out then i have to use silverware. and only sometimes i use my fingers to eat, but it usually never happens.

I don't think it's ill manner to eat chips and other finger food with your hands..
Plus i don't think it's ladylike to eat like that.. i gives out a stuck up vibe. imagine yourself with your date and you're eating like that. truthfully they'll let it pass but in their minds it's something else.

I eat with my fingers for finger foods.. Steak and such I use knife and fork. I do eat with my spoon and chopstick. but yet I'm not a sloppy eater. After eating with my hands I wash them throughly and clean up after myself. I can say I no eating method but I always use napkins if need to hold curtain snacks.

that's definitely being ocd.

oh man i thought i was bad :|
i eat pizza, burgers etc. with knife and fork cause i HATE getting my hands dirty
but i dont go as far as getting a tissue to eat crisps/chips .... what your doing is bad for the enoviroment!!
if your so worried about your hands getting dirty get some hand sanitizer


personally i think thats a little ocd but i suppose if it makes you happy >_<

^^ seriously. lol

as for myself, i only use chopsticks to pick up hot cheetos but that's only because i eat a lot and that stains my fingers red.

Lol lovely replies.
Truthfully, I agree with HEYangieeGIRL, I can see how it does create a stuck up vibe but most people expect that as part of my character because I'm quite quiet and cool (as in unresponsive) as it is. My friend went as far as depriving me of food until I reached for it with my bare hands which wasn't horrible no, and I do occasionally carry hand sanitizers and wash my hands plenty (me->medical student in training). SeliT, yeah, it's sorta bad for the environment but I recycle like a maniac and use the least paper I can so it balances my habit plenty =) I conclude, personal preference. Well sorta. And yeah, I don't think eating in any way other than mine is ill-mannered at all, heck, I don't even know what the ORIGINAL proper table manners are, I just try not to make a mess for myself and around me o.o Keep posting, I wanna know eating habits that are out of the norm, not comments on mine =O Though they are very amusing to read lol

If you don't want to feel bad, then spend a little extra on good, durable, re-usable utensils that you carry around in a bag or purse. You can also buy gloves that you can wash.

Table manners? never heard of them.

haha, i see your point in eating like that, but maybe a little too far. xP

i just eat chips, cheetos and stuff like that with chopsticks. o-o;
'cause i don't want the grease to get on my computer keyboard. xD

...that kinda defeats the purpose of a CUPcake...

But of course the way I eat Xiao Long Baos are just as weird so whatever... I like to poke a hole, drain the soup, drink the soup, and then eat the meat, than the peel o.o.

Eating with your hand enhances the flavor of foods, therefore I eat with my hands sometimes.

I'm similar in the sense that I prefer eating my finger foods with utensils, and I take my burger apart and eat them layer by layer sometimes. I also tend to cut up pieces of food that that aren't bite-sized. It's less messy to me.

I can tell how it seems kind of stuck-up or overly lady-like to certain people (I've been called a princess for eating like that too) but hey, like you said, personal preferences. Friends probably get used to it soon enough, but it's too much of a hassle, it probably wouldn't hurt to break the routine and eat using your fingers sometimes.

Same here!! Every time i eat bao zi or dumplings or wantons, i like to poke holes in them so it wouldn't be so hot and then drink the soup and then eat the rest.
I like to cut up my watermelon into pieces before eating them too.
I hate using my fingers when eating meat like chicken leg or pork ribs etc but sometimes i just have to or else i can't get the meat off. XD
When i eat bread i actually like the end slices lol. I know many people who just throw those end slices away.
I always eat bread by eating the crust first and then tearing the rest apart with my hand.

I bet lots of people also do that...but that is pretty much it for me. XD

To OP: You are very hygienic, that is good.

uhmmm..
i touch my food. lol
as in i use my fingers when eating chips...
but i do use silverware if necessary..hehehe

i guess everyone has his/her own style~

I eat my chips with chopsticks.

Lol why thank you =)
And like I said, I'm a medical student in training and I'm around patients and hospital environments A LOT so even if I do wash my hands, I would prefer it if I didn't handle my food so directly.
And we're totally alike...I'm the same way with chicken wings AND in love with the end slices cause everyone hates them and won't fight me for it! =D

I can't stand eating chips with fingers. It's just so dirty. Especially when you're using the computer, like, what, are you going to dirty your keyboard?

And pizza.. I can not not not eat pizza with my hands. Slicing it into tiny pieces is more like it.

Or I can't eat a banana with my hands. Sometimes you get that stickyness when you peel the banana .. eugh.

wow i thought i was pretty bad, but you WIN!

I eat my chips with chopstick because i dont want the cheese powder to get on my fingers and potentially color them.

Yeah, those Cheeto puffs are really cheesy....

I'm the complete opposite from you.

Like if I eat ribs, I will use a fork in my right hand and my left hand to hold the bone.

I'm a hands on person ^^ but I dont think you're werid. I think it's kinda neat. I wouldn't have the patience though to hold napkin while eating chips.

Lol I can agree, it does take patience to replace that piece of napkin and try to grab a chip with a small piece of napkin in between your fingers
You don't think I'm weird! =O That makes me happy!

wow! you eat cupcakes with cutlery!? lol, i dont do that. thats cool though

lol. i try not to touch any food if they'll make my fingers dirty or if i didn't wash my hands.
most of the times, if a fork or spoon is available, i'd eat with them.
uh, if im at home, i tend to get lazy so i'll just put the toast on my plate and hold the plate up so i can eat my toast without touching it with my fingers. haha.
buh yeah, chocolate isnt meant to be eaten with forks. LOL.

Hahaha I do the same for Hot Cheetos b/c they'll stain my fingers >_>; My other random eating habits include eating a Ferrero Rocher candy one layer at a time. I will never just take a bite out of it. Also I only will eat yogurt with a plastic spoon because I dislike that metal taste that comes with silverware.

