Serene Vannoy wrote:
> Bob Terwilliger wrote:
>> Becca wrote (I started a new thread):
>>
>>> My mother never allowed us children to eat with our hands. We had
>>> to use utensils, if we wanted to eat. Her mother was the same way,
>>> and she was French. I wondered where this came from. It is still
>>> difficult for me to
>>> eat foods like hot dogs or pizza, without using a fork.
>>
>> Ribs, tacos, egg rolls, and hot dogs are NOT AS GOOD if you don't
>> eat them with your hands. Sushi is MEANT to be finger food; eating
>> sushi with chopsticks is a sign of cultural ignorance.
>
> Really? I never saw anyone in Tokyo eating sushi with their hands,
> only with chopsticks. And I've never seen this assertion before.

But then you, probably, have actually been there)