This morning I heard someone on tv mention eating chicken with a fork. I haven’t thought of this since I was a kid, when some people did. My F&F didn’t, but I knew some others who did.
I wonder if some still do, especially the drumstick and wings.
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mangeorge
I assume you mean fried chicken, as a chicken fillet is usually eaten with a fork, isn’t it?
I have had Europeans visit me here in the US and they will eat a hamburger with a knife and fork.
Somehow, eating a bucket of KFC with a knife and a fork seems to be an awkward venture at best.
I’m a breast man myself. 
I often use a fork to avoid burning my fingers. Chicken is best straight out of the frying pan.
Take out chicken usually isn’t very hot when you get home. no fork needed.
I definitely use a fork to help when I eat my parts of a roast chicken. I just hate having my fingers dirty - which is real fun considering I’m E. Indian and most of our foods are meant to be eaten by the hand. I like to eat everything with a fork, if possible, and if I can’t, I’ll use only one hand and attempt to never get my left hand dirty.
Yes, I assumed people would assume I was talking about fried chicken.
I like the breast okay, but I’m picky about how it’s prepared. Carefully deep-fried is best.
I rarely eat fried chicken. But roast chicken counts, does it not?
If it has a handle, it gets eaten by hand. Otherwise I use a fork and knife.
Why would you assume that? The only fried chicken I ever have is from KFC, about 3 or 4 times a year.
Sure. 
Does roast chicken include tandori chicken (Mmmm)?
That’s how I eat wings. I mean…they’re sauced all to Hell, and the smell will stay with you long past when you want to still smell it (like when I’m going to bed and then when I wake up in the morning…I’ve washed my hands like fifteen times, go away already!)
So if only one hand smells like cayenne and vinegar all the better. Plus it’s handy if I have to use my ‘clean’ hand for something, like answer my phone.
Or even just pick up your drink so you’re not getting grease all over your water bottle or whatever it is you’re drinking.
No particular reason. I just make assumptions willy-nilly.
In polite company or when eating out I will use a fork but at home or when I could care less about being polite it’s caveman time!
I spent most of the 00’s eating my bone in chicken with a fork and knife, though lately I seem to be backing off it a bit. Mainly it was because eating with the fingers is messy.
Other things I eat with knife and fork include pizza and fries, though fries is only if it’s from a “real” restaurant, not for fast food fries.
I’ll almost always use a knife & fork on the breast or thigh - they’re too awkward to bite into otherwise. But wings and drumsticks get picked up by hand.
When I was in high school, I was invited (along with several other school friends) to dinner at a friend’s house. His mother served barbecued chicken. I ate mine with a fork, because I had long, long fingernails at the time, and despised having things like barbecue sauce under them.
I was a laughinstock at the lunch table for some time after that. I’d have a sandwich for lunch, and my friends would ask “Are you sure you don’t need a fork with that??” etc.
I don’t keep my fingernails so long any more. But still, if I have chicken that is particularly greasy or saucy, I will eat it with knife and fork.
Pizza tastes better with a fork. I think because I can eat it hotter. Hotter is better.
I usually try to eat almost everything with a utensil of some sort as I hate getting my hands dirty. So I usually eat chicken with a knife and fork. The only exception is when I get KFC, which I don’t do often, because then I typically gorge on 8-10 pieces and that’d just take too damn long with knife and fork.
There was a commercial when I was a kid, I forget what it was for, but the lady said something like
Chicken with your fingers? OK at picnics but never at a formal dinner