Do you know how to eat with Chopsticks?

[zoltanspawn]

^Velcro is your friend.

 

[bankside]

Even though I live in an Asian country, I still do not know how to eat with chopsticks. When I do use chopsticks, something like this usually happens:

I have no desire to learn how to use a chopstick. I tried and I still suck at it.

^This is more of an example against knitting needles than eating with chopsticks. I'll show you how if you like

...actually....
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNl8MMAr0lM[/ame]

 

[Ram]

Bankside, didn't your momma tell you not to make clothes with your food?

 

[bankside]

Bankside, didn't your momma tell you not to make clothes with your food?

naw she's one of those old-fashioned up-tight white ladies who is too busy trying to knit a sweater using proper white-people cutlery. total helicopter parent.

still though you should see what she can do with a ball of angora wool and some silverware.

 

[seven2go]

^ ²

 

[ShihTzuTylenol]

I can't or rather, I refuse to eat Chinese, Japanese, Thai, etc. without my chopstix... I'm weird that way. Like I hate eating KFC without my fingers...

which reminds me of a joke I made up --> Yo'mama so poor she gotta lick other people's fingers at KFC

...but seriously though, I do know how to eat with chopsticks.

 

[Ganoderma]

Yes.

I am a white guy (born and raised in The Netherlands). Somewhere in the second half of the seventies, my Dutch friends have learned me to eat with chopsticks whilst eating food over here in The Netherlands.

I have visited various parts of China, just as a tourist. We have eaten in a variety of places, including in food stalls and in restaurants where people were not used to see white people. During these visit to China, I always try to use chopsticks.

I have experienced that this is a nice way to make contact with Chinese people. Quite a few Chinese people (the ones who have never been outside China, and hardly ever see white people) are extremely curious to see how I am able to use chopsticks. No big deal for them to stare at me (us). No need to be scared. Why?

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I tend to think that 'JohannBessler' has never visited China, nor any country in Africa.

I would like to suggest 'JohannBessler' to pay a visit to China, and get an idea how Chinese people cope with food, and with eating food / having lunch and dinner etc. China is a huge country, so I would also like to suggest him to visit various parts of China.

I would also like to suggest 'JohannBessler' to visit at least 2 different African countries, as Africa has alot of variation. I would like to suggest that he should start in Ethiopia. Ethiopia has almost everything what Africa might be able to offer you. A few years ago I have visited Ethiopia for around one month, and we have visited large parts of the country.

Injera.

Besides that, I know an excellent restaurant in Tema. It is called 'Agbamami Chop Bar'. For sure, JohannBessler' would like it over there, especially on Sunday. They serve excellent fufu and banku.

Best wishes.

 

[Beachguyj]

But, chopsticks are only usable for food that is served in small pieces.

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They should be called unchop sticks.

 

[MoltenRock III]

6) Americans don’t travel.

This stereotype is true. Americans don’t travel overseas as much as Brits, Dutch, Germans, Canadians or Scandinavians. There are some good reasons for this (big country, short vacation time) and bad ones (fear and ignorance). We don’t have a gap year culture like they have in the UK and we don’t tend to take vacations longer than a week. I can’t think of a single place I visited where I met Americans in numbers anywhere close to our relative population.

times.

Thus is true, and tragic. Making excuses for why it is that way, is still just that. Excuses. Willful ignorance and incuriosity are the worst traits to exhibit IMHO, but that didn't stop one from becoming President as GW Bush demonstrated.

 

[MoltenRock III]

MR3, aren't Asians who think forks are barbaric just as witless as Anglos who think chopsticks are? I feel like I'm not picking up the nuances of your anecdote.

Have you ever traveled to Asia or Europe?

 

[MoltenRock III]

MoltenRock, in this day and age, too many Americans are financially strapped to be able to go.

The people in the top 1% live in such a bubble, that they don't seem to know what's going on in the bottom 99%. Americans are struggling just to survive.

Bullshit! Even as the economy has boomed Americans refused to travel or make it a priority. Instead, most were fixated on buying ever larger homes, further away in the 'burbs from work, thus needing to spend even more burning fossil fuel.

 

[Swellegant]

Why travel? Everyone comes here and brings their culture with them.

 

[MoltenRock III]

Why travel? Everyone comes here and brings their culture with them.

LOL! True. After all just go to Las Vegas or DisneyWorld, it's all been created.

 

[bankside]

Have you ever traveled to Asia or Europe?

Both.

That doesn't change the barbarism or naïveté of an asian person who is startled by the sight of a north american using chopsticks.

 

[seven2go]

Bullshit! Even as the economy has boomed Americans refused to travel or make it a priority. Instead, most were fixated on buying ever larger homes, further away in the 'burbs from work, thus needing to spend even more burning fossil fuel.

Going by the above why the hell WOULD Americans want to travel? To run into some damn anti-American attitude? Bullshit to that too.
We live where we LIVE......NOT where we travel......where I LIVE is more important than where I might choose to travel.

By the way........the last time I checked jets burn fossil fuel......in VAST quantities.......AND......if you think the American economy is booming you are way misinformed.

 

[zoltanspawn]

Have you ever traveled to Asia or Europe?

Yes, but I've never experienced any scorn for my cutlery...and if anyone were to express a sentiment about the barbarity of forks I'd reply appropriately. I tend to think xenophobia is the exception, not the rule. I dunno...maybe I'm just lucky?

 

[MoltenRock III]

Going by the above why the hell WOULD Americans want to travel? To run into some damn anti-American attitude? Bullshit to that too.
We live where we LIVE......NOT where we travel......where I LIVE is more important than where I might choose to travel.

By the way........the last time I checked jets burn fossil fuel......in VAST quantities.......AND......if you think the American economy is booming you are way misinformed.

LMAO! Said by a "true" American.

They hate us for our freedom, too. More Kool-Aid?

 

[Ram]

I don't know how a topic on chopsticks can lead to such fuckery.


<edit> lmao, tombastep, we were thinking the same thing.

 

[MoltenRock III]

Yes, but I've never experienced any scorn for my cutlery...and if anyone were to express a sentiment about the barbarity of forks I'd reply appropriately. I tend to think xenophobia is the exception, not the rule. I dunno...maybe I'm just lucky?

*sigh*

No, they weren't making fun of him. The anecdote was about exposing a never-traveled-before, white majority, dude, into a culture where he was the minority and how quickly he got mad or flustered by being in the minority himself for once.

 

[bankside]

*sigh*

No, they weren't making fun of him. The anecdote was about exposing a never-traveled-before, white majority, dude, into a culture where he was the minority and how quickly he got mad or flustered by being in the minority himself for once.

See that's funny because I read it as his asian hosts getting flustered and perplexed at something completely ordinary, which is a north american who is cultured enough to know how to eat with utensils that match the dish he was served. I thought they looked looked like the fools and your colleague looked calm cool and collected.

But it's your anecdote....I'll take your word for it.