i don't think that you have spoken about the fact that when you eat with your fingers you are also customizing the food to your taste. For example how much sambar and rice with a touch of pickle and a bit of vegetable do you need ...and everyone's proportions are different, how much meat and gravy with your roti etc. this is the most important aspect of eating with your fingers...this is very tough to do so with utensils.

@atari_hmb

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah one time a plastic fork broke when I bit down on the food and one time a metal fork nearly chipped my tooth.

@techmasterdan2247

2 жыл бұрын

@@atari_hmb well obviously you have some sort of mental Illness

@arpitsrivstva

Жыл бұрын

@sketchers 🤣

@AsterFoz

Жыл бұрын

What do you mean it's har to mix food with a spoon? This is the most ridiculous thind i've read today.

@rejyable

Жыл бұрын

@@AsterFoz I don't think you have eaten Indian food...so it's difficult for you to understand ...

Why not? Every country has its own culture and habits, and it must be proud of it. No one needs to be ashamed. The whole world should respect each others culture. Above all, even scientifically speaking, eating with hands has natural therapeutic healing effects.

@imperium4821

Жыл бұрын

Source: My dreams

@sO_RoNerY

Жыл бұрын

Naturally you’re supposed to eat with your hands. Silverware is man made.

@cpostclothesrack2012

10 ай бұрын

​​@@sO_RoNerYyea and i wanna be nude. Its natural too

@exelrode

5 ай бұрын

There is no scientific study that says this. I know its commonly accepted to make up facts out of thin air in India and believing whatever you see on whatsapp and facebook but the rest of the world doesn't buy into this fake news factory that India has become. But you don't need it to be scientifically better to eat with your hands, you can eat however u want, just don't lie about it

@diehardernxgt2161

5 ай бұрын

​@@imperium4821 clearly you never seen how americans eat fried chicken.

I am japanese but I used to eat my food with my hands when I was a kid. Like "Ohashi? Pft! Imma use ma hands!" (I am almost 30 but sometimes, I still use my hands to eat certain foods)

@carloscarvalhar9129

Жыл бұрын

Sushi and sashimi are eaten with hands, no?

@violakarl6900

Жыл бұрын

​@@carloscarvalhar9129 no

@DrowningInTea

9 ай бұрын

@@violakarl6900 Sushi is supposed to be eaten with hands, and using your hands is regarded as more polite and proper than chopsticks. Even today, if you are eating sushi with old people, it's better to eat sushi with hands.

@violakarl6900

9 ай бұрын

@@DrowningInTea oh, thank you for the information!

We lick our fingers after eating (only when we are at home…😂)its considered to be a bad manner if we do it in public gatherings..

@clandestino6438

Жыл бұрын

This may be region-specific. Can I ask what part of India you're frome?

@Nallavanaaya-unni

Жыл бұрын

@@clandestino6438 kerala

@debapriyasahoo9275

Жыл бұрын

Yes bro in odisha also it is considered as bad manner in public gathering

@hannahbee5725

Жыл бұрын

What is proper etiquette for cleaning the excess food from from your hands when you are eating in public?

@aswathik4709

11 ай бұрын

​@@hannahbee5725nothing. Just go and wash your hands. Better keep your hands clawed or closed so that no food drops during your walk to the wash basin

Thank you for showing India..as it is ...

Currently eating Indian food while watching this haha

Indian food is so delicious. But it's expensive here in the Philippines.

@leekshikapinnamneni4835

4 ай бұрын

I’m going to guess that you eat with your hand in the Philippines as well?

Food tastes better with hands and I’m not even Indian!

Thank you India. Greetings from France.

This is also common in the Philippines. But we clean our hands with soap prior and after.

@NS-uq9st

6 ай бұрын

Same in India

@MadhuPurusho

6 ай бұрын

yea all westerners think that we dont wash our hands.. like were also human.

@raskolnikov7034

5 ай бұрын

​@@MadhuPurusho They believe in wiping not washing....

@EggRoll0301

5 ай бұрын

I have faced the wrath of slippers once in my childhood when I didn't wash my hands with soap before eating 🤣

@munmunsarkar1726

5 ай бұрын

So you think Indians eat with dirty unwashed hands. My mother used to beat me or sometimes scold me for not washing hand before eating. Philipinos are Asian version of western dirty thought peoples. You people even adopted Spanish culture leaving your own culture to die. What a shame and now criticising Indians as if we are inferior. Don't forget you people even don't use water instead use toilet paper after pooing. You dirty people😂😂😂😂😂.

