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Eating with your hands is awesome
Eating your hands is not awesome.
Eating other people’s hands though? You know when you crave hands?
You haven’t tasted /my/ hands…
I feel like it’s diff when it’s literally a dry part of the food item meant to be grabbed like that and most ppl would still use napkins and shit.
Or, you know, sandwiches
pizza, sandwich, burger, hot dog, corn dog, fries, rolls (and basically any bread-like thing), buffalo wings, chicken nuggets / tenders, fish sticks, most fruit, any veggies that can be eaten raw, most quick snacks, and so much more.
Corn dog does not belong on that list. You don’t eat the stick
jesus fucking christ fine. replace corn dog with: corn on the cob, tacos, burritos, nachos, tater tots, bbq ribs, breadsticks, calzones, mozzarella sticks, etc.
Sorry, I eat my tacos with a spork. Remove tacos from you list please.
I eat tots and calzones with a fork. As well as big wet burritos.

I AM NOT here to judge or shame you for what foods you don’t eat with your bare hands.

I ABSOLUTELY AM here to both judge and shame people who will not eat something with their hands “because it’s gross”, but discount all the things they do eat with their hands as “it doesn’t count”, while they are perfectly fine eating dozens of other foods with their hands.

i don’t care what you eat with a fork. i care what you eat with your bare hands while judging others for what they eat with their bare hands.

Hands are best utensil. The best foods are designed for the hands.

Wait you’re not supposed to eat the stick?

How else am I supposed to get my fiber?

I always remove the stick once I've eaten down to the stick. So for me, at least half the corn dog is always eaten with my hands.
I just push it down the Stick so I can always take a bite off the end and not throat the stick
I push it up the stick so it disguises the stick better, then I can eat it and get my fibre.
It depends on how dry the food is that is being touched… Except chicken wings now that you mention it.

Here’s a video of AI Will Smith eating spaghetti (partially) with his hands

arstechnica.com/…/yes-virginia-there-is-ai-joy-in…

AI-generated video of Will Smith eating spaghetti astounds with terrible beauty

Open source "text2video" ModelScope AI made the viral sensation possible.

Ars Technica
Do you have any syrup for that spaghetti?
any food is hand food if you wash your hands after.

any food is hand food if you wash your hands after.

And how about before?

That sounds like quiter talk

The dirt adds so much extra interesting bits to the texture of the food

I’ve literally never heard anybody in my life say this.
You haven’t met my greatest generation grandparents then
You might just need to consider yourself lucky, then, because I’ve met several people this bigoted and have absolutely heard some derivation of this in numerous ways.
My mother in law was almost crying with joy when I (a white guy) was eating her dinner with my hands for the first time. I was just confused at what the fuss was. Remember we all live in our bubbles.
I’m happy to hear that’s the case for you, unfortunately my relatives are pretty terrible and seem to look for any opportunity to be shitty
Usually the same kinds of people who insist it’s not a meal without boiled meat and any steak cooked under well done is raw.
Look for a local charity vid from southeast Asia. Local people who make these huge portions of food for the impoverished are usually scooping the rice and curry with their hands. Normal people will see this and say “hell yeah glad they’re supporting each other” while a racist would call it dirty and make a white savior bit out of it.

Ya but I also think it’s ok to react to foreign cultures in a variety of ways. There isn’t one way we have to be all the time. If someone is grossed out by something they’ve never seen before then they aren’t automatically a bigot or racist.

If someone scooped up my rice with their hands I’d not want the rice. We use utensils for serving things and I’m sure other cultures have a variety of opinions about that. I’m sure I’d get used to it if I moved somewhere where it was normal.

“Normal” people would consider the fact that peiple who can’t afford food sure as shit can’t afford healthcare, so maybe you shouldn’t be serving them with your bare hands. Food safety isn’t cultural or racial, it’s common sense and basic fucking decency. Get a fucking spoon.
i eat pizza with a fork and knife.
Yes officer this comment right here.
I eat fries with a fork.

Ok I feel this one is fine

How else am I supposed to dunk them in mayo?

With your fingers? Do you completely submerge them in mayo or something?
The only time it is acceptable to use a fork for fries is whith those super soggy ones that were immersed in ketchup/mayo. You use a fork to scoop those up and put them in the trash. Those are far worse than pineapple on pizza or fries with ketchup.
I’m getting British vibes from you.
It’s the formal way of doing it in Italy though?
You looked good in today’s mugshot, mr Trump
Fun fact: Italian “well mannered” people are expected to eat pizza with fork and knife, exactly because eating with hands is considered gross by “eating etiquette experts” (I have no idea how to call people judging other people own businesses)

Fun fact: no italian has ever ate pizza with a fork and knife. The only time when these 3 things should be togheter is when cutting the pizza (surprisingly, pizza cutters are fairly uncommon ).

If you see an “italian” eating pizza with a fork, they arent italian, they are sicilian

Italian here, eat with fork and knife

Why are people in others fucking business. Just let people eat with whatever they want. Its not affecting you in any fucking way.

With that being said, I think indians are eww for other reasons.

amazing. true open minded educated racism.

/s ←←← look!!!

I dont think it is racism to call up bad habits from countries. From my experience, the country of India has very bad habits in regards to hygene. I am talking about keeping streets clean and preparing street food with hygene. Other countries have bad habits too. For example americans are crazy about their guns and their education is underwhelming. It is not racist to call for those things imo.

I am a person of color myself, and Im pretty sure that my country of origin has also a lot of bad habits. I have had a couple of friends from India and their homes have not been the cleaniest, but I still loved to hang out with them.

You probably use your hand to wipe your ass as well. Civilized people use a bidet. Like the french or smth, I don’t know I never used one.
I’m french, never seen a bidet except in foreign hotels.
Indians use bidets (not all of them, but water is the common method)
Hand washing your ass with water is much cleaner than those who only use toilet paper and call it a day