Boodle fight
A boodle fight, in the context of Filipino culture, is the military practice of eating a meal.

Etymology
Sources indicate that the term "boodle" is American military slang for contraband sweets such as cake, candy and ice cream. A "boodle fight" is a party in which boodle fare is served. The term may have been derived from "kit and caboodle"; caboodle is further derived from boodle or booty.

Table manners
A boodle fight is a meal that dispenses without cutlery and dishes. Diners instead practice kamayan, Filipino for "eating with the hands". The food is placed on top of a long banana leaf-lined trestle table and in the true military practice, diners do not sit in chairs but instead stand shoulder to shoulder in a line on both sides of the table.  

A senior officer or enlisted personnel then utters the traditional command for the boodle fight to begin:

"Ready on the left,
 Ready on the right,
 Commence boodle fight!"

Common Dishes 
There are no set rules in what dishes are served in a Boodle Fight but the most popular ones are the dry dishes like fried dried fish like tuyo, danggit, and pusit.  Breakfast meats are also popular like tocino, longaniza and tapa but the favorite ones are the charcoal grilled meats like fish, chicken and pork.  

Fruits are served to act as a balancer to the salty and oily viands so it’s very usual to see pineapples and mangoes, there are also some vegetable salads and pickled vegetables like itlog na maaalat, talong, okra, atchara to name some. That does not stop there some also add deep fried items like lumpia, fried fish, fried chicken then to top it all up, rice and noodles are also served as a carbohydrate source.