Thank you indian peoples for inventing such wonderful food

@idocare6538

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, I do love foods like Rogan Josh but it seems like most foods are buried in sauces and don't properly represent the naturally delicious animal and vegetable meat. Even watching this video, very few cooked things seem to be eaten without some sauce or spicey (not the same as being hot) flavoring.

@Tpb247

5 ай бұрын

The thing with Indian food is that there is too much variety. You want less spice, add less spice. You want less sauce you make it less saucy. I would suggest watch the video of the American chef who makes Indian food and he recently did a culinary tour of Mumbai (India) with the food anthropologist in this video. You would see many things you wouldn't associate with western depiction of Indian food. Education helps dispell odd beliefs

I don't think I could ever get used to this but props to you India! At least what seems to be like a lot of you peeps are not using loads of plastic utensils & plastic plates. Those leaf plates are kinda cool!

@rohitdesai2795

3 жыл бұрын

Usage of Plastic plates, cups, polythene bags are BANNED in India. Even for street food we use Leaf (its Banana Leaf actually) with a Steel plate. Leaf keeps food fresh.

@johndavidson3424

3 жыл бұрын

This Banana leaf's are rumoured to make our food tastier, it's more like a tradition too. Even northeastern Indian's do the same thing.

@pinklady7184

2 жыл бұрын

Pity, we don't have banana leaves here in Ireland. Over here, they are cut into small strips and served as plate decorations in ritzy restaurants that charge high prices for their dishes.

@malllxuz6889

2 жыл бұрын

this is an Asian/middle eastern and African thing to eat with hands. Indians are asian so it's culture.

@melbround1

Жыл бұрын

Don't use plastic then..da

2:39 No Indian will ever do that licking from Elbows to wrist.

@subharupaabiswas9980

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry to inform you but that's quite common in some cultures southern India and eastern India. As said it is often seen cultures considered as part of lower casts.

@arjunbhaduri1469

Жыл бұрын

My dads origin is West Bengal and I’ve been there multiple times but never heard of or seen that done iml 🤯

@thesagarmahapatra

Жыл бұрын

@@subharupaabiswas9980 Not in Eastern India. Please don't bring us into this. It is only relegated to South India, We don't use our Palms in the East of India either.

@carolinecharly-yw1cl

Жыл бұрын

Little kids do that though.

People from Bengal and other regions in India can pick quite fast, while eating each morsel, the finest bones from various freshwater (river) fish species, which are part of their regular diet, with just 3 fingers and the thumb of only one (right) hand.

@hey-sf4zs

Жыл бұрын

same in bangladesh (east bengal)

@aap9490

Жыл бұрын

Bangladesh too. We eat food with our right hand and use the fingers. And we can pick even the most stubborn and apparently invisible fish bone of the hilsha fish very easily which a lot of foreigners find very difficult.

@santanusk2853

Жыл бұрын

Most of the times I don't pick fish . I just put a small part of the fish in my mouth then seperate the bones there. Take out the bones like eating watermelon with seeds.

@jimv1983

10 ай бұрын

​@@santanusk2853I would just remove the bones before cooking so I don't have to deal with bones while eating.

@santanusk2853

10 ай бұрын

@@jimv1983 not possible for fish. If it is fish we're discussing here.

I was shown to eat Indian food with my hands. I’m Australian. I do use a soup spoon to scoop food on bread, but other than that it’s my right hand (fingers) all the way. I love this so much. ❤

Westerners eat with hands but mostly food that is not runny and won’t leave stain or grease at your hands ( burgers, hotdogs, breads, basically dry food) it just makes more sense to use spoons and forks for more runny foods. The same like Indians cannot imagine eating with cutlery the same others won’t eat without it. There is nothing wrong about, do what makes you comfortable and happy

@jimv1983

10 ай бұрын

Exactly. I can't eat wet food with my hands. It makes my hands feel gross. I'd have to wash my hands between each bite. Plus, those kinds of foods are often hot dishes. To be the right temperature to eat it would burn my fingers.

@Starlink502

6 ай бұрын

Lol 😂 are you alien

@aleenaprasannan2146

6 ай бұрын

If you notice, the items western people eat with their hands are things which are convenient on the go and eating with hands only became a thing there for convenience of quick lunches for people rushing to work or rushing to grab a bite during lunch and didn't have the time to wait for a table, sit down and have the food slowly with cutlery. So I don't really think it was based on texture, since they also have food with similar texture which they don't eat by hand...like pancakes. It's not greasy or runny either, but they don't use hands to eat them, because its probably the form of pancakes that were not convenient as one the go food and not so much any oiliness or grease.

