FINGERS WERE MADE BEFORE FORKS – an excuse for picking up food with your fingers at table.

Mother: Put that chicken wing back on your plate and eat it properly, with a knife and fork.

Child: But Mom, fingers were made before forks.

 

I don’t see why it’s considered bad manners to eat with your fingers. Fingers were made before forks.

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