Cutting bacon...with a fork?

[Cadiewampus]

This thread reminds me of the Seinfeld candy bar cutting episode

 

[wvjules]

I didn't notice what anyone else was doing so I may have been the lone finger-using bacon eater. It never occurred to me to use a knife and fork. I'm a heathen.

 

[loves to dive]

I'm southern and I can imagine the looks on my DH's family's faces if they saw someone eat their bacon with a knife and fork. I have to have mine almost burnt so no way would I eat it with a fork. Also, DH's family (both sides Mom and Dad) were pig farmers so pork is just about all they eat. I think you can have good manners and eat it with your fingers. Now won't eat fried chicken or ribs in public because I don't want to use my fingers (I don't eat fried chicken anyway since I rarely eat fried food other than bacon).

 

[kimblebee]

No one in my world eats bacon with their fingers. It would have earned the 'look' from my mom. Our bacon was never limp, it was crispy but not burnt to a crisp. Knife and fork all the way..

 

[CPanther95]

I didn't notice what anyone else was doing so I may have been the lone finger-using bacon eater. It never occurred to me to use a knife and fork. I'm a heathen.

You're no heathen. If bacon is made properly, it cannot be eaten with a fork.

 

[minnie mum]

You're no heathen. If bacon is made properly, it cannot be eaten with a fork.

I would disagree. It is quite possible to have American style bacon properly prepared (well done), but not so overcooked that it shatters at the touch of a knife or fork. While I eat toast with my fingers, I would only eat bacon with my fingers as a last resort. I don't judge another person for not using their fork, but I prefer not to get my fingers greasy if it can be so easily avoided. But then again, if I was served overcooked, dried out bacon, I'd send it back to the kitchen.

 

[SparklePixie]

At all the people who claim to be above eating bacon with their fingers.

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

At all the people who claim to be above eating bacon with their fingers.

I'm not above eating anything with my fingers if I'm being honest...

It just depends on who's watching

 

[susan1]

I might pick it up with my fingers at home, but in a restaurant or with other people, always with a knife and fork. If it is crispy, then it breaks, but you can scoop it up on your fork. But then, unless I am in a fast food joint, nothing is finger food in my world. Many thanks to my anal, previous French Nanny of a mother.

 

[susan1]

Probably has British Ancestory, wouldn't cream of eating any food with fingers or just a fork!

 

[TLSnell1981]

I do not like crisp (otherwise know as burnt) bacon and I do not use a fork.

 

[minnie mum]

At all the people who claim to be above eating bacon with their fingers.

Excuse me, but I did not say I was above eating it with my fingers. It is simple personal preference. And I did not claim to not use my fingers (which intimates that I am lying). Nor do I think that preferring to use a fork is snooty, as you seem to feel. I also did not feel the need to denigrate those who choose to use their fingers.

 

[anniemae]

the way i like bacon, it could not be eaten with a knife and fork. I like it crispy and crunchy. Just shy of being burned. I think limp undercooked bacon is gross. I feel like you can get parasites or something the way I see it barely cooked sometimes.

 

[RedAngie]

If the bacon is still oink-ing, I guess it's OK to eat it with a knife and fork. If it's properly prepared, nice and crispy, eating with your fingers is de rigueur.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Ugh! American bacon is dreadful, overcooked and inedible.
Always intriguing how quickly the Canadian or English bacon disappears on a cruise ship! After a while they ration the good stuff for those who quietly ask for it.
Back in the UK now for Christmas and New Year, really enjoying our limp bacon using a knife and fork!

ford family

Ha!!!!

 

[ronandannette]

Maybe its just what you are used to and not necessarily one better than the other. I could eat pounds of AMERICAN bacon. Never had English bacon so need to google that but Canadian bacon? Just no.

Canadian here...Canadian bacon is called backbacon; American bacon is called, well, bacon. And personally, I've never in my life served backbacon on it's own - it's for Eggs Benedict mostly. YMMV.

At all the people who claim to be above eating bacon with their fingers.

Not above it; I do it at home and when out with family and friends. But no way in he-double hockeysticks would I dig into anything with my hands while eating with a table of my company's executives.

 

[ashley0139]

Ugh! American bacon is dreadful, overcooked and inedible.
Always intriguing how quickly the Canadian or English bacon disappears on a cruise ship! After a while they ration the good stuff for those who quietly ask for it.
Back in the UK now for Christmas and New Year, really enjoying our limp bacon using a knife and fork!

ford family

Well, that was necessary.

 

[ariel71]

Had to do it -

 

[cijay]

If the bacon is still oink-ing, I guess it's OK to eat it with a knife and fork. If it's properly prepared, nice and crispy, eating with your fingers is de rigueur.

This is what I say. I like bacon every way but raw, basically. I like the strips, I like back bacon, Ayrshire bacon, Sir Francis Bacon...you name it but it really is all about how a person prefers it cooked.

I don't think I would eat bacon without something to go along with it though. My favourite ways are in a grilled cheese sandwich (which, I guess makes it a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich!) in which it needs to be a wee bit floppy or else you can break it up and sprinkle it on the cheese before grilling it. At breakfast, I'm most likely to take toast, flop some egg on there, throw some bacon on top and add another slide of toast. Again, a bit of flex is appreciated. I love the crispy stuff as finger food...and I WILL reach for the last piece. I'm not proud. I don't know what it is about bacon but I notice that the last piece sits there all lonely until rescued.

Cutting it with a fork as the subject line says though...I know a very large family and every one of them cuts their food with their fork. It looks funny to be sitting around the table, me with my knife and fork (this is just for food in general, not just bacon) and they're all motoring their fork back and forth to cut everything and scoop it onto the fork. It's almost an art form to be able to do that. However, with so many people doing that - the table shakes, it's like trying to eat during an earthquake.

When something is useless or unnecessary, I say "It's as useless as a knife at a (family name) wedding dinner."

 

[bcla]

Many people who love American bacon won't eat it from a buffet because it isn't crisp enough. I like Canadian bacon but it's like ham and not meant to be crispy. Imo, limp American bacon is disgusting and inedible.

Canadians call it "back bacon" and it's really from the pork loin.

That's funny, when I'm in the UK or Asia I never see real bacon - just uncooked strips of pork!

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