Serene Vannoy wrote:
> Ophelia wrote:
>> 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)
>>
>>
>
> Yep, but only for three weeks, and one of those weeks was spent in an
> international work camp and nature preserve, so I'm certainly not an
> expert on Japanese culture or anything.

Well you have done more than I have The furtherest from home I have been
was India and I lived there on and off.