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Why cant you eat chicken with a fork?

Did a 91-year-old woman really get arrested for eating fried chicken with a fork?

Why cant you eat chicken with a fork?

Posted at 3:12 PM, Dec 06, 2018

and last updated 2018-12-06 18:14:14-05

Did a 91-year-old woman really get arrested for eating fried chicken with a fork?

Yes, but it was a prank.

The law does exist though.

In 1961, Gainesville, Georgia passed a measure making it illegal to eat fried chicken with anything other than your hands.

It was a publicity stunt to promote the city as the “poultry capital of the world.”

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Do you eat chicken wings with a fork?

Those two foods are typically consumed by using your hands instead of utensils. Maybe boneless wings (depending whether or not you consider them “wings”) can be eaten with a knife and fork but for bone-in wings, you gotta use your hands.

What state can you not eat chicken with a fork?

Weird law in Georgia, its illegal to eat fried chicken for a fork.

Can I eat chicken with a fork?

At a formal dinner, chicken is eaten with a knife and fork. Table manners for eating chicken at an informal meal. At an informal meal, the knife and fork are used to remove as much meat from the main body as possible; to eat the rest of the meat the bones are held with fingers and taken with the teeth.

Is it illegal to eat chicken with a fork in America?

According to a Gainesville proclamation passed in 1961 designed to promote Gainesville as a poultry center, it's illegal to eat fried chicken with a fork. In 2009, a woman was arrested as a practical joke for violating the law, but was later pardoned.