Knife fork and spoon

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

We can agree that while some foods have been made finger-appropriate over the years, eating with your hands is basically a sick practice. Unless you go through some sort of surgeon-like pre-meal cleansing. And maybe even wear latex gloves after that.

I disagree! If it wasn't culturally unacceptable I'd eat most food with my fingers, and I don't think any implement copes as well with rice.

Food is prepared by people, eaten by people, digested by people. If my hands do the cooking they are certainly clean enough to do the eating. If someone else's hands do the cooking then why suddenly take against my own at the end of the process?

We evolved eating with our hands and I'm pretty sure our guts can cope with what we may perceive these days to be an insanitary act. I'm happy enough to eat a peck of dirt before I die.