Haha thanks! I get the most out of the frosting that way =D



I used to do that with my toast too! =D But I wasn't so graceful and the toast finds its way to the floor o.o

man some of guys are hardcore, makes me feel dirty =[. Forks? What forks? Knives? We can use that to eat? Bring on the finger-licking good stuff!

OMG, I do that too!
And I hate eating chicken wings/anything greasy that involves me using my hands to eat. I always use forks or just don't bother. .

Yeah ocd it is. I have mild ocd as well. If it's a cup cake and it has a wrapper around it, I would hold onto the wrapper and eat it without ever touching the cupcake itself. If not, I go wash my hands before touching it then wash my hands again after I'm done with it before touching anything else.

I have perfect manners outside of my house, very lady like, according to family.
Although that changes when I'm at home though. Lol. Not like neat to slob.
I do eat with my fingers on some things, but I'll ALWAYS have a napkin to wipe my hands with. Fork and knife for meat... necessity.
I have this thing with my plate looking dirty... Like if there's sauce from something, I can't stand it if its slobbered all over the plate, so I avoid eating it messy... (if that makes sense). But some things are unavoidable.

I generally enjoy eating hand foods with cutlery. I can take my time and everything stays cleans. I can relate.

LOL. Well, nothing wrong with that... but personally I think you'd be a clean freak.
My bff used to do that when we were younger but she stopped now (think her laziness took over) haha

I eat chips and biscuits with my fingers but of course I'll wash with soap after (duh, it's oily :x).

me too. it's so much easier. i hate greasy chip flavouring coated fingers

Haha my mum would pay me if i could eat like that. I'm pretty anal about how i eat my food too, but sometimes food just tastes soooo much better eaten with hands. ie. pizza mmmm
It really weirds me out how sometimes people eat really messy stuff with their hands though >"< I know this girl and she eats rice and whole meals with her hands She said it's an art in her country....

i don't mind ..
i'm gonna wash my hands anyway

i prefer my meats without the bones, so i can cut them up with a knife. i hate just eating it off the bone. =\

Damn, that's epic ocd. It's true that chips are oily, but it really depends on the occasion.
I'd find it kinda rude and offensive if someone does that during an event or celebration.

chips with napkins...never heard that one before. that's strange. haha.
but, i usually eat food with knife and a fork when i'm at school. when
i'm home, i dig in like there's no tomorrow. haha.

your class is above the sky lmao.
i am a girl, but heck i don't care how i eat, except when i'm in occasions or in front of strangers.
that habit actually had taken its toll on me lol.
when i was in the 4th grade, my food slipped from my hand and landed right in front of this one kid.
upon that, i quickly run away from the scene XD

If I'm eating messy food like ribs or wings with lots of sauce, I make sure I get nothing on my face. and usually when friends barbeque, I'm the only one that has a clean face and like...2 fingers that are messy. lol

Lol I totally agree! It just seems gross to have stuff everywhere on the plate and continue eating off of it. Like if I eat my fries and ketchup with a cheese sandwich on the same plate, it would just be impossible to keep my sandwich there without freaking out about how the fry crumb slathered ketchup is on the same plate =O



Now that…is interesting lol. Unless it’s riceballs, I haven’t heard of rice being eaten by hands…it would burn my hand too badly (Wimp when it comes to pain-Me). The pizza with fork thing though, I still continue eating with a fork and knife with that since my teeth are still quite…unsettled from having my braces removed so chewing off it is not an option (Though I understand that feeling of just eating it is awesome!)



Woohoo! Thank you!

lol i love eating chips with my hands. especially when the powder gets on your finger and you can lick it off. thats the best part LOL (sounds gross but it tastes good x] )

I was thinking you are like this, not because of OCD, because you wanted to be like a ladylike from the anime, Vampire Knight. Just got me thinking to that XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

ANYWAYS!

I used to be like ladylike eating, I would use fork and knife when eating pizza like I didn't like it all over my hands when eating the pizza. Or when eating hot dogs, I used to use fork and knife too. Also ice cream too............ just kidding LOL

@c0lap1nada's post so extreme of what you just said o_o bananas and chips @_@;; they are meant to eat it with hands though do you mean like you have to eat it for someone to cut it for you and just eat it with fork right? And for chips, how are you going to eat that if you are not going to eat it with your fingers???????? o__o YOU'RE GONA USE SPOON OR CHOPSTICKS FOR THAT/!?!?!?! O_O

Anyways so yeah I used to be ladylike in a lot of things, but now I eat like a messy girl It's fun that way!! Relieves the stress ALL OUT!!!!!!!!

i like to drink soup with a non-silverware spoon. in fact, i like to eat my food without silverware in general because it leaves a weird metallic taste in my mouth.

I am an unbelievably messy eater, you would hate me.
As long as eating with my hands will make the food go down faster or allow me to eat more, I will do it, and I will wash later, LOL.
The only time I settle for a fork and a knife is when I'm at Cactus Club or something, I wish I could ask for chopsticks all the time.

I remembered when I had braces, everything tasted like metal o.o



Lol chopsticks ftw!
Ppl tell me I hold them unproperly but I don't care as long as I can grab stuff o.o
And I wouldn't hate you lol

my dad eats grapes with chopsticks so the water (from washing them) won't get on his hands :s

my friend asked me for a knife and fork for pizza once (which I don't find strange, because I used to do that when I was little)


but yeah I know the feeling that you want the pieces little, because I rip my sandwiches, hamburgers, pizza, etc. into miniscule pieces so I don't get the oils or sauce on the sides of my mouth (how embarrassing if you don't notice D:), but I don't really care about my hands, I just wash them afterwards