Disposable finger tongs for handling a food product

Disposable finger tongs comprising:

• at least one folded or layered sheet of disposable flexible, non-rigid material having first and second pockets connected at proximal ends thereof by a connecting tab;
• said pockets having openings adapted to receive fingers or a thumb of a user therein for grabbing a food material;
• one of said pockets receiving the fingers of a user inside of the respective pocket and the other pocket receiving the thumb of the user inside of the other respective pocket;
• said first and second pockets being soft to grasp and manipulate the contour, texture and shape of the article of food being grasped;
• opposite sides of said pockets having food facing contact surfaces;
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• at least one utensil slidably insertable within a utensil insertion guide physically located out of at least one of said pockets;
• said disposable finger tongs further comprising one or more peripheral sides of said tongs have a bonded or unbonded soft free serrated edge that will not irritate the fingers, lips or inside mouth of the user;
• each said soft free serrated edge having irregular free ends extending only outward beyond a peripheral seal of said disposable finger tongs, said peripheral seal extending only along said peripheral edge of said disposable finger tongs, said soft free edge further comprising at least a portion of said peripheral edge of said disposable finger tongs, each of said finger and thumb stalls and said connecting tab includes said free edges extending beyond said peripheral sealed edge of said disposable finger tongs, wherein said respective soft, irregular, non-smooth sealed peripheral edges are provided as outwardly extending irregular freely extending soft peripheral edges, which extend outwardly away from the peripheral sealed edge or edges of said finger tongs, and thereby providing a an injury preventive soft, irregular non-sooth sealed finished peripheral edge of said disposable finger tongs to prevent paper cuts on the fingers, thumb or mouth of the user.

Disposable finger tongs comprising:

• at least one folded or layered sheet of disposable flexible, non-rigid material having first and second pockets connected at proximal ends thereof by a connecting tab portion covering at least a portion of the palm of the hand of the user;
• an opening on an outer surface of each of said pockets with said openings facing said connecting tab, said pockets adapted to receive fingers or a thumb of a user for grabbing a food material;
• opposite sides said pockets being food facing grabbing surfaces;
• and,
• at least one of said pockets having at least one in situ texturized sticker, said in situ texturized sticker being texturized on said food grabbing side of said at least one in situ texturized sticker;
• said at least one in situ texturized sticker having a central patch of adhesive adherable in situ to said food grabbing surface of said at least one pocket of said finger tongs, said at least one in situ texturized sticker having one or more free edges extending cantilevered outward from said central patch of adhesive;
• permitting said cantilevered free outer edges of said in situ texturized sticker to pivot about said central patch of adhesive, while contacting food under in situ conditions, without ripping respective paper portions of said at least one pocket of said finger tongs.