"Casa estilo antiguo" > wrote in message
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> 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. 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.
>>
>> They don't eat Chinese food.
>
> HUH?!?!?!
>


That was a big old dose of smart ass. That's what that was.