On 2018-01-09 10:15 PM, cshenk wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> I learned how to use them so early, I only recall my brother and sister
> laughing with our Mom as we ate the rare takeout and part of the treat,
> was to eat with them. Mom suspended her normal 'polite eating' rules
> and we were to put our faces over our plates so any food dropped hit
> there to be gathererd back in next try. Good chance I was 3-4 then.
>
> The fact that I many decades later moved to asia for a bit is
> irrelevant. I learned this skill as a very young child.
>
> I have always looked at it as pure fun! Later, I learned it can be
> more efficient as well with some foods and that using the longer ones
> as tongs in cooking works very well.


I still think it peculiar the white people use chopsticks only when
eating Chinese and a couple other Asian foods. You see them trying to
eat steamed or fried rice with chop sticks, but not risotto.
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