On Aug 1, 10:16�am, "kilikini" > wrote:
> Michael "Dog3" wrote:
> > Blinky the Shark >
> >news > > rec.food.cooking
>
> >> Bob Terwilliger wrote:
>
> >>> Becca wrote (I started a new thread):
>
> >>>> My mother never allowed us children to eat with our hands. We had
> >>>> to use utensils, if we wanted to eat. Her mother was the same way,
> >>>> and she was French. �I wondered where this came from. �It is still
> >>>> difficult for me to eat foods like hot dogs or pizza, without using
> >>>> a fork.
>
> >> What did you use to eat potato chips? �Popcorn? �m&ms? �Did you have
> >> to cut big pickles with a knife and eat the pieces with a fork?
>
> > Certain snack foods we were allowed to eat with the hands... Chips and
> > popcorn being 2 of them. �OTOH, we had to eat fried chicken with a
> > knife and fork.
>
> > Michael
>
> I don't eat fried chicken anymore, but I *always* ate it with a knife and
> fork. �Remember? �I'm the one who hates to get her fingers dirty. �:~)

Hmm... if it's dirty for your fingers then why isn't it dirty in your
mouth... just askin'. hehe

"kilikini" > wrote in
. com:

> I don't eat fried chicken anymore, but I *always* ate it with a knife
> and fork. Remember? I'm the one who hates to get her fingers dirty.
> :~)
>
> kili
>

they sell latex gloves. So a nice juicy mango wouldn't be on your diet
cause the juices would drip all over your hand/face?

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

Abe wrote:

> >> > Miss Manners says it's okay to do finger food at home, among your
> >> > close family, but that utensils should always be used at other
> >> > times.
> >
> >> She obviously never ate at a crab shack or fried chicken joint.
> >
> > Nonsense. Miss Manners is quite practical. Those places are by their
> > nature informal dining. For the most part, you don't serve such
> > things at a formal or semi-formal dinner.
>
> Who said anything about formality? It says right above "utensils
> should always be used at other times." That sounds pretty much like an
> absolute rule about eating out to me.

Where did you see Miss Manners say that?




Brian

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On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:34:59 -0700, "Bob Terwilliger"
> wrote:

>Regarding the issue that James mentions, the best quote I've seen is, "We
>Chinese prefer not to do butchery at the table," i.e., the Chinese regard
>cutting up meat as butchery.

I wish they would "butcher" into smaller pieces. I want bite sized,
not 'two bite' sized pieces. I hate nibbling on something while
desperately clamping onto it with chopsticks (waving to Lin), trying
my best not to let it slip and fall on my shirt.

As far as noodles. They are my worst enemy. I don't eat long noodles
with a fork in public, let alone chopsticks. Any dish with a long
noodle is delivery only for me.

I don't do bones either (unless it's one of those falling off the bone
dishes like short ribs).


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

> wrote:

>As far as noodles. They are my worst enemy. I don't eat long noodles
>with a fork in public, let alone chopsticks. Any dish with a long
>noodle is delivery only for me.

It's reasonably easy to transfer them to a soup spoon
using chopsticks and then eat them without slurping.

What are difficult to eat neatly are *short* noodles.

Steve

sf wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:34:59 -0700, "Bob Terwilliger"
> > wrote:
>
>> Regarding the issue that James mentions, the best quote I've seen
>> is, "We Chinese prefer not to do butchery at the table," i.e., the
>> Chinese regard cutting up meat as butchery.
>
> I wish they would "butcher" into smaller pieces. I want bite sized,
> not 'two bite' sized pieces. I hate nibbling on something while
> desperately clamping onto it with chopsticks (waving to Lin), trying
> my best not to let it slip and fall on my shirt.
>
> As far as noodles. They are my worst enemy. I don't eat long noodles
> with a fork in public, let alone chopsticks. Any dish with a long
> noodle is delivery only for me.
>
> I don't do bones either (unless it's one of those falling off the bone
> dishes like short ribs).