@ATIMELINEOFAVIATION

5 ай бұрын

@@aleenaprasannan2146 pancakes have syrup tho

@EC-xc9gy

15 күн бұрын

Gravy-dipped sandwiches are a thing in the USA, though - like Italian beef in Chicago - and there are ribs and Sloppy Joes. I've never seen anyone in America use utensils for those.

The problem is that they clean their hands on the clothes😂😂😂

Once a Italian colleague asked me about eating with hand. I told him in european food different ingredients are mixed during cooking and you eat mostly single item final food as main course like pasta, rossetto etc. In Indian food different food items are cooked separately with different ingredients and Indian prepare each single bite to eat and in this single bite preparation different cooked food are mixed. The mixing needs to be done in a proper ratio otherwise it will not taste good. For example while eating rice separate food items will be boiled rice, lentils curry, dry vegetable bhujiya and one or more chutney. Most Indian will prepare before taking bite by mixing small portion of rice, few spoons of lentils currey, small portion vegetable bhujia or curry and pinch of chutney. Using fingers to mix compare to spoon and fork give perfection so we Indian eat with hand most of our food. Using fork and spoon do not give desired taste as mixing in desired proportion/ratio is difficult compare to hand. If Indian eat european food like pasta or ressoto they will prefer to use spoon or fork compare to hand.

2:39 no indian lick their elbows to wrists while eating. The speaker might cans from another planet.

@comeanddiscover3054

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly.. 😂😂

@shankymathur7542

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@starcraft2f2p77

Жыл бұрын

Little kids does but not adults. He just wanted to say such things happen.

@mr.perfect1067

4 ай бұрын

Yes😂

@Mscellany1

2 ай бұрын

Nope, i have seen adult Tamil Brahmin men do it... Part of their culture.

Super interesting!

So interesting. Very nice information

I’d fit in really well,, I always eat like this when I’m alone

We can get exact taste of food by eating by hand.expecially Indian foods.we can see also in this video the taste of love that when a mother feed food for children there will be happen the signature of love and care.

I know where my hands have been, I don't know where my spoon has been.

@Mscellany1

2 ай бұрын

Ha ha😂

Very educational ❤

I'm hungry after seeing this 😭

Interesting 1st time I'm seeing BBC is on Indian Food. Bcoz, it always broadcasted poor side of India.

@mr.perfect1067

4 ай бұрын

They already showed ..in india who like elbow durin gating 😂

I was eating Indian leftovers while watching this and realised I was eating with my left hand the entire time lol (I'm left handed)

@moktan289

Жыл бұрын

Well, you are eating with hand that is specifically used to clean your a****** 😂😂

@naughtypotato5243

Жыл бұрын

@@moktan289 that's ok u don't hv to judge

@jimv1983

10 ай бұрын

​@@moktan289I'm going to clean my a** with my dominant hand which is the same hand I eat with. Why does that even matter? I'm going to wash my hands with soap and hot water between cleaning my a** and eating anyways so no big deal.

@EggRoll0301

5 ай бұрын

​@@jimv1983It's a cultural thing. It's considered bad etiquette to eat with your hand that you use to clean bum. Also, eating with both your hands is considered bad etiquette. It's not that serious.

@jimv1983

5 ай бұрын

@@EggRoll0301 why is it bad etiquette if your hygiene is good? Doing things with your non-domonate hand is harder.

I am a westerner, but I could not agree more that eating with your hand just brings something extra to your food. It's like you connect with your food more and to me it taste better. Food and metal/plastic taste way different than from your hand.

@exelrode

5 ай бұрын

Cut the BS, you're an Indian. That's a pretty common tactic, claim i am a westerner than go on to praise india doesn't matter how nonsensical it is

@Tim_ra

3 ай бұрын

You aren't an American or British. Our parents yell at us not to eat with our hands from a very young age.

@exelrode

3 ай бұрын

@@Tim_ra he is probably an Indian pretending to be westerner so he can give some foreign validation that most indians so desperately seek

@chessdrama321

Ай бұрын

Apu hand typed this

It is easy just use your clean hand ❤️

Very nice video. I am eating food in my hands. I don't think about this facts. Thaks.

I love my india.. Its make me happy.. Bt every culture is good.. I respect everything's. Bt finger connections with food is helping to our healthy life ❤

You shouldn't eat with your left hand unless the its very hard to torn or split something with one hand. You can use your left hand to hold the glass or scratch if you feel itchy. The last thing you want is to rub your hand with spicy food to scratch your eye or skin, your cloths will also be ruined if you use your hand like that. Different foods are eaten different while using different parts of hand. Its how you learned to eat and dont mind eating. Most people in India just eat using one hand unless, the bread is too hard or you are eating 'jhal muri' or you are a child who's learning to eat with hand.

