On 1/11/2018 12:39 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "U.S. Janet B." > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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.Â* 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.Â* 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!Â* 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!Â* I hadn't realized that black people never used chopsticks
>> when eating Chinese food.
>
> They don't eat Chinese food.

HUH?!?!?!

Are you serious?????