# Do you pick up your bacon with your fingers? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 29, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366 "2006-10-29T21:59:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366/1 "2006-10-29T21:59:58Z")
I was at a diner picking up some lunch, when I glanced over and saw a casually-dressed (yellow, shortsleeve shirt with a button-down collar, and jeans) man finishing his breakfast. He was eating his bacon with his fingers. I noticed it because I eat bacon with a fork. How about you? ---
**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366/2 "2006-10-29T22:04:46Z")
Fingers if: [ul] [li]my hands are clean, and[/li][li]the bacon isn’t too sloppy, and[/li][li]I feel like it.[/li][/ul] Otherwise, I use my toes. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366/3 "2006-10-29T22:05:54Z")
Fingers. Period. Fork feels forced. I am eating a comfortable breakfast and in pyjamas and drinking coffee, so yeah, I just pick the bacon up… But then, I eat asparagus spears with my fingers if I am in the mood, too… ---
**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366/4 "2006-10-29T22:07:17Z")
Yes, isn’t that how you’re supposed to eat it? One my friends still eats pizza with a fork. Buncha utensil wierdos… ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366/5 "2006-10-29T22:07:50Z")
No. Knife and fork only. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366/6 "2006-10-29T22:15:36Z")
Finger person here. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366/7 "2006-10-29T22:16:27Z")
Fingers only. I’ve never seen anyone eat bacon with a knife and fork. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366/8 "2006-10-29T22:21:12Z")
Knife and fork, unless it’s a bacon sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366/9 "2006-10-29T22:22:04Z")
Fingers. Because I’m neither uptight nor a weirdo. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366/10 "2006-10-29T22:23:26Z")
Fingers only. Then I’ll dip it in the maple syrup on my pancakes. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366/11 "2006-10-29T22:25:32Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Fingers only. Then I’ll dip it in the maple syrup on my pancakes. [/QUOTE] I’ll dredge my bacon in the syrup if I’m eating pancakes. Only I still do it with the fork. Maybe it’s some Naval Etiquette i picked up from dad. Officers were expected to eat even fried chicken with a knife and fork. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366/12 "2006-10-29T23:07:36Z")
At a restaurant, I’ll probably use a fork. Otherwise: fingers, dude. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366/13 "2006-10-29T23:20:29Z")
The roblem with using a fork is that crispy bacon, well, it doesn’t fork too well. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366/14 "2006-10-29T23:25:07Z")
Is this a consquence of the Great Bacon Divide between the USA and the other English-speaking peoples? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366/15 "2006-10-29T23:28:43Z")
I didn’t know anyone ate bacon _except_ with the fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366/16 "2006-10-29T23:31:44Z")
[QUOTE=smiling bandit] The roblem with using a fork is that crispy bacon, well, it doesn’t fork too well. [/QUOTE] Not at all. Just lift it from underneath. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366/17 "2006-10-29T23:40:36Z")
[It’s been done](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=343477) in a thread I started. And the OP can also expect to have people tell him it is impossible to do what he already does. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366/18 "2006-10-29T23:42:46Z")
Where it then teeters, then falls into your syrup, spotting your tie and costing you that promotion. This intensifies your financial woes, leading your wife to divorce you, your kids to become drug addicts and hookers, and generally bringing about Global Thermonuclear War, or the return of the Democrats to power, whichever you feel is worse. Just isn’t worth it, man. Use your fingers! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366/19 "2006-10-29T23:45:07Z")
[QUOTE=amarone] [It’s been done](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=343477) in a thread I started. And the OP can also expect to have people tell him it is impossible to do what he already does. [/QUOTE] Hey, I even posted to that one! Ah, well. Getting older, short term memory loss… To clarify my post in the other thread: I eat bacon with a fork. If I’m not eating, but doing something else (e.g., cooking the rest of breakfast) I’ll pick up a piece of bacon with my fingers from the paper towels they’re on. But if I’m eating, then it’s the fork. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366/20 "2006-10-29T23:47:14Z")
> [@](#): > > Do you pick up your bacon with your fingers? Not while it’s cooking in the frying pan. On the plate, yeah, of course. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-up-your-bacon-with-your-fingers/378366.md?page=2)