| Eating “finger food” with
a fork and a knife is not an abnormal thing in western society. In
fact many people have the habit of eating everything with some form of
cutlery. Some of these people are trying to get rid of the habit but
feel bound by the power of the fork and knife, others do it for pure
enjoyment, and still others eat like that to be annoying. When Steve
Criss from New York was asked why he ate everything with a fork and knife
he replied, “Forks and Knives it’s a way of live for some but for others
likes me they’re a curse. Since the age of 12 for 37 years I’ve used
them and I can’t stop. The habit and the power of them is to great
for me; it’s hard to admit but I am addicted to the use of them.
I’ve tried everything from melting all the cutlery in my home to going to
a psychiatrist to try and get me to stop, but nothing helps I will be like
this for the rest of my life a retched trapped man.” Steve has
worked as a chief at the Franchester Hotel for most of his life and even
though this fork and knife issue is a problem for him he credits it for
his life long job and success. When Stacey Gofter form Toronto
Canada was asked the same question she replied in a different way, “I love
my fork, I love my knife, and I even love my spoon. People say I’m
crazy, others thing I’m weird, but I don’t care because if I did I would
starve. I have not eaten any food with my hands in 10 years.
How can people stand it? Touching your food is grouse, just think of
all the bacteria on your hands. My close friends have tied me up and
dumped food of every kind all over me so I looked like a big piles pig
slop and forced me to eat some of it all in the name of trying to make me
normal. No one will ever change me!” Later this year Stacey’s
“close friends” found a small group of people like her that are in a
special kind of addiction braking accountability group. The group
has had little success on any of it members. George Rath from Las
Angelas, California states when he was asked why he ate with a fork and
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knife, “I eat with them not because I like it but because my parents don’t. So in other words I do it to be dishonoring and rebellious. When my parents either die or not care any more I will stop then. People make fun of me about it and that is the only down side about rebelling in this way, but it so worth it. May be though, I should of become a vegetarian that would do the trick with not down side.” George is 22 and has been eating with a fork and knife for 8 years. Bob Martian from channel 5 News has a brother named Ray that had a fork and knife addiction. When asked how he felt about his brother’s problem he broke down in tears and said, “I love my brother but we have to be tough he can’t go through life addicted like that, it’s just not right. His fork and knife thing is worse than smoking or drugs at leased there is people to help and know what to do. I myself can’t stand cutlery now, I eat everything with my hands. This causes much quarrelling between him and me. We never eat food when the other is around. It’s weird to think that he just started one day no one noticed at first until it became a problem. Ray would bring his cutlery with him every where. All as I can say is that I hate his habit and that if there is some one that knows how to cure him look me up.” Ray had been addicted for 15 years and has tried the self help book call Finger Food live with it, love it, eat it the book has made little progress in his life. So as you can see from the evidence of these people’s testimonies eating all foods including finger food with a fork and knife is not uncommon. A government survey done in 2000 said that over 200, 000 people in the United States have this mental problem. Some of them are trying to quit, while others friend and family are making quit. They’re attempting this with accountability groups, self-help books, and pure force, but generally have little success. Maybe instead of trying to change these people we should accept how they act and live with it.
By Nicholas Erho
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