My finger food
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_food
Finger food is food meant to be eaten
directly using the hands, in contrast to food
eaten with a knife and fork,
chopsticks, or other
utensils.
In some cultures, food is almost always eaten with the hands; for
example, Ethiopian
cuisine is eaten by rolling various dishes up in injera bread.[2]
In the South Asian subcontinent, food is traditionally always eaten
with hands. Foods considered street foods
are frequently, though not exclusively, finger foods.
In the Western world, finger foods are often either appetizers
(hors d'oeuvres)
or entree/main course items.
In the Western world, examples of generally accepted finger food
are miniature beef pies, sausage rolls,
sausages on sticks, cheese and olives on sticks, chicken drumsticks
or wings,
spring rolls,
miniature quiches, samosas, sandwiches, Merenda or
other such based foods, such as pitas or items in
buns, bhajjis, potato wedges,
vol au
vents, several other such small items and risotto balls (arancini). Other
well-known foods that are generally eaten with the hands include
pizza, hot
dogs, fruit and bread.[3]
Dessert items such as cookies, pastries, ice cream in cones, or ice
pops are often eaten with the hands but are not, in common
parlance, considered finger foods. In East Asia, foods like
pancakes or flatbreads (bing 饼) and street foods such as
kebabs (chuan 串) are often eaten with the hands.
