So I am eating breakfast and reading a book at a local diner and I hear “Bacon is NOT finger food! Use a fork!” I was eating my bacon with my fingers. I look around thinking “Are you talking to me? Are youtalkin to me?”
She wasn’t, she was lecturing her morose-looking companion. “If you have to wipe your fingers afterwards, it is not finger food!”
I couldn’t help but think: “She’s a keeper buddy, hold on tight.”
Another mundane and pointless post brought to you by Khadaji.
The only type of bacon that could be properly picked up by a fork is floppy half-cooked fatty bacon. And that stuff is gross anyway.
Real bacon, the crispy-crunchy kind, crumbles into bacon bits when you try to get at it with a fork. It just begs you to take it up with your fingers… maybe dip it into maple syrup… mmmmm
And you don’t wipe your fingers after! You lick them!!
candy bars
popcorn
toast
nuts
donuts
bagels
muffins
crackers (with or without cheese, meats, fish, caviar, humus, etc.)
tacos
burritos
fruit of nearly any kind
I can’t really picture how the bacon is being served in this situation though. For me, bacon is nearly always served either in a sandwich or on a plate with the rest of the English Breakfast goodies. I can’t imagine a situation where you would actually need to use your hands.
In the US, bacon is most often served for breakfast as a separate item, commonly with fried eggs and/or pancakes, and is finger food. Bacon as an ingredient in another item (omelet, sandwich, etc.) also happens.
Perhaps in the UK bacon is a different type of food than in the US. In the US bacon is typically a long strip of pork meat and fat that is fried in it’s own fat until it becomes crunchy. It is damn near impossible to eat this with a fork as it tends to break into ever smaller pieces the more it is attacked with a utensil.
She may have lived through the Great Cheeto Rationing Crisis of aught-three, when anyone found with cheeto dust on their fingers was accused of violating the rationing procedures and shot on sight.