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:58:28 +0000 (UTC), (Steve
Pope) wrote:

> wrote:
>
>>As far as noodles. They are my worst enemy. I don't eat long noodles
>>with a fork in public, let alone chopsticks. Any dish with a long
>>noodle is delivery only for me.
>
>It's reasonably easy to transfer them to a soup spoon
>using chopsticks and then eat them without slurping.

Tried that once. What a mess. The dry cleaner loved me though.
>
>What are difficult to eat neatly are *short* noodles.
>

Short noodles are my friend in an Italian restaurant.





--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

sf wrote:

>
> I wish they would "butcher" into smaller pieces. I want bite sized,
> not 'two bite' sized pieces. I hate nibbling on something while
> desperately clamping onto it with chopsticks (waving to Lin), trying
> my best not to let it slip and fall on my shirt.
>

Ooops, I hit send before I replied! What I meant to say was this is
something that drives me nuts, too, sf. Even sushi rolls are a little bit
big for chopsticks because they're always a 2 biter for me. I do eat egg
rolls with chopsticks and I do okay with those, but when you get huge chunks
of chicken in a stir-fry or large pieces of fish in a meal that's already
cut up, how much extra time does it take to cut those chunks a tad smaller?

True, I've been known to eat ribs with chopsticks, sausage with chopsticks
(and, yes, I don't like sausage, but I'll eat it to be polite if it's
served), tofu, fried fish, soybeans, peanuts, wontons, potstickers, salad -
but I have never tried a taco. <g> I was also thinking, how about trying
to eat a slice of pizza with chopsticks? Fold the slice over and hold it in
between the two sticks? It could work! :~)

kili

On 31 Jul 2008 20:14:13 GMT, Default User wrote:

> Abe wrote:
>
>
>>> Miss Manners says it's okay to do finger food at home, among your
>>> close family, but that utensils should always be used at other
>>> times.
>
>
>> She obviously never ate at a crab shack or fried chicken joint.
>
> Nonsense. Miss Manners is quite practical. Those places are by their
> nature informal dining. For the most part, you don't serve such things
> at a formal or semi-formal dinner. On the other hand, asparagus is a
> finger food regardless of formality.
>

i have to agree. besides being practical, miss manners is a smart cookie.

your pal,
blake

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:58:01 -0700, Abe wrote:

>>Bob Terwilliger wrote:
>>> Becca wrote (I started a new thread):
>>>
>>>> My mother never allowed us children to eat with our hands. We had to use
>>>> utensils, if we wanted to eat. Her mother was the same way, and she was
>>>> French. I wondered where this came from. It is still difficult for
>>>> me to
>>>> eat foods like hot dogs or pizza, without using a fork.
>>>
>>> Ribs, tacos, egg rolls, and hot dogs are NOT AS GOOD if you don't eat them
>>> with your hands. Sushi is MEANT to be finger food; eating sushi with
>>> chopsticks is a sign of cultural ignorance.
>>
>>Really? I never saw anyone in Tokyo eating sushi with their hands, only
>>with chopsticks. And I've never seen this assertion before.
>>
>>Serene
> Yeah, Bob's got some bad info regarding sushi eating etiquette. I've
> also heard that same bad info passed around before on the Web and
> poorly researched food shows.

<jams fingers in ears>

i can't hear yoouuu!

your pal,
blake

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:00:14 -0500, Mike Beede wrote:

> In article >,
> "Bob Terwilliger" > wrote:
>
>> Sushi is MEANT to be finger food; eating sushi with
>> chopsticks is a sign of cultural ignorance.
>
> Boy, there seem to be a lot of culturally ignorate
> Japanese in the world.
>
> Mike Beede

no wonder they lost the war.

your pal,
blake

blake replied to Mike:

>>> Sushi is MEANT to be finger food; eating sushi with
>>> chopsticks is a sign of cultural ignorance.
>>
>> Boy, there seem to be a lot of culturally ignorate
>> Japanese in the world.
>
> no wonder they lost the war.

There are culturally ignorant people *everywhere*. Americans don't have any
kind of monopoly on the phenomenon. Sure, there are plenty of Japanese who
have never been taught sushi tradition and etiquette. That's why videos like
this exist:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b75cl4-qRE

Bob, hoping nobody takes that video seriously