Is it ever appropriate to lick your fingers in public?

[Doctor Amadeus]

Is it ever appropriate to lick your fingers in public?

[Sorensen]

Not for fried chicken but def for Cheetos.

[callipygoustp]

I would lose my mind if I couldn't lick my fingers in public.

[Queen of Hamsters]

I don't lick my fingers, period.

[Kathandira]

Is it ever appropriate to lick your fingers in public?

If I am eating wings, or ribs, you best believe I am licking sauce off my fingers. I ain't wasting any of that flavor!

[Cerilis]

Even if it was, which I don't know, it's not anymore now. Thanks Corona.

[tylenol]

Use a napkin you heathen

[PC2]

Is it ever appropriate to lick your fingers in public?

Not really, it's a little off-putting but it's also not a big deal and I don't like being judgemental. There's certainly some cases where it's easier than wasting a napkin. /shrug

[Dezerte]

Too many contacts with surfaces touched by who knows and how many etc, and especially now in Covid-times... no. But that's more of a hygiene reason, not a case of it being rude or not. I don't think I'd care if someone licked their fingers in public other than see it as a bit unhygienic.

[Katchii]

Appropriate? Not really. But it's something people do when eating and they don't want to use a napkin to wipe something off their fingers every 5 seconds, like with fried chicken, BBQ ribs or cheetos, or something.

[Fencers]

No. What the fuck. Who is out there licking their fingers and plates in public? You plague spreading motherfuckers.

[Doctor Amadeus]

No. What the fuck. Who is out there licking their fingers and plates in public? You plague spreading motherfuckers.

Fingers really! So you never eaten cheetos or popcorn, what ribs?

As for the plague you wash your hands before you eat correct?

Shouldn't be an issue unless it's a communal meal.

You better stay away from any Indian food and African cuisines, some finger food is par for the course.

[Puupi]

I don't lick my fingers even in private.

[RCA]

Is it ever appropriate to lick your fingers in public?

People really have finger caps to stop the staining of food on their fingers? Never see that before.

Also I wonder if the people who said no, also don't suck their paper cut finger wound due to them thinking that too on the same level of grossness or even worse. Find I do that more thank lick my fingers for lost sauce.

Public nope, at home sure who cares.

[downnola]

Yes, and make eye contact with people while doing so.

[Doctor Amadeus]

This. I've always found it disgusting, even before the current pandemic came along.

Nails on a chalk board bad or sipping a cup of empty ice annoying?

[Nastard]

If you're eating food without utensils then sure, why not? Everyone saying it's not hygienic is kind of missing the point. If your hands are so dirty that licking your fingers could get you sick, hey guess what? Those same grubby hands are smearing disease all over that hamburger bun and fries you're holding so it doesn't matter. Wash your hands before eating. Wash them after. If anyone gives you weird looks while you're licking bbq sauce off your fingers, turn towards them, make eye contact, and creepily and slowly lick it off. Either they won't pay anymore attention to you or you just made a new friend.

[Puupi]

If anyone gives you weird looks while you're licking bbq sauce off your fingers, turn towards them, make eye contact, and creepily and slowly lick it off. Either they won't pay anymore attention to you or you just made a new friend.

Now explain that to the officer while in the back of the police car.

"The kid started it!"

[Zuben]

Inadvisable even in normal times, but I haven't observed a particularly negative stigma to it.

[LilSaihah]

Assuming we're not talking about the current situation...

Seems fine. I mean you shouldn't be licking your fingers at a real high class function but you aren't eating fried chicken or cheetos at a function either.