@idfwy_ylsabiafwy182_GiGi

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this information I'm a lefty and didn't know this 😀

@tenone7726

2 жыл бұрын

@@idfwy_ylsabiafwy182_GiGi epic bro😸

@austin0795

2 жыл бұрын

I don't use left hand while eating untill I want to tear apart some stuff like porota or something

@r.m.solympic3188

Жыл бұрын

You know some parts 9f india use their left hand for another reason.... a lot morr messier....

@AsterFoz

Жыл бұрын

what about left handed people?

Accurate one.

I absolutely think food that is traditionally eaten with fingers tastes much better when eaten with fingers. Similarly, food that is traditionally eaten with wooden chopsticks tastes better eaten with wooden chopsticks (it tastes different when eaten with metal chopsticks or fingers or knife/fork/spoon). Same goes for knives and forks, it's not that practical to eat a rare steak with your fingers and equally impractical to eat dosa with utensils.

Thanks for representing us northerners and not just painting all indians and all our cultures under the same brush 😑

@summydots

2 жыл бұрын

For the ones who can’t read the sarcasm though.

@KG-jl1xf

Ай бұрын

Lol

Yes, eating with your hands does enhance the tastiness of the dish, ex Sambar and Dosa, but Sambar and Vada has certainly eaten with a spoon.

Very easily one can see by the way we take food to mouth which class a person belongs. Eating with utensils or with hand eat with some etiquette.

I am not ashamed of eating food with my hands even in flight...

You can try it to, not only while eating indian food. We were eating food for a long time of our history and its weirdly way more appetizing when you eat it that way. We might have special mechanism in our brain so it produce more hunger hormones - ghrelin - when you eat using your hands because that is how we used to do it from prehistoric times.

Licking finger is not common in urban areas. It's a rare scenario now a days .

Tô aqui pela atividade complementar 👁💧👄💧👁

As a Left Handed person. I wouldn’t know what to do. 😂

@yashinrupani

11 ай бұрын

Don't worry lah! Rewrite the rules "for Left Handers ONLY!" I'll support you 100 % !

Food is related to culture.. you have a choice on what to eat...we can't force others to eat what you like There are people who don't get food.. the best way is to not waste food

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this is the most important aspect of eating with your fingers.

The children being fed reminds me of how as catholics we receive communion.

I know in England we have anglicized versions of Indian food but a typical order for our household is: Poppadom's with mango chutney and onion chutney = eaten with hands, breaking bits off and dipping into the chutneys. Lamb Samosas: eaten with a knife and fork, particularly if adding any sauce. Chicken Bhuna/Balti with Pilau Rice & a Naan Bread: I will eat the meat with a knife and fork. However, I dip the Naan bread in the curry with my hands and sometimes use it as a way to grab a piece of meat or some rice/curry but mostly I finish the curry/pilau rice mix with a knife and fork. This is how I would say most British people eat an Indian curry dish with starters and sides.

Good video

I also eat with my hands using tortillas 😊

@tab19390

5 ай бұрын

Its a whole different story. If you grab your dry tortilla with your hands, its not a big deal, but they are wringing the wet rice to mix it with curry. Which is unsafety and disgusting

Eating with your hand is for me ethical and also practical in some sense for example i try to eat using spoon and fork the usual with seafood like shrimp and crabs its a huge waste of meat after all that pretending to be ethical in the dinning table in some restuarant i realize f**ck it the hell everyone thinks, i eat with my hands with seafood more easier to peel the shrimps and more easier to get the meat from the crab and easy to separate the flesh of the fish from its tiny bones it gets messy but totally worth it, i eat rice with fried or dried type of foods with my hands i havnt tried using it with wet food.

@AsterFoz

Жыл бұрын

you eat meat and still think you're athical? xD It's killing, no matter how you deal with the corpse.

@typhoon2minerva

Жыл бұрын

@@AsterFoz yeah cause your culture is more ethical for not eating meat. I wonder what you think of the Japanese Thais, Mongolians the arabs the italians so is african tribes and many other culture...... Are you better than them and more cultured cause you dont eat meat? Why dont you preach many cultures around the world how to be ethical cause im sure im not the only one. Ohhh and i forgot some animals eat meat infact some of them eat them alive suffering in pain why do we have to exempt ourselves from eating meat??

