> ... It's fairly obvious if a piece of sushi should be approached by the
> fingers or hashi. Mostly, I use hashi because I'm a neat
and clean kind of
> guy. What I won't do is shove a whole god-damned piece in my mouth like the
> Japanese insist on doing. Such savagery ...

I guess I never thought of that, maybe so. There is just something in that culture not good about consuming rice - actually -while you're consuming something else (similarly fermented? that is not rice) at the same time. No. No chop sticks. I remember that I was always swiftly shown that Hashi and Sushi don't mix, something like that you know... like using a fork for drinking water with-your-fingers-on-the-glass kind of thing, ha, ha.