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Hard one. Indian food, African dishes, but generally, no I would not eat with my fingers. But for certain cultures this is a way of life, and I respect that. Oh, and I do feel, for some STRANGE reason, more "connected" to the food, and it taste better...odd...

for someone who is not used to eating with hands it will be odd. before the fork and the spoon came everybody ate with hands.
And if you must know when you eat with your hands you eat less, because you feel the food - it is not a foreign body getting inside your body. you eat with all your senses - touch (eating with hands ) smell (herbs, spices), visual (color ) etc etc.
if it is a soup you slurp it down.. one is supposed to enjoy food - not consider it foreign ( as if eating with a fork and a spoon)
the britishers came up with some kind of etiquette and every body seems to be following it.

And you should be washing your hands very well before you eat your food.

well...i can keep talking about it..

I love to eat with my hands! It is so much more satisfying... I don't do it all that often, though, because it's not socially acceptable.

Emily

ugh. i hate eating with my hands. I am really strange when it comes to clean hands and am one of those million napkin people. I have to wipe my hands after each time I touch food. I would be made fun of at a Salvadoran friend's home because I would eat pupusas (with loroco and salsa) with a fork and knife. I would eat pizza with a knife and fork if people didn't clown me about it.

I'm with BlackandWhite in that when you eat with your hands, your more connected to your food. It may sound strange but I think food just feels more satisfying when you eat it out of hand. Could be the fact that I come from a Filipino background and it's fairly common there.

I love eating with my hands. I eat less and enjoy the food more. Since we rarely eat out, I have many opportunities to do so!

Totally agree with BlackandWhite. As long as the process isn't too messy, I'll do it. I'm incredibly tactile, and for me, this is just an extension of eating by sight and smell, as most people do already. At home, I use tortillas to scoop up what I can't pick up with my fingers and wooden chopsticks (bad, I know, but I *so* prefer them over metal utensils), when a tortilla won't do.

I eat with my fingers at dinner parties and restaurants and find that most people will join in the fun.

My mother taught me that if utensils are present, then utensils should be used. So if I am at a restaurant with silverware, then I use it for everything but the dinner roll. But if I am at a picnic, then it's totally hands-on!

I love eating salad with my hands (fingers?). It makes my mother crazy, but I find forks just interferes with getting the right mixtures in each bite. I do like Aimi's mothers lesson though, and would never consider using my fingers for salad at a restaurant.

Um... am I the only one who's curious what the dish in the picture is? It looks like crab, but there's something else going on there too. Maybe I'm just hungry....