The rules of etiquette dictate to us what kind of food we should eat with what cutlery. But some dishes are simply impossible to eat otherwise than with your hands. This is both convenient and correct – and there is nothing to hamper your manners!
Bread and cheese
Bread can be handled if the restaurant has special tongs. The only thing is that you should not bite the bread – you can pinch off pieces from your plate and put in your mouth. If it is served with pate, that is, you need it like a regular sandwich at home, making it as beautiful as possible. By the way, lettuce leaves can also be taken with your hands and sent directly into your mouth, rather than sawing the delicate structure of greenery with a knife.
The cheese is served either whole or cut into thin slices. You can take the pieces with a special fork or toothpick. But in the absence of both, it is quite permissible to take pieces of cheese from a common plate with a fork, and take it with your own hands or put it on bread.
Fish
No, no, the fish served is eaten with a fork, carefully separating the flesh from the bones. But as for getting random bones from the mouth, this is done with your hands. The bone is placed on a fork and only then on the edge of the plate. You should not spit beautifully or poke around in your mouth with a fork, trying to extract the bone.
Oysters, mussels and seafood
Oysters are served with special forks to separate the flesh from the shell. Then you should take the sink with your hands and drink, bringing it to your mouth. Mussels should also not be tormented with cutlery for a long time. The mussel is taken by hand, brought to the mouth, and with the other hand with an empty shell, like tweezers, we simply take out the pulp and send it into the mouth.
Crabs, lobsters, shrimps, lobsters and crayfish are eaten exclusively by hand. Be sure to tie a special apron around your neck so as not to splatter your clothes with seafood juice.
Meat, Poultry
Game – hazel grouse, quail, partridge – should also be eaten with the help of hands, gently taking a piece by the bone. The same goes for the wings and ribs. The rest of the meat is eaten with cutlery.
But the kebab, contrary to tradition, should be eaten either directly from the skewer, or put a piece on a plate and deal with it with a knife and fork. Cutlets, meatballs and other minced meat products are used exclusively with cutlery. Frog legs can be grasped by the bone with your hand and eaten without tools.