It's about fried chicken

[Roadside Attraction]

Senator Gillibrand -- at a rally in SC -- asked an aide if she should eat fried chicken with a fork or her fingers . . . the decision was fingers.

Then -- the Twitter universe went batshit because she asked a perfectly reasonable question.

No one seems to be concerned about this:

[BigmanPigman]

1. Lawrwnce O'Donnell said it is the media and pundits who make this seem like

an issue so ignore them. It is more BS that is meaningless.

[RockRaven]

2. It's different on a plane like Trump. If a politician is eating at a PUBLIC appearance,

then using utensils instead of their fingers is quite pragmatic no matter how elitist or prissy or effete it might seem BECAUSE THEY ARE SHAKING EVERYONE'S HANDS. Forgetting for a minute the health of the candidate, who shook 20, or 50, or 100 people's hands on their way into the establishment,... do you want to shake the hand of someone who just ate fried chicken, before they've had a chance to wash them? You like a greasy handshake? Really?

[CentralMass]

3. There was an ordinance passed in Gainsville Georgia in 1961 that makes eating fried chicken with a

knife and a fork a crime.

People take their fried chicken very seriousely in the south .

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Trump's from Queens and eats pizza with utensils.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-sarah-palin-pizza-fail-knives-forks/story?id=13743490

[jcmaine72]

5. If I were Trump's cardiologist.....

I'd advise him to eat a bucket of fried chicken every day and wash it down with two quarts of buttermilk.

[Sancho]

6. I grew up in the South...and was subject to motherly rules...

First, if it's a bunch of guys or informal family, anything goes...
but if you are at some kind of formal, debutant, wedding thing, "the only time you use your fingers are shrimp with tails and small sandwiches on trays". Frankly, if dinner is KFC you are already in the "anything goes" category! Of course you may need to save the buckets and clean them up to pass around at revivals.

I don't know if it's just the South, but we had some interesting rules from Dad too:
"You can drink (alcohol) at any age if there's no woman within 50 miles who knows you."