On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:26:59 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>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.
>>

good info! I hadn't realized that black people never used chopsticks
when eating Chinese food.