@AsterFoz

Жыл бұрын

@@typhoon2minerva I don't know why do you think "my culture" don't eat meat. In my home country it's unusuall not to eat meat. No matter what the culture people come from - when they eat meat and don't have to (I mean - other kinds of food are available) it's unethical. Why? I wrote it in the comment before. If death is not enough for you I really would be afraid to meet you. How can I know, I will go back home alive? I bet you have access to google and you can check yourself all the reasons (spoiler: killing is not the only one) why veganism is better than eating meat.

@typhoon2minerva

Жыл бұрын

@@AsterFoz so if youre worried about death what about plants theyre living creatures harvesting them and consuming plants also is a death of life form how about start eating rock or sand

@typhoon2minerva

6 ай бұрын

​@@AsterFoz wow advance thingking?? Go to the third world country and tell them that were people eat what is available, talking about the previlege of having to choose your diet while others can only eat certain type of food due to scarcity and limited resources . yeah like i said start preaching that to animals who hunt other animals for food .

Better eat with ur hands then wash hands with water . I just dont like using tissue papers . Also i think eating food with hands makes it more tasty (of course its my personal preference)

So if you don't eat with your left hand because it's unclean what about if your ambidextrous or only have one arm for instance do they then have to use a fork?

@kingkoward9848

Жыл бұрын

Thats just old customs. Its not strictly followed everywhere. Most people I know who are lefties just use their left hand to eat.

@aswathik4709

11 ай бұрын

Then I guess they might use their right hand for other purposes (iykyk)

When I'm just at home normally, cooking and eating for myself or one or two others and sitting at the table, I find it immensely helpful to have a "clean hand" and an "eating hand" It's especially hard for kids to eat with one hand until they develop the skills necessary by age 7 or so, and it takes until age 9 to develop strength and dexterity to pour yourself a glass of water with 1 hand. often I use my left hand to do everything from pour water, serve food, and I can eat chapati/dosa all at the same time with no problem. It's part of the way things have been done for centuries, and the food practices surrounding food and the rituals and mantras you recite before food (nowadays I mostly do it only when traditionally dining on the floor with family), the whole brahmin culture around food, it's absolutrly necessary to tell kids over and over not to use their left hand at all when eating from the time they are a toddler, even though it's very hard for a 4 year old to tear a chapati with one hand and it takes a while, it is an essential skill to learn. I am a very cleanly person ("cleanly" by american standards, and a germaphobe by indian standards) and in my experience, eating with your hand very often the best way to eat many foods, but the culture around eating with your hands here in america (holding greasy burgers and hot dogs with 2 hands, touching other stuff, wiping with a napkin [which doesn't even do much anyway] and especially using your eating hands to touch other parts of your body) is is very unhygienic compared to the simple but not easy alternative of eating with one hand. The way I see it, the people who consider eating with hands gross or unclean are the same people who use both their hands to touch their phones while eating, and a whole myriad of other unhygienic practices that people who usually eat with silverware develop over time. Particularly when eating with hands at indian restaurants (and restaurants with finger food like fast food places) I make it a point to wash my hands in the bathroom before, I try to always keep my eating hand ABOVE my plate, and keep my other hand AWAY from my plate If you are someone who wants to learn how to eat with your hand, first develop the habit of keeping your eating hand (dominant hand) above your plate at all times and don't let it go near anything other than the food going into your mouth. Your other hand should never go near your plate, or touch anything dirty or oily. For me, who is the only one who cares this much about germs in my extended family (idk why, maybe cuz I grew up in America) it's just become a very normal and natural process for me.

@jacoabtweed789

Жыл бұрын

I am western and tried eating with one hand and some flat bread. I sat and tucked my left hand behind my back to stop myself from letting it interfere. The process of taking off bread and scooping it was really fun and I know that with practice, I will get use to eating with the correct bread and just my hands. My parents were saying things like it's... barbaric and gross but I found I was more connected to my eating, and it was very enjoyable!💜

@brendamiranda1040

Жыл бұрын

You completely changed my perspective about the subject. Thanks a lot. It really opened my mind.

Why I’m learning the proper etiquette of eating traditional Indian food I will never know It’s 2am I live in the UK

@aswathik4709

11 ай бұрын

Entertainment? Algorithm? Pass time? 😅

At the end of the day once the food is on my plate I can chose whether to use my fingers or cutlery. What is more concerning is the lack of washing hands before or after a meal in India.

@Mscellany1

2 ай бұрын

Whatever gave you that idea?? We do wash our hands before and after eating...

Random question from a non local. Has this custom changed with CoVid??

@saptarshibhattacharya9442

2 жыл бұрын

Nope. We still eat with our hands.

