Stuff and Moonshine

Asparagus is a finger food, by me. As long as it's not served covered in dressing, you just pick it up by the cut end, flavor the tip, and eat down the stalk until you're done or it's too tough to bite easily, whereupon you wipe your fingers on a napkin. You could cut it into short sections and eat the sections with a fork, but there's no good reason to do that. It'd be like being served corn on the cob and laboriously cutting all the kernels off and eating them with a fork (which people also do, it's just not expected of them when corn is served).