bob wrote:

>
> LOL. Back in the days when a 50 cent cup of Ramen or was the main
> meal of the day, I sometimes felt like eating my chopsticks too ...

Well, that probably would have fulfilled your minimum recommended daily
requirement for fiber. I'm surprised that the eminently practical
Japanese haven't come up with the edible chopstick.

>
>> Some chopsticks used to come with a little toothpick in the paper sleeve
>> although those are rare these days. If you happen to get one of these,
>> the toothpick might have a little knobby thing on the end. That part is
>> meant to be broken off and used as a little chopstick rest so you can
>> lay the chopsticks on the table without the ends touching the surface.
>
> That's going back a bit! I'd forgotten about those little chopstick
> rests, but you'd get them back in the late-sixties when I lived in
> Hawaii. I have more "formal" rests I use at the table at home ... a
> few antique porcelain rests I found in a antique shop and some wood
> rests that came with some Japanese chopstick sets I bought last time
> we visited my Hawaiian ohana.
>

Those are pretty cute. They look like little dumbbells. I'm sure they'd
be too classy for the folks out here, at least, I've never seen one of
those actually being used.

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