@aryanhassan4659

2 жыл бұрын

@@saptarshibhattacharya9442 and will always eat

@pradyumnadeshmukh1357

2 жыл бұрын

Just basic rule of Covid as Dr Faucci says, wash your hands for complete 20 seconds and stay happy, positive while eating :)

@Cherry_picked_tale30

2 жыл бұрын

We always practiced the custom of cleaning our hands thoroughly before eating. We still do that and covid brought no changes in our ancient traditions and rich culture. Thank you.

@gowtham890

2 жыл бұрын

For generations we are asked and used to wash hands before eat not WIPE. So this won't change just because a random flu was invented...

Nice video, thanks. Though I think it might be fun to eat ice cream with my hand, unless there is chocolate sauce because that would just be too messy even for me!

@kiranpatel6521

2 жыл бұрын

I don't get it. I just use a knife a fork. Yeah I dip nan and roti in the sauce but that's it. CBA to use my hands. Makes no difference to the taste either; load of nonsense when people say that!

@rainbowkitten8990

2 жыл бұрын

@@kiranpatel6521 I guess it is mainly just culture for them, but personally I couldn't use my hands.

@devikakrishna1486

2 жыл бұрын

@@rainbowkitten8990 i think the person you replied to is Indian judging from their name and no we indians don't eat ice cream with our hands.

@nemesiszz

Жыл бұрын

icecream is not indian food and therefore not eaten directly with hand

@vizzyb8400

3 ай бұрын

wow the assumption that it was as if mentioned people there drink water with their hands or something.

In the west we eat junk food with our fingers but healthy food with knife and fork.

India culture is really good especially the food.. but I can't help finding disgusting how people eat with hands there.. i just can't.

@Mscellany1

2 ай бұрын

Why is it disgusting?

I'm a lefty. I can't use my left hand?

@MAL1GNANT

Ай бұрын

No. In the East, the left is associated with waste because due to the majority of the world being right handed, they eat with that hand and wash after using the restroom using their left. Oh, and I'm a lefty. I wash with my left and learned to eat with my right after a mere month.

Eating with hand is best...

In Bengali dining etiquette, we never eat with both our hands. You use either your right hand or your left hand. Eating with your left hand is fine if you are left-handed. The hand which you are not using to eat food must be kept completely clean because you use it to hold utensils (like ladles, dishes, etc.) to serve the food to others and yourself. Touching the food on your plate with both hands is considered highly inappropriate (except for some special cases). Also, the palm is (almost) never used; you use only your fingers to eat. Wiping your plate clean with your fingers and licking your fingers are considered good etiquette since it appears to convey that you enjoyed the food (a gesture of appreciation for the host or the cook). In a multi-course meal, generally consisting of rice and different dishes, which is generally served by service à la russe, you should always eat each course separately, by mixing every dish with rice separately, and not by mixing all the dishes together with rice. Discarded bones of fish and meat should be neatly placed at one side of the plate. Wasting food is detested. The plate should be clean without any food wasted after the completion of the meal.

Well as a 29 year old mixed race American man (white+black) its interesting to find that when i eat indian food i prefer to use my hands it it feels and seems to taste better. And furthermore to find that i eat with 3 usually or 4 fingers and no palm. I dont't think that im superior to anyone but its interesting to think that if i ever visited Indian and was eating natural, one might be reminded of a higher cast hahaha.

Eating with the hand is the oldest way of eating. If I could just eat my food with my hand, all the time, I would happily do that.

Have been living with Canadians and when they saw me eating biryani with hand and licking my food they almost went to coma . I know they r judging me .

we eat like humans with hand

We debone fish with one hand.

As long as your hands are clean, why not? I've tried it myself, saw no problem. But using a fork keeps my hands clean throughout the process.

In the pass, Thai people also use hand to eat like Indian. But we had change after we knew spoon and fork.

@rainachoudhary6861

2 жыл бұрын

And you somewhere lost your authenticity

Wrap veggies in rice! GENIUS

Eating with the hands has a few disadvantages. One is that it is not pretty to watch -- all that slurping and licking. Second is that you cannot have long banquets where everyone is sitting around and chatting over 2 hours like in China or the west, because you cannot keep your hands messy with food that long. This is especially true in South India, I think, where the hands get messier.

@aswathik4709

11 ай бұрын

Yeah maybe true. But I remember my parents used to say no talk while having food. When eating fully concentrate on that. Although that's more of an advice. People do talk while having food.

@jimv1983

10 ай бұрын

​@@aswathik4709how much do you need to concentrate on eating?

@EggRoll0301

5 ай бұрын

​@@jimv1983I don't think it's about concentration. It's a cultural thing I guess. I was also taught not to speak while eating but my parents never mentioned concentration or anything.

When I see indian people eat rice with their hands I always think of the scene from kill bill where beatrice eats rice with her hands cuz she doesnt know how to use chopsticks, and the master throws her rice away and tells her humans should eat with tools and only dogs eat with their hands.

@aswathik4709

11 ай бұрын

Poor you, you have only this instance to think of

@sonjaholden2866

10 ай бұрын

Dogs have hands?

@Mscellany1

2 ай бұрын

Dogs eat with their hands???😂

It's all about individuals comfortability...there is noting so deep..You use spoon or hand.. Upto you... You cannot eat soup or ice cream with you hands and you cannot eat chapati with any spoon.... So it depends what food your eating and what your comfortable with...

@matias4145

2 жыл бұрын

Finally some real logic and no bakwaas

@naughtypotato5243

Жыл бұрын

This

@jayantasarkar6087

Жыл бұрын

@@matias4145 Thanks man

You are eating Indian food the wrong way when you follow some rules

When in Rome , do as romans do.

Disclaimer: *Most of the etiquette shown in this video, such as licking from the palm of the hand to the elbow, applies only to South India except eating with the fingers.*

@greninja9716

2 жыл бұрын

They are prevalent in north India too😐😪

@deadlysilent9986

2 жыл бұрын

@@greninja9716 nope we don't lick our elbows like that. 😑

@sharathpillai7367

2 жыл бұрын

Atleast we are pure Dravidians and not the mix like you. I mean everyone know what happened to your great great great grandmothers 👵

@sharathpillai7367

2 жыл бұрын

And we South Indians don't lick our elbows.

@austin0795

2 жыл бұрын

@@deadlysilent9986 I am from south and I don't Lick my elbow oh my..... Just hands when its full of mmasala

North Indians eat with spoon and fork. South Indians eat with hands.

@sharathpillai7367

2 жыл бұрын

That's because North Indians are not Indians. They're from Middle East.

@naughtypotato5243

Жыл бұрын

Lmao North Indians eat with their hand too Do u use knife and fork for Parathas?

@EggRoll0301

5 ай бұрын

Speak for yourself. I don't. No one in my family does. It's only when we do out, we use a spoon to eat rice, never at home

@Mscellany1

2 ай бұрын

What utter rot

Yeah the south indian thing is apt.

My mum uses hand

When you realise that you don't use your left hand because you haven't invented the bog roll.....

@zenastronomy

Жыл бұрын

when you realise that using a bog roll is filthier than using water, and that you are in fact the backwards culture.

I feel that this video may have exaggerated the portrayal of how South Indians eat. In North India, it's common to use more utensils during meals. However, it's important to note that many people in South India also use utensils. Even when eating with our hands, we typically maintain a level of cleanliness and etiquette. In my household, for example, I've been taught to keep my plate as neat as possible while eating. Licking one's arm for runny foods is generally seen as something only children do, and it's not considered appropriate for grown-ups, let alone in public settings.

south people use only right hand eating chapati or right but north guys use both hands and break the chapati to 4 parts

You'll never convince me that cutlery isn't an advantage over your hands. Like I get it but at the same time we evolve with tool use. You can keep your tradition I'll happily keep mine.

@prime5816

Жыл бұрын

Exactly… u can keep your tradition and we evolve with tool use is BS in my opinion…

@necrophagus9

Жыл бұрын

@@prime5816 We have been blessed with the ability to improve our world by developing new tech to improve our lives. It's not that I'm against India or her traditional ways I just won't believe the hype that hands are better than silverware or chopsticks etcetera. Go ahead and call it bullshit doesn't change reality.

@aswathik4709

11 ай бұрын

​@@necrophagus9everything with latest technology doesn't mean progress. Also people who use their hands are equally evolved as anyone else who uses cutlery. Well... That's if you know what evolution actually means!

@commenter4898

10 ай бұрын

We also evolved to use pesticide and antibiotics and social media and smart phone, and now we realize it's a huge mistake.

@necrophagus9

10 ай бұрын

@@commenter4898 false equivalence.

Roti yes, bread yes, flat bread yes, but rice I can't.

@manubhatt3

2 жыл бұрын

So sad, because that's the most enjoyable when eaten with hand.

@rainachoudhary6861

2 жыл бұрын

Ya it's a personal choice

@a.c528

Жыл бұрын

@@manubhatt3 it wouldn’t be for someone who wasn’t taught like that

To people in west it may seem weird, but from our perspective using stuff like sharp metal forks and knives, that can even kill people, in your mouth!? That seems a lot more weird.

and BBC pulled Caste into food too 😂😂

@itachi_terabapp

Жыл бұрын

😂

That's South Indian style, North & Northeast have different styles, BBC bs media should know

is uncle ka koi school me admission krao.... inke dimag se caste system nikal nhi raha hai 😳

@panderichthys_rhombolepis

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think you have understood what Dr. Dalal, the anthropologist, is saying: He is making the case that eating with ones hands like we do in India is what people all over the world have done for the longest time -- and it is perfectly appropriate. He says that cutlery was a very recent European introduction to the dining scene.

The comments from non natives are ridiculous. It's your own hand! Do you not have soap back home? How do you eat burgers, fries, nachos etc? Without washing your hands? Licking food off your elbow is just disgusting though. Never seen anyone do that.

@kittenmimi5326

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah do those people not know how to wash their hand? Do they carefully cut their burger with fork n knife? And in these usually the palm isnt even used its just the fingers and then so you never lick the palm or wrists. Maybe some people lick the tip of their finger only

@windshearahead7012

Жыл бұрын

There’s food that can’t be eaten with utensils, like burgers or fries. And then there’s food that CAN. Like rice. This thing at 2:11 is simply pointless. He’s grabbing the whole rice with his bare hand and squishing it into a snowball for no damn reason. Like use a fork and eat it

@AsterFoz

Жыл бұрын

I don't eat burgers at all and nachos I've only seen in tv. I simply don't use hands to eat anything what will leave my hands sticky, greasy etc. A sandwitch won't do this so i use a hand. A pizza will, so I use knife and fork. It's just so simple. And that doesen't mean i don't have soap. I have, just like I have a dish washer and dish washing liquid so I can wash my hands AND my cutlery without making everything sticky.

@bean2872

Жыл бұрын

@@AsterFoz pfft

@violakarl6900

Жыл бұрын

​@@windshearahead7012 burger can be eaten with cutlery

During an epidemic, it is necessary to change traditions and eat with a spoon, because it is not always possible to wash your hands.

Access to different foods WAS limited. 😂

It's easy to eat fish with chopsticks and keep hands clean

Using untesils to optimize all the meat in the fish is also a SKILL.

@panderichthys_rhombolepis

2 жыл бұрын

And a POINTLESS one at that. Thank you.

@sarahsarah0923

2 жыл бұрын

@@panderichthys_rhombolepis pointless how ..?

@sagniksingha

2 жыл бұрын

@@sarahsarah0923 please try to eat Hilsa fish like that. Let me know how it goes.

@sarahsarah0923

2 жыл бұрын

@@sagniksingha ??????

@sagniksingha

2 жыл бұрын

@@sarahsarah0923 If you know what Hilsa fish is then you know.

That’s cool and all but not if you’re a plumber like myself lol.

@kevinfernandez9999

Жыл бұрын

Plumber don't wash hands?

@AsterFoz

Жыл бұрын

@@kevinfernandez9999 I can imagine that during work water in building can be turned off and it's simply impossible to wash hands to eat something during a break. And in all other situations I bet you had situations that washing hands disn't remove the smell. And e. coli don't have a smell and it's even more difficult to get rid of.

Athu vichaarichu alcohol and smokingum culturil ulpedutharuthu

Don’t think I’ve ever eaten any of these foods, but I would like to. Tho with the amount of germs I know are on hands even if you don’t wipe with it, my god licking the fingers sounds gross So long as they wash their hands well I’m down with it

@carolinecharly-yw1cl

Жыл бұрын

Wash your hands, is it that hard to you guys to even wash the hands? Well licking the fingers is not gross, we do that at the end of the meal, just before washing our hands.

@aswathik4709

11 ай бұрын

Washing hands before having food is common sense. And yes Indians do have common sense

@casedistorted

11 ай бұрын

I meant REALLY wash your hands, like scrub them hard and for at least 20-30 seconds. Most Adults I see and know don't even do that properly. Half the time I see people in the Men's Washroom/Bathroom use the toilet and then spritz their hands quickly with water, it would not surprise me for people to not wash their hands well before eating. Scrubbing like a Nurse would, or food preparer who doesn't use gloves (I have worked at food establishments where we don't use gloves to make food for people so learning to wash the hands very well is important, unlike places that let you wear gloves so you don't do it before putting on the gloves and then contaminate the gloves too).@@aswathik4709

@sonjaholden2866

10 ай бұрын

You've never licked your fingers after eating chips? Was there germs on your hands then

😮 Indjans do not drink soup esp Hot soups. Steamboat cooking at the table is very popular in cold season in China - not possible in India 🎉🎉🎉