Gesundheit!
In Portugal, the locals had the odd habit of first wrapping a sandwich in a napkin, with just the end poking out, before eating. I used to enjoy grossing them out by just picking the thing up and gnawing on it.
My sister-in-law ate fried chicken with a knife and fork. My brother-in-law eats popcorn with a spoon. Hey, I don’t know…
When I eat ribs at home, I take a tip from Elvis, and just drape a bath towel over my front. I love BBQ ribs, and I know a little hole-in-the-wall place to get them, too. Family owned and operated. My husband usually makes a rib run every other week.
That may be, but I’ve been doing so for years now and I’m not dead yet.
BTW, Carroll County? I have family in Westminster and you’re only about an hour south of me if I go 34-94-US 15-97-140. You should come to the MAD Dopefests. 
I’ve had English bacon & American bacon. I found they were not very similar at all - English bacon has almost no fat at all, just a little around the edges. It’s almost like a very, very thinly sliced cured pork chop.
I loooooooove english bacon. Fortunately, there’s a British import store near where I live. I’m surprised no one is selling it as low-fat bacon. Canadians call this back bacon.
American bacon is usually nearly half fat. Most people cook it until it’s as crispy as a potato crisp. It’s about an inch wide & about 6-8 inches long. BTW, this comes from the stomach of the pig, thus “pork belly futures”.
Just another example on how some people go overboard with the forks. In the Harry Potter movies, Hermione eats mashed potatos with a fork. She also CUTS UP THE MASHED POTATOS AND CHEWS THEM. YOU DON’T CHEW OR CUT UP MASHED POTATOS. YOU SCOOP THEM UP AND SWALLOW THEM.
Good for you. I wouldn’t eat raw pork on a bet 
Yep. North Carroll, not too far from the Pa. line via Rt 30.
You accidentally had that spot on correct. There’s the trick – you have to smash them up (not using your hands, of course), and then suck them in through a straw.
Jeez.
Wonder what she’d have said if I just used my seven-foot prehensile penis?
Although that is what got me kicked out of McDonalds, that time…
“That sure as hell ain’t finger food!”
I did eat American bacon with a fork before a friend pointed out that it would be easier to use my fingers. The only bacon I was familiar with before coming to the USA (I grew up in Australia) was mostly meat, with a thin edge of fat and chewy rind. Bacon and cheap white bread makes for a marvellous sandwich. I like American bacon, but it isn’t anything remarkable on its own in a sandwich - it works better in BLTs.
** flamingbananas**, I don’t think that excessive fork usage is necessarily a British trait. Hermione’s parents are both dentists, and perhaps the director decided to play up their influence as a joke.
Don’t tell me you use that to cheat at cards, too.
I can tell you that, at least here in Washington, the health codes require that, in foodservice establishments, pork be cooked even hotter than beef. Beef needs to be 140 degrees F, and pork needs to be cooked to 150 degrees. Don’t try to order a medium-rare pork chop (yes, people have tried to order that way). Bacon can be ordered quite limp, though, because it’s so thin that it can reach 150 degrees very quickly without actually cooking a lot.
I’ll take my bacon crispy, thank you.
I’m with you, Phase42. Crispy, crispier, crispiest. Mmmmmm …
In the pilot episode of Enterprise there was a scene where T’Pol was eating breadsticks with a knife and fork. It seems Vulcans have an aversion to eating food with their fingers; IIRC there was also some comment made about the difficulty of cutting the breadstick making it an exercise in